Combustion Instability


Combustion instability may lead high-frequency oscillation and detonation initiation as a consequence. Challenges are made for detailed understandings of the phoenomena.


1. Rocket combustor oscillation analysis

Non-linear pressure wave arises with the occurrence of local ignition

Tanabe et al. TRANS JSASS, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN,  Vol. 14 (2016)  No. ists30  p. Pa_1-Pa_6


2. Acoustically forced triple flame and its proper orthogonal mode analysis

A triple flame on a multi-slot burner with acoustic systems

POM analysis on the triple flame clarified the co-existence of two distinctive oscillation modes

  • translational mode frequency coincides with the acoustic frequency
  • frequency doubling is seen for the vibrational mode

Sugiu et al. TRANS JSASS, AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY JAPAN,  Vol. 14 (2016)  No. ists30  p. Pa_7-Pa_12


3. Baroclinic torque induced flame wrinkling

A spark-ignited flame propagates spherically in still mixture

  • standing acoustic field yielded flame wrinkling

Kusakawa et. al. ASPACC 2010, Hirosawa et. al., AIAA paper 2012-341