Prediction of Stability Limits of Combustion Chambers with LES

B. Pritz (), F. Magagnato () and M. Gabi ()
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B. Pritz: University of Karlsruhe, Department of Fluid Machinery
F. Magagnato: University of Karlsruhe, Department of Fluid Machinery
M. Gabi: University of Karlsruhe, Department of Fluid Machinery

A chapter in High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '11, 2012, pp 371-378 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Lean Premixed combustion, which allows for reducing the production of thermal NOx, is prone to combustion instabilities. There is an extensive research to develop a reduced physical model, which allows—without time-consuming measurements—to calculate the resonance characteristics of a combustion system consisting of Helmholtz resonator type components (burner plenum, combustion chamber). For the formulation of this model numerical investigations by means of compressible Large Eddy Simulation (LES) were carried out. In these investigations the flow in the combustion chamber is isotherm, non-reacting and excited with a sinusoidal mass flow rate. Firstly a combustion chamber as a single resonator subsequently a coupled system of a burner plenum and a combustion chamber were investigated. In this paper the results of additional investigations of the single resonator is presented. The flow in the combustion chamber was investigated without excitation at the inlet. It was detected, that the mass flow rate at the outlet cross section is pulsating once the flow in the chamber is turbulent. The fast Fourier transform of the signal showed that the dominant mode is at the resonance frequency of the combustion chamber. This result sheds light on a very important source of self-excited combustion instabilities. Furthermore the LES can provide not only the damping ratio for the analytical model but the eigenfrequency of the resonator also.

Keywords: Combustion Chamber; Large Eddy Simulation; Discrete Element Method; Resonance Characteristic; Combustion Instability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23869-7_27

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