Rankine-Hugoniot Curve: CJ: Chapman Jouguet

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Rankine-Hugoniot Curve

detonation
upper CJ point

lower CJ point
deflagration

CJ: Chapman Jouguet

AE615 Fundamentals of Combustion

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o The propagation velocity vD, the density 2, and the pressure p2 in the
burnt gas can be calculated according to the theory of Chapman-Jouguet

where p1 and 1 are the pressure and density in the unburnt gas, q specific
heat of reaction and , ratio of the heat capacities at constant pressure
and volume

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Structure of detonation wave (1D)


Zeldovich, von Neumann and Dring (ZND) model

1: upstream condition
2: end of the leading shock
(immediately following the
shock front)
2: CJ point (end of
combustion zone)

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Combustion Instability

AE615 Fundamentals of Combustion

Combustion Instability
Injector face destroyed by combustion instability

Combustion instabilities in gas turbine engines


AE615 Fundamentals of Combustion

Combustion Instability
Undesired, instable combustion of sudden or periodic nature
o Combustion, turbulence, flow separation and other
fluid mechanical processes can produce
disturbances/oscillations in pressure, temperature,
velocity and species concentration
o The various sources of instabilities include: unsteady
strain rate, flame/vortex interactions, acoustic/flame
coupling, interactions of perturbed flame with
boundaries, flame response to incident composition
inhomogeneities
o These oscillations can grow with time to form limit
cycle oscillations with large amplitude
o The growth of oscillations due to interaction of the
disturbance with the combustion process is generally
termed as combustion instability

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Basic Problem

AE615 Fundamentals of Combustion

Basic interactions
leading to combustion
instabilities

Thermoacoustic interactions in gas turbine


combustors

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Combustion Instability

o Shear layers tend to be unstable and the unstable disturbances commonly


evolve and roll up to form vortices
Ref: Brown and Roshko (1974), JFM, Vol. 64, pp 775-816

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Phase locking of vortex shedding


and acoustics
o In non- reacting flow, vortices
act as sources or pressure
waves and will exchange energy
with an existing acoustic field
o When vortex shedding occurs in
a chamber, coupling with the
acoustic field tends to amplify
the amplitude of the pressure
oscillations when the shedding
and acoustic frequencies are
close

Ref: Smith, D (1985), PhD Thesis, Caltech.

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o In reacting flows, vortices may entrain unburnt reactants and cause


periodic (pulses) heat release
Ref: Schadow et al. (1989), Comb. Sci. and Tech., Vol. 64 (pp 167-186)

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