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Self-excited vortex-acoustic lock-in in a bluff body combustor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2023

Abraham Benjamin Britto Open the ORCID record for Abraham Benjamin Britto [Opens in a new window]  and
Sathesh Mariappan Open the ORCID record for Sathesh Mariappan [Opens in a new window]
Abraham Benjamin Britto*
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
Sathesh Mariappan
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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†Email address for correspondence: abrahambenjamin229@gmail.com
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Abstract

We investigate self-excited vortex-acoustic lock-in in a bluff body combustor. The bluff body not only anchors the flame but also sheds vortices. Mutual interaction between vortex shedding and the combustor acoustic field leads to lock-in. A lower-order model for vortex shedding is coupled to the acoustic equations to obtain a set of discrete dynamical maps, which are then solved numerically. Lock-in is identified when a definite phase relationship between vortex shedding and acoustic field remains unaltered with time. The common frequency during (phase) lock-in is either close to the natural acoustic or vortex shedding frequencies, accordingly termed A- or V-lock-in, respectively. Instability and amplitude suppression occur with most parts of the A- and V-lock-in regions, respectively. Furthermore, we relate the lock-in and pre-lock-in regimes observed in our previous experiments (Singh & Mariappan, Combust. Sci. Technol., 2019, pp. 1–29) to A- and V-lock-in phenomena, respectively. Among the two lock-in phenomena, combustion instability is favoured by $1:1$ A-lock-in, whose boundaries in the parameter space can be obtained from a forced response of the vortex shedding process. Finally, we discuss the bifurcations leading to lock-in.

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Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Bifurcation Vortex Flows: Vortex shedding Acoustics: Aeroacoustics
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 975 , 25 November 2023 , A16
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