CFD-based application of the Nyquist criterion to thermo-acoustic instabilities

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 6754-6778

  Kopitz, J ^a   Polifke, W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Control theory; Instabilities; Thermo acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONTROL THEORY; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; SYSTEM STABILITY; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ACOUSTIC SYSTEMS; ACOUSTICS MODEL; EIGEN MODES; LINEAR STABILITY; LOW ORDER; NYQUIST CRITERION; OPEN-LOOP TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; SELF - EXCITED; THERMO-ACOUSTICS; THERMOACOUSTIC INSTABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 44649103219     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.03.022     Document Type: Article

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