Breaking the paradigm: A new approach to understanding and controlling combustion instabilities

Project Information

TAIAC

Grant agreement ID: 677931

DOI 10.3030/677931

Project closed

EC signature date 5 February 2016

Start date 1 September 2016

End date 31 August 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 929 103,26

EU contribution € 1 929 103,26

Coordinated by

NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
Norway

Publications

Conference proceedings (12)

Vortical structures of an axisymmetrically oscillating self-excited jet subjected to transverse acoustic forcing

Author(s): Abhijit Kumar Kushwaha, Nicholas Worth, James R Dawson, Larry KB Li
Published in: DFD2019 Meeting of The American Physical Society, 2019
Publisher: APS

Receptivity of a transversely forced jet

Author(s): Aguilar, Jose G.; Asoy, Eirik; Dawson, James; Worth, Nicholas
Published in: DFD2019 Meeting of The American Physical Society, Seattle USA, 2019
Publisher: APS

Influence of the burner swirl on the azimuthal instabilities in an annular combustor

Author(s): Marek Mazur, Håkon Nygård, Nicholas Worth, James Dawson
Published in: DFD17 Meeting of The American Physical Society, Issue November 2017, 2017
Publisher: APS

Azimuthally spinning wave modes and heat release in an annular combustor

Author(s): Håkon Nygård, Marek Mazur, James Dawson, Nicholas Worth
Published in: DFD17 Meeting of The American Physical Society, Issue November 2017, 2017
Publisher: APS

Transverse acoustic forcing of a round hydrodynamically self-excited jet

Author(s): Abhijit Kumar Kushwaha, Marek Mazur, Nicholas Worth, James Dawson, Larry Li
Published in: DFD17 Meeting of The American Physical Society, Issue November 2017, 2017
Publisher: APS

Near-field response of an axisymmetric jet to transverse acoustic forcing

Author(s): Dhiren Mistry, Øyvind Hanssen-Bauer, Nicholas Worth, James Dawson
Published in: 16th European Turbulence Conference, Issue August 2017, 2017
Publisher: European Mechanics Society

Experimental Study of Damper Position on Instabilities in an Annular Combustor.

Author(s): Marek Mazur, Håkon Nygård, James Dawson, Nicholas Worth
Published in: ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, Issue June 2018, 2018
Publisher: ASME

Recurrence analysis of a globally unstable jet subjected to transverse acoustic forcing

Author(s): Abhijit Kushwaha, Marek Mazur, Nicholas Worth, James Dawson, Larry Li
Published in: DFD18 Meeting of The American Physical Society, Issue November 2018, 2018
Publisher: APS

Azimuthal Instabilities of Non-swirling bluff body stabilised Methane/Hydrogen Flames in a Pressurized Annular Combustor

Author(s): Byeonguk Ahn, Thomas Indlekofer, Håkon Nygård, Girish Jankee, Dirren Govender, Nicholas Worth
Published in: APS Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting, November 2021, Phoenix, USA, 2021
Publisher: APS

Flame Transfer Functions and Dynamics of a Closely Confined Premixed Bluff Body Stabilised Flame With Swirl

Author(s): Håkon T. Nygård, Nicholas A. Worth
Published in: Volume 4A: Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions, 2020, ISBN 978-0-7918-8412-6
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/gt2020-15176

Bifurcating jet in transvere acoustic field

Author(s): Asoy, Eirik; Aguilar, Jose G.; Worth, Nicholas A.; Dawson, James R.
Published in: American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 2019, Seattle, USA, 2019
Publisher: APS

Three-dimensional Scanning Laser Induced Fluorescence for the investigation of flame dynamics on annular combustor instabilities

Author(s): Dirren Govender, Samuel Wiseman, James R Dawson, Nicholas Worth
Published in: APS Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting, November 2019, Seattle, USA, 2019
Publisher: American Physical Society

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Large volume scanning laser induced fluorescence measurement of a bluff-body stabilised flame in an annular combustor

Author(s): Dirren Govender, Samuel Wiseman, James Dawson, Nicholas Worth
Published in: Experiments in Fluids volume, Issue 63, 2022, ISSN 1432-1114
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-022-03406-9

Azimuthal flame response and symmetry breaking in a forced annular combustor

Author(s): Håkon T. Nygård, Giulio Ghirardo, Nicholas A. Worth
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 233, 2021, Page(s) 111565, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111565

Symmetry breaking modelling for azimuthal combustion dynamics

Author(s): Giulio Ghirardo, Håkon T. Nygård, Alexis Cuquel, Nicholas A. Worth
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2020, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2020.05.018

Tomographic reconstruction of an azimuthally forced flame in an annular chamber

Author(s): Dirren Govender, Hecong Liu, Fan Peng, Weiwei Cai, Nicholas Worth
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2022, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2022.08.051

Self-excited longitudinal and azimuthal modes in a pressurised annular combustor

Author(s): Marek Mazur, Yi Hao Kwah, Thomas Indlekofer, James R. Dawson, Nicholas A. Worth
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2020, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2020.05.033

The effect of hydrogen addition on the amplitude and harmonic response of azimuthal instabilities in a pressurized annular combustor

Author(s): Thomas Indlekofer, Byeonguk Ahn, Yi Hao Kwah, Samuel Wiseman, Marek Mazur, James R. Dawson, Nicholas A. Worth
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 228, 2021, Page(s) 375-387, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.02.015

Characterisation of flame surface annihilation events in self excited interacting flames

Author(s): Nicholas A. Worth, James R. Dawson
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 199, 2019, Page(s) 338-351, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2018.10.032

Large eddy simulation of CH4-air and C2H4-air combustion in a model annular gas turbine combustor

Author(s): N. Zettervall, N.A. Worth, M. Mazur, J.R. Dawson, C. Fureby
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Issue 37/4, 2019, Page(s) 5223-5231, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2018.06.021

Characteristics of self-excited spinning azimuthal modes in an annular combustor with turbulent premixed bluff-body flames

Author(s): Marek Mazur, Håkon T. Nygård, James R. Dawson, Nicholas A. Worth
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Issue 37/4, 2019, Page(s) 5129-5136, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2018.07.080

Flame dynamics of azimuthal forced spinning and standing modes in an annular combustor

Author(s): Håkon T. Nygård, Marek Mazur, James R. Dawson, Nicholas A. Worth
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Issue 37/4, 2019, Page(s) 5113-5120, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2018.08.034

Vortex dynamics of a jet at the pressure node in a standing wave

Author(s): Nicholas A. Worth, Dhiren Mistry, Tim Berk, James R. Dawson
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 882, 2020, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2019.821

Heat release rate response of azimuthal thermoacoustic instabilities in a pressurized annular combustor with methane/hydrogen flames

Author(s): Byeonguk Ahn, Thomas Indlekofer, James Dawson, Nicholas Worth
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 244, 2022, Page(s) 112274, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112274

Flame Transfer Functions and Dynamics of a Closely Confined Premixed Bluff Body Stabilized Flame With Swirl

Author(s): Håkon T. Nygård, Nicholas A. Worth
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Issue 143/4, 2021, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4049513

Transient Thermo-Acoustic Responses of Methane/Hydrogen Flames in a Pressurized Annular Combustor

Author(s): Byeonguk Ahn, Thomas Indlekofer, James Dawson, Nicholas Worth
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Issue 144/1, 2022, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4052259