Hydrodynamic instability and shear layer effect on the response of an acoustically excited laminar premixed flame

Schlimpert, Stephan and Hemchandra, Santosh and Meinke, Matthias and Schroeder, Wolfgang (2015) Hydrodynamic instability and shear layer effect on the response of an acoustically excited laminar premixed flame. In: COMBUSTION AND FLAME, 162 (2). pp. 345-367.

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Abstract

Combustion instabilities can cause serious problems which limit the operating envelope of low-emission lean premixed combustion systems. Predicting the onset of combustion instability requires a description of the unsteady heat release driving the instability, i.e., the heat release response transfer function of the system. This study focuses on the analysis of fully coupled two-way interactions between a disturbance field and a laminar premixed flame that incorporates gas expansion effects by solving the conservation equations of a compressible fluid. Results of the minimum and maximum flame front deflections are presented to underline the impact of the hydrodynamic instability on the flame and the shear layer effect on the initial flame front wrinkling which is increased at decreasing gas expansion. These phenomena influence the magnitude of the burning area and burning area rate response of the flame at lower frequency excitation more drastically than reduced-order model (ROM) predictions even for low temperature ratios. It is shown that the general trend of the flame response magnitudes can be well captured at higher frequency excitation, where stretch effects are dominant. The phase response is influenced by the DL mechanism, which cannot be captured by the ROM, and by the resulting discrepancy in the flame pocket formation and annihilation process at the flame tip. (C) 2014 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved,

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	COMBUSTION AND FLAME
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA
Keywords:	Combustion instabilities; Darrieus-Landau instability; Shear layer effect; Heat release response; Laminar premixed flames; Harmonic velocity excitation
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2015 12:37
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2015 12:37
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/50980

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