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Professor Aimee S. Morgans

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor of Thermofluids
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9975a.morgans

 
 
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621City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Xia:2017:10.1007/s10494-017-9854-6,
author = {Xia, Y and Duran, I and Morgans, AS and Han, X},
doi = {10.1007/s10494-017-9854-6},
journal = {Flow, Turbulence and Combustion},
pages = {481--502},
title = {Dispersion of entropy perturbations transporting through an industrial gas turbine combustor},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10494-017-9854-6},
volume = {100},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - In the context of combustion noise and combustion instabilities, the transport of entropy perturbations through highly simplified turbulent flows has received much recent attention. This work performs the first systematic study into the transport of entropy perturbations through a realistic gas turbine combustor flow-field, exhibiting large-scale hydrodynamic flow features in the form of swirl, separation, recirculation zones and vortex cores, these being ubiquitous in real combustor flows. The reacting flow-field is simulated using low Mach number large eddy simulations, with simulations validated by comparison to available experimental data. A generic artificial entropy source, impulsive in time and spatially localized at the flame-front location, is injected. The conservation equation describing entropy transport is simulated, superimposed on the underlying flow-field simulation. It is found that the transport of entropy perturbations is dominated by advection, with both thermal diffusion and viscous production being negligible. It is furthermore found that both the mean flow-field and the large-scale unsteady flow features contribute significantly to advective dispersion — neither can be neglected. The time-variation of entropy perturbation amplitude at combustor exit is well-modelled by a Gaussian profile, whose dispersion exceeds that corresponding to a fully-developed pipe mean flow profile roughly by a factor of three. Finally, despite the attenuation in entropy perturbation amplitude caused by advective dispersion, sufficient entropy perturbation strength is likely to remain at combustor exit for entropy noise to make a meaningful contribution at low frequencies.
AU  - Xia,Y
AU  - Duran,I
AU  - Morgans,AS
AU  - Han,X
DO  - 10.1007/s10494-017-9854-6
EP  - 502
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1386-6184
SP  - 481
TI  - Dispersion of entropy perturbations transporting through an industrial gas turbine combustor
T2  - Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10494-017-9854-6
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/54052
VL  - 100
ER  -
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