Accession Number:

ADP011162

Title:

Prediction of Combustion-Driven Dynamic Instability for High Performance Gas Turbine Combustors: Part I

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH TURBINE ENGINE DIVISION

Personal Author(s):

• Sekar, B.
• Mawid, M. A.
• Park, T. W.
• Menon, S.

Report Date:

2001-06-01

Pagination or Media Count:

17.0

Abstract:

This paper describes the development and application of a combined detailed three-dimensional large eddy simulation LES and one-dimensional analysis tool to predict and actively control combustion-driven dynamic instabilities in gas turbine combustors. The integration of detailed finite-rate kinetics into LES and use of In-situ Adaptive Tabulation ISAT to efficiently calculate multi-species finite-rate kinetics in LES along with the use of global kinetics in the one-dimensional analysis tool was demonstrated. The results showed that LES can be effectively used to simulate complex reacting flows in gas turbine combustors and to identify regions of combustion instabilities. The results also showed that the one-dimensional combustor analysis with global kinetics can then be used both to capture the combustor unstable modes of the predicted regions of instabilities and to actively control these instabilities. In particular, the results demonstrated that by modulating the primary fuel injection rates and the time-lag between the instant of fuel-air mixture injection and heat release, damping out the instabilities may be achieved.

Descriptors:

• *INSTABILITY
• *GAS TURBINES
• *EDDIES(FLUID MECHANICS)
• *FUEL AIR RATIO
• *COMBUSTION
• RELEASE
• KINETICS
• HEAT
• FUEL INJECTION
• THREE DIMENSIONAL
• ONE DIMENSIONAL
• SYMPOSIA
• COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• COMBUSTORS

Subject Categories:

• Hydraulic and Pneumatic Equipment
• Fluid Mechanics
• Jet and Gas Turbine Engines

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE