Premixed flame response to equivalence ratio perturbations

Combustion Theory and Modelling

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 681-714

  Shreekrishna, ^a   Hemchandra, Santosh ^a,b   Lieuwen, Tim ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Combustion instabilities; Equivalence ratio perturbations; Flame transfer function; Flame acoustic interactions; Premixed flames

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION INSTABILITIES; EQUIVALENCE RATIO PERTURBATIONS; FLAME TRANSFER FUNCTION; FLAME-ACOUSTIC INTERACTIONS; PREMIXED FLAME;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; DYNAMICS; EXPLOSIVES; SPEED; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE REACTIONS; SWIRLING FLOW; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 77957672063     PISSN: 13647830     EISSN: 17413559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13647830.2010.502247     Document Type: Article

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