Annular Instabilities and Transient Phenomena in Gas Turbine Combustors

Project Information

ANNULIGhT

Grant agreement ID: 765998

DOI

10.3030/765998

Project closed

EC signature date 17 August 2017

Start date 1 October 2017

End date 31 January 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 3 974 482,80

EU contribution

€ 3 974 482,80

Coordinated by

NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
Norway

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Deliverables

Other (6)

Public dissemination plan

Public dissemination plan. Identify public engagement opportunities, organization of public talks/seminars, look for opportunities to engage in public dicourse on energy policy to raise public awareness of challenges of efficient transport and sustainable energy and the role of ANNULIGhT. Organisation of two network wide public events.

Publications and attendance at international conferences

Publications and attendance at international conferences throughout the whole project duration.

Completion of ESR research projects and PhDs
TDIBC routines for integration into AVBP

Testcompare the predicted sensitivities on simple cases Build TimeDomain Impedance Boundary Conditions TDIBCs for implementation into AVBP from a state space model of combustor plenum acoustics

Network conferences

Network conferences in M12 and 24. In person communication and information transfer between partners, and industry.

Progress report:Yearly progress and financial reports

Annual progress and financial reporting in M13, 24, 36, 48. A progress report which highlights the progress of the network during the first year must be provided. A template should be asked to the PO if not yet available in the system.

Documents, reports (3)

Validation of advanced combustion models for ignition and lean extinction

Numerical simulations of ignition and extinction for premixed as well as for liquid spray injectors and with strong mean azimuthal swirl for annular combustors in T3.1. Development and validation of combustion models used in the LES will be undertaken, thickened flame model (CERFACS), CMC (UCAM) and FTACLES (CNRS).

Heat release response to active modification of acoustic boundary conditions

Investigations into asymmetric heat release rate on the behaviour of azimuthal modes

Development of adjoint equations and testing using simple Helmholtz solvers

Derived adjoint equations of Helmholtz solvers with distributed heat release and acoustic impedance boundary conditions. Test/compare the predicted sensitivities on simple cases.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Establish website & secure portal

Establish network website/secure portal/eRoom. Promote use of the project website/portal, blended learning, regular reporting of results, communication and information transfer between partners, and industry.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (38)

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

Swirler effects on combustion instabilities analyzed with measured FDFs, injector impedances and damping rates

Author(s): P. Rajendram Soundararajan, D. Durox, A. Renaud, G. Vignat, S. Candel,
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 238, 2022, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111947

Low-Order Modeling of Can-Annular Combustors

Author(s): Guillaume J. J. Fournier; Maximilian Meindl; Camilo F. Silva; Giulio Ghirardo; Mirko Bothien; Wolfgang Polifke
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Issue 143/12, 2021, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4051954

Effect of Different Fuels on Combustion Instabilities in an Annular Combustor

Author(s): Preethi Rajendram Soundararajan, Guillaume Vignat, Daniel Durox, Antoine Renaud, Sébastien Candel
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Issue 143/3, 2021, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4049702

Improvement of lean blow out performance of spray and premixed swirled flames using nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges

Author(s): Guillaume Vignat, Nicolas Minesi, Preethi Rajendram Soundararajan, Daniel Durox, Antoine Renaud, Victorien Blanchard, Christophe O. Laux, Sébastien Candel
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Issue 38, 2020, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2020.06.136

Analysis of flame propagation mechanisms during light-round in an annular spray flame combustor: the impact of wall heat transfer and two-phase flow

Author(s): K. Töpperwien, S. Puggelli, R. Vicquelin
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 241, 2022, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112105

The effect of dynamic operating conditions on the thermoacoustic response of hydrogen rich flames in an annular combustor

Author(s): Thomas Indlekofer, Abel Faure-Beaulieu, Nicolas Noiray, James Dawson
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 223, 2021, Page(s) 284-294, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.10.013

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

Protection and Identification of Thermoacoustic Azimuthal Modes

Author(s): G. Ghirardo, F. Gant, F. Boudy, M. R. Bothien
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Issue 143/4, 2021, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4049909

Effects of liquid fuel/wall interaction on thermoacoustic instabilities in swirling spray flames

Author(s): E. Lo Schiavo, D. Laera, E. Riber, L. Gicquel, T. Poinsot
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 219, 2020, Page(s) 86-101, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.04.015

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

Author(s): Ahn, Byeonguk; Indlekofer, Thomas; Dawson, James; Worth, Nicholas
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

Modeling the nonlinear aeroacoustic response of a harmonically forced side branch aperture under turbulent grazing flow

Author(s): Tiemo Pedergnana, Claire Bourquard, Abel Faure-Beaulieu, Nicolas Noiray
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 6/2, 2021, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.6.023903

Low-order modelling of the light-round ignition transient in a premixed annular combustor

Author(s): Roberto Ciardiello, Leo C. C. Mesquita, Epaminondas Mastorakos
Published in: Combustion Theory and Modelling, 2022, ISSN 1364-7830
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1080/13647830.2022.2027524

Dynamics of spray and swirling flame under acoustic oscillations : A joint experimental and LES investigation

Author(s): Guillaume Vignat, Ermanno Lo Schiavo, Davide Laera, Antoine Renaud, Laurent Gicquel, Daniel Durox, Sébastien Candel
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Issue 38, 2020, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2020.05.054

Large-Eddy Simulation of Flame Dynamics During the Ignition of a Swirling Injector Unit and Comparison With Experiments

Author(s): Karl Töpperwien, Félix Collin-Bastiani, Eleonore Riber, Bénédicte Cuenot, Guillaume Vignat, Kevin Prieur, Daniel Durox, Sébastien Candel, Ronan Vicquelin
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Issue 143/2, 2021, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4049297

Reheat flames response to entropy waves

Author(s): Francesco Gant, Birute Bunkute, Mirko R. Bothien
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2020, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2020.05.007

Representing the geometrical complexity of liners and boundaries in low-order modeling for thermoacoustic instabilities

Author(s): C. Laurent, A. Badhe, F. Nicoud
Published in: Journal of Computational Physics, Issue 428, 2021, Page(s) 110077, ISSN 0021-9991
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2020.110077

Shape Optimization of Thermoacoustic Systems Using a 2D Adjoint Helmholtz Solver

Author(s): Stefano Falco, Matthew Juniper
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2020, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4049305

Imperfect symmetry of real annular combustors: beating thermoacoustic modes and heteroclinic orbits

Author(s): Abel Faure-Beaulieu, Thomas Indlekofer, James R. Dawson, Nicolas Noiray
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 925, 2021, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.649

Whistling of deep cavities subject to turbulent grazing flow: intermittently unstable aeroacoustic feedback

Author(s): Claire Bourquard, Abel Faure-Beaulieu, Nicolas Noiray
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 909, 2021, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.984

A Strategy to Tune Acoustic Terminations of Single-Can Test-Rigs to Mimic Thermoacoustic Behavior of a Full Engine

Author(s): Matthias Haeringer, Guillaume J. J. Fournier, Max Meindl, Wolfgang Polifke
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Issue 143/7, 2021, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4048642

Flame response to transverse velocity excitation leading to frequency doubling and modal coupling

Author(s): Naman Purwar, Matthias Haeringer, Bruno Schuermans, Wolfgang Polifke
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 230, 2021, Page(s) 111412, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111412

On the importance of time delay and noise in thermoacoustic modeling

Author(s): Francesco Gant, Giulio Ghirardo, Mirko R. Bothien
Published in: Journal of Sound and Vibration, Issue 501, 2021, Page(s) 116067, ISSN 0022-460X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2021.116067

Effect of spark location and laminar flame speed on the ignition transient of a premixed annular combustor

Author(s): Roberto Ciardiello, Pedro M. de Oliveira, Aaron W. Skiba, Epaminondas Mastorakos, Patton M. Allison
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 221, 2020, Page(s) 296-310, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.08.001

Occurrence of multiple flame fronts in reheat combustors

Author(s): Francesco Gant, Alessandro Scarpato, Mirko R. Bothien
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 205, 2019, Page(s) 220-230, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.04.013

Experimental assessment of the lean blow-off in a fully premixed annular combustor

Author(s): R. Ciardiello, A.W. Skiba, R.L. Gordon, E. Mastorakos
Published in: Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Issue 112, 2020, Page(s) 109994, ISSN 0894-1777
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2019.109994

Symmetry breaking of azimuthal waves: Slow-flow dynamics on the Bloch sphere

Author(s): Abel Faure-Beaulieu, Nicolas Noiray
Published in: Physical Review Fluids, Issue 5/2, 2020, ISSN 2469-990X
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevfluids.5.023201

Low order modelling of thermoacoustic instabilities and intermittency: Flame response delay and nonlinearity

Author(s): Giacomo Bonciolini, Abel Faure-Beaulieu, Claire Bourquard, Nicolas Noiray
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 226, 2021, Page(s) 396-411, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.12.034

A massively parallel accurate conservative level set algorithm for simulating turbulent atomization on adaptive unstructured grids

Author(s): Janodet, R., Guillamón, C., Moureau, V., Mercier, R., Lartigue, G., Bénard, P., Ménard, T., Berlemont, A
Published in: Journal of Computational Physics, Issue 458, 2022, ISSN 0021-9991
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111075

Development and validation study of a 1D analytical model for the response of reheat flames to entropy waves

Author(s): Francesco Gant, Andrea Gruber, Mirko R. Bothien
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 222, 2020, Page(s) 305-316, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.09.005

Effect of an Azimuthal Mean Flow On the Structure and Stability of Thermoacoustic Modes in an Annular Combustor Model with Electroacoustic Feedback

Author(s): Sylvain C. Humbert, Jonas Moeck, Alessandro Orchini, Christian Oliver Paschereit
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2020, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4048693

A Joint Experimental and LES Characterization of the Liquid Fuel Spray in a Swirl Injector

Author(s): Vignat Guillaume, Preethi Rajendram Soundararajan, Daniel Durox, Aymeric Vié, Antoine Renaud, Sebastien Candel
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Issue 143, 2021, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4049771

Nonlinear analysis of self-sustained oscillations in an annular combustor model with electroacoustic feedback

Author(s): Sylvain C.Humbert, Fabio Gensini, Antonio Andreini, Christian O.Paschereit, Alessandro Orchini
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Issue 38, 2021, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2020.06.154

On the impact of fuel injection angle in Euler–Lagrange large eddy simulations of swirling spray flames exhibiting thermoacoustic instabilities

Author(s): E. Lo Schiavo, D. Laera, E. Riber, L. Gicquel, T. Poinsot
Published in: Combustion and Flame, Issue 227, 2021, Page(s) 359-370, ISSN 0010-2180
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.01.009

Low-Order Modeling to Investigate Clusters of Intrinsic Thermoacoustic Modes in Annular Combustors

Author(s): Guillaume J. J. Fournier, Matthias Haeringer, Camilo F. Silva, Wolfgang Polifke
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Issue 143/4, 2021, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4049356

Experiments and low-order modelling of intermittent transitions between clockwise and anticlockwise spinning thermoacoustic modes in annular combustors

Author(s): Abel Faure-Beaulieu, Thomas Indlekofer, James R. Dawson, Nicolas Noiray
Published in: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2020, ISSN 1540-7489
Publisher: Combustion Institute
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2020.05.008

Ignition Probability and Lean Ignition Behaviour of a Swirled Premixed Bluff-Body Stabilised Annular Combustor

Author(s): Roberto Ciardiello, Rohit Pathania, Patton Allison, Pedro M. de Oliveira, Epaminondas Mastorakos
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2020, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4048461

Comparison of Model Order Reduction Methods in Thermo-Acoustic Stability Analysis

Author(s): Purwar, Naman; Meindl, Maximilian; Polifke, Wolfgang
Published in: Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Issue 144/2, 2022, ISSN 0742-4795
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4052096

Conference proceedings (8)

Low-order modelling of ignition in annular combustors

Author(s): L.C.C. Mesquita, R. Ciardiello, E. Mastorakos
Published in: Proceedings of the ETMM13, 2021
Publisher: University of Cambridge
DOI: 10.17863/cam.76577

Autoignition flames transfer matrix modeling

Author(s): F. Gant, M.R. Bothien
Published in: 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 2019
Publisher: The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration

Low-Order Modeling of Can-Annular Combustors

Author(s): Fournier, Guillaume J. J.; Meindl, Max; Silva, Camilo F.; Ghirardo, Giulio; Bothien, Mirko R.; Polifke, Wolfgang
Published in: Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2020: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, Issue GT2021-58947, 2021, ISBN 978-0-7918-8494-2
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/GT2021-58947

Prediction of the nonlinear response of an acoustically forced flow with linearized Navier-Stokes equations

Author(s): Faure, Abel; Bourquard, Claire; Noiray, Nicolas
Published in: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics : integrating 4th EAA Euroregio 2019 : 9-13 September 2019 in Aachen, Germany, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: RWTH
DOI: 10.18154/rwth-conv-239157

Numerical and Experimental Flame Stabilization Analysis in the New Spinning Combustion Technology Framework

Author(s): Agostinelli, Pasquale Walter; Kwah, Yi Hao; Richard, Stephane; Exilard, Gorka; Dawson, James R.; Gicquel, Laurent; Poinsot, Thierry
Published in: Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2020: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, Issue Paper No: GT2020-15035, V04AT04A058; 13 pages, 2020
Publisher: ASME
DOI: 10.1115/GT2020-15035

Low-Order Modeling to Investigate Clusters of ITA Modes in Annular Combustors

Author(s): Guillaume J.J. Fournier, Matthias Haeringer, Camilo F. Silva, Wolfgang Polifke
Published in: Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2020: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, 2020
Publisher: ASME
DOI: 10.1115/gt2020-15985

Building Lagrangian Injectors from resolved primary atomization simulations. Application to jet in crossflow fuel injection

Author(s): C. Guillamón, R. Janodet, L. Voivenel, R. Mercier, V. Moureau
Published in: ICLASS 2021 - 15th Triennal International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, 2021
Publisher: ICLASS
DOI: 10.2218/iclass.2021.5841

Effect of Different Fuels on Combustion Instabilities in an Annular Combustor

Author(s): Preethi Rajendram Soundararajan; Guillaume Vignat; Daniel Durox; Antoine Renaud; Sébastien Candel
Published in: Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2020: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, Issue GT2020-16902, 2020
Publisher: ASME
DOI: 10.1115/gt2020-16092