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Large Eddy Simulations of gaseous flames in gas turbine combustion chambers

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In this article, two types of LES in complex geometry combustors and of specific interest for aeronautical gas turbine burners are reviewed: (1) laboratory-scale combustors, without compressor or turbine, in which advanced measurements are possible and (2) combustion chambers of existing engines operated in realistic operating conditions.
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This article is published in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.The article was published on 2012-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 396 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Combustion chamber & Combustor.

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Prediction and control of combustion instabilities in real engines

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present recent progress in the field of thermoacoustic combustion instabilities in propulsion engines such as rockets or gas turbines, and show that LES is not sufficient and that theory, even in these complex systems, plays a major role to understand both experimental and LES results and to identify mitigation techniques.
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Dynamics of Swirling Flames

TL;DR: In this paper, a discussion of the swirl number, a parameter that plays a central role in the definition of the flow structure and its response to incoming disturbances, is presented, where the interaction between the swirler response and incoming acoustic perturbations generates a vorticity wave convected by the flow.
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Oxy-fuel combustion of pulverized fuels: Combustion fundamentals and modeling

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a state-of-the-art review and an in-depth discussion of pulverized fuels (PF) oxy-fuel combustion fundamentals and their modeling, which underpin the development of this promising technology.
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Large-eddy simulation: Past, present and the future

TL;DR: Large-eddy simulation (LES) was originally proposed for simulating atmospheric flows in the 1960s and has become one of the most promising and successful methodology for simulation of turbulent flows with the improvement of computing power as mentioned in this paper.
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Identification of Flame Transfer Functions From LES of a Premixed Swirl Burner

TL;DR: In this paper, large eddy simulations of compressible, turbulent, reacting flow were carried out in order to identify the Flame Transfer Function (FTF) of a premixed swirl burner at different power ratings.
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Unsteady flow evolution in swirl injectors with radial entry. II. External excitations

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of externally impressed excitations on the unsteady flow evolution in a gas-turbine swirl injector were investigated by imposing periodical oscillations of the mass flow rate at the entrance over a wide range of frequencies.
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Large-eddy simulation of a bi-periodic turbulent flow with effusion

Abstract: Large-eddy simulations of a generic turbulent flow with discrete effusion are reported. The computational domain is periodic in both streamwise and spanwise directions and contains both the injection and the suction sides. The blowing ratio is close to 1.2 while the Reynolds number in the aperture is of order 2600. The numerical results for this fully developed bi-periodic turbulent flow with effusion are compared to available experimental data from a large-scale spatially evolving isothermal configuration. It is shown that many features are shared by the two flow configurations. The main difference is related to the mean streamwise velocity profile, which is more flat for the bi-periodic situation where the cumulative effect of an infinite number of upstream jets is accounted for. The necessity of considering both sides of the plate is also established by analysing the vortical structure of the flow and some differences with the classical jet-in-crossflow case are highlighted. Finally, the numerical results are analysed in terms of wall modelling for full-coverage film cooling. For the operating point considered, it is demonstrated that the streamwise momentum flux is dominated by non-viscous effects, although the area where only the viscous shear stress contributes is very large given the small porosity value (4%).