GALCIT Colloquium
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Combustion Dynamics in Propulsion Systems
Vigor Yang,
William R. T. Oakes Professor and Chair,
School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Unsteady flow oscillations in combustion devices, commonly known as combustion instabilities, were discovered in rocket and air-breathing engines at about the same time in the late 1930s. Since then, combustion instabilities have occurred in most, if not practically all, new development programs. Indeed, because of the high density of energy release in a volume having relatively low losses, conditions normally favor excitation and sustenance of flow oscillations in any combustion chamber intended for a propulsion system. This lecture will provide an overview of combustion instabilities in four different types of propulsion systems (i.e., solid-rocket, liquid-rocket, gas-turbine, and ramjet/scramjet engines). Emphasis will be placed on the state-of-the-art understanding and research needs and challenges. Various research issues in acoustics, fluid mechanics, and chemistry related to oscillatory combustion in practical systems will be discussed. Both passive and active control techniques will be covered. Applications of contemporary numerical schemes, approximate analytical methods, and experimental diagnostic tools to combustion instability studies will be addressed.
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Event Series
GALCIT Colloquium Series