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A Study on Unsteady Responses of Flames - Calculation of Flame Transfer Function in a Subscale Combustor (화염의 비정상 응답 특성 연구-화염 전달 함수 산출)

  • Sohn, Chae Hoon;Guillaume, Jourdain;Kim, Young Jun
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2015.12a
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    • pp.107-108
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    • 2015
  • The acoustic optimization of a swirl coaxial jet injector mounted upstream a combustion chamber is investigated to tackle combustion instabilities. The least damped modes are extracted with the help of the dynamic mode decomposition (DMD). The sensitivity of the heat release perturbation to the velocity perturbation for the second longitudinal mode is investigated by combining the Crocco's equation and the inhomogeneous wave equation and computing the flame transfer function (FTF). DMD and FTF results agree in terms of the optimized injector length.

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Large Eddy Simulation of Swirling Premixed Flames in a Model Gas Turbine Combustor (모형 가스터빈 연소기에서 선회 예혼합화염의 대와동모사(LES))

  • 황철홍;이창언
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.34 no.7
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    • pp.79-88
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    • 2006
  • In the present paper, the swirl flow structure and flame characteristics of turbulent premixed combustion in a model gas turbine combustor are investigated using large eddy simulation(LES). A G-equation flamelet model is employed to simulate the unsteady flame behavior. When inlet swirl number is increased, the distinct flow structures, such as the shapes of corner recirculation and center toroidal recirculation zone, are observed and the flame length is shorted gradually. Also, the phenomena of flashback are identified at strong swirl intensity. In order to get the accurate description of unsteady flame behavior, the predictive ability of the acoustic wave in a combustor is primarily evaluated. It is found that the vortex generated near the edge of step plays an important role in the flame fluctuation. Finally it is examined systematically that the flame and heat release fluctuation are coupled strongly to the vortex shedding generated by swirl flow and acoustic wave propagation from the analysis of flame-vortex interaction.

A Study of Combustion Instability Mode according to the Variation of Combustor Length in Dual Swirl Gas Turbine Model Combustor (연소실 길이에 따른 이중선회 가스터빈 모델 연소기에서 연소불안정 모드 연구)

  • Jang, Munseok;Lee, Keeman
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2016
  • This study described the experimental investigations of combustion instability in a model gas turbine combustor. Strong coupling between pressure oscillations and unsteady heat release excites a self-sustained acoustic wave, which results in a loud and annoyed sound, and may also lead to a structural damage to the combustion system. In this study, in order to examine the combustion instability phenomenon of a dual swirling combustor configuration, the information of heat release and pressure fluctuation period with respect to the variation in both thermal power and combustor length was collected experimentally. As a result, the fundamental acoustic frequency turned out to increase with the increasing thermal power without respect to the combustor length. The frequency response to the combustor length was found to have two distinct regimes. In a higher power regime the frequency significantly decreases with the combustor length, as it is expected from the resonance of gas column. However, in a lower power regime it is almost insensitive to the combustor length. This insensitive response might be a result of the beating phenomenon between the interacting pilot and main flames with different periods.