Forced response of a swirling, premixed flame to flow disturbances

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1075-1084

  Bellows, Benjamin D ^a,b,c,d   Neumeier, Yedidia ^a,d,e   Lieuwen, Timothy ^a,d,e  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c PRATT AND WHITNEY   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e School of Aerospace Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMILUMINESCENCE; COMBUSTORS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FLAME RESEARCH; FLOW CONTROL; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OSCILLATIONS;

ACOUSTICS-HEAT-RELEASE; FORCING FREQUENCY; PARAMETRIC INSTABILITY; SWIRL-STABILIZED FLAMES;

SWIRLING FLOW;

EID: 33749465574     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.17426     Document Type: Article

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