Abstract
A major uncertaincy, when designing combustors is the influence of geometrical patterns of the design on the combustion noise generated. In order to determine the mechanisms and processes that influence the noise generation of flames with underlying swirling flows, a new burner has been designed, that offers the possibility to vary geometrical parameters. Experimental data (flow field, noise emission) have been determined for this burner. In addition, Large Eddy Simulations (LES) have been performed to study the isothermal and reacting flow of the burner. The results of the measurements show a distinct rise of the sound pressure level, obtained by changing the test setup from the isothermal to the flame configuration as well as by varying geometrical parameters, which is also resembled by the LES simulation results. A physical model has been developed from experiments and verified by the LES simulation, that explains the formation of coherent flow structures and allows to separate their contribution to the overall noise emission from ordinary turbulent noise sources. The computed isothermal and reacting flow fields have been discussed through flow visualization; the computed acoustic pressure has been compared with the experiment and it showed good agreement.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bai T, Cheng, XC, Daniel BR, Jagoda JI, Zinn BT (1993) Vortex shredding and periodic combustion processes in a Rijke type pulse combustor, Combustion Science Technology, 94, 245-258
Bamberger A (2004) Vortex sound of flutes observed with Particle Image Velocimetry. ICA conference, Kyoto
Bender C, Büchner H (2005) Mechanismen der Lärmentstehung in freibrennenden und eingeschlossenen Drallflammen, VDI-Berichte: 22. Deutscher Flammentag-Verbrennung und Feuerungen, 1888, 311-317
Bender C, Büchner H 2005) Noise emissions from a premixed swirl combustor, Proceedings of Twelfth International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV 12), CD-ROM.
Beer JM, Chigier NA (1972) Combustion aerodynamics, Applied Science Publisher, London
Brick H, Piscoya R, Ochmann M, Költzsch P (2005) Prediction of the Sound Radiated from Open Flames by Coupling a Large Eddy Simulation and a Kirchhoff-Method. Proc. Forum Acusticum, 85-89, Budapest
Bui TP, Schröder W, Meinke M (2007) Acoustic perturbation equations for reacting flows to compute combustion noise. International Journal of Aeroacoustics, volume 6, nr.4
Bui TP, Meinke M, Schröder W (2004) A Hybrid Approach to Analyze the Acoustic Field Based on Aerothermodynamic Effects. Proc. Joint Congress CFA/DAGA’04, Strasbourg, France, 121-122
Büchner H (1992) Entstehung und theoretische Untersuchungen der Entstehungsmechanismen selbst-erregter Druckschwingungen in technischen Vormisch-Verbrennungssystemen, PhD Thesis, University of Karlsruhe
Büchner H, Lohrmann M (2003) Coherent Flow Structures in Turbulent Swirl Flames as Drivers for Combustion Instabilities. Proc. Intern. Colloquium on Combustion and Noise Control
Cabana M, Fortune V, Jordan P (2006) A look insight the Lighthill source term. 12th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference. Cambridge, MA, USA, AIAA-2006-2484
Catlin J B, Day W H, Goom K (1999) The Pratt & Whitney Industrial Gas Turbine Product Line, Proc. of Power Gen Conference
Colin O, Ducros F, Veynante D, Poinsot T (2000) A thickened flame model for large eddy simulations of turbulent premixed combustion. Phys. Fluids. 12, 7
Duchamp de Lageneste L, Pitsch H (2001) Progress in large-eddy simulation of premixed and partially-premixed turbulent combustion. Center for Turbulence Research, Annual Research Briefs
Fröhlich J (2006) Large Eddy Simulation turbulenter Strömungen, ISBN-10 3-8351-0104-8
Gupta AK, Lilley DG, Syred N (1984) Swirl Flows, Abacus Press, Kent(U.K.)
Habisreuther P, Bender C, Petsch O, Büchner H, Bockhorn H (2004) Calculated and Measured Turbulent Noise in a Strongly Swirling Isothermal Jet, Proceedings Joint Congress CFA/DAGA, 1179-1180
Habisreuther P, Bender C, Petsch O, Buechner H, Bockhorn H (2006) Prediction of Pressure Oscillations in a Premixed Swirl Combustor Flow and Comparison to Measurements. Flow Turbulence and Combustion
Habisreuther P, Lischer T, Cai W, Krebs W, Zarzalis N (2007) Visualisation of statistically periodic coherent structures in turbulent flow using a phase locked averaging method. Progress in computational fluid dynamics
Hermesmeyer, Prade, Gruschka, Schmitz, Hoffmann and Krebs(2002) V64.3A Gas Burner Natural Gas Burner Development, Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo
Keck O, Meier W, Stricker W, Aigner M (2002) Establishment of a confined swirling natural gas/air flame as standard flame: Temperature and species distribution from laser Raman measure-ments, Combustion Science Technology, 174(8), 117-151
Kühlsheimer C, Büchner H (2002) Combustion Dynamics of Turbulent Swirling Flows, Combus-tion and Flame, 131 (1-2), 70-84
Leuckel W, Fricker N(1976) The characteristics of swirl-stabilized natural gas flames. Part I: Dif-ferent flame types and their relation to flow and mixing patterns, J. Inst. Fuel, 49, 103-112
Lighthill M J (1952) On sound generated aerodynamically I. General Theory. Proc. R. Soc. A211, 564-587
Lohrmann M, Büchner H (2000) Periodische Störungen im turbulenten Strömungsfeld eines Vor-misch-Drallbrenners, Chem.-Ing. Technik 72, 512-515
Pitsch H, Duchamp de Lageneste L (2002) Large-eddy simulation of premixed turbulent combustion using a level-set approach. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Volume 29
Roux S, Lartique G, Poinsot T, Meier U, Berat C (2005) Studies of Mean and Unsteady Flow in a Swirled Combustor using Experiments, Acoustic Analysis and Large Eddy Simulations. Combustion and Flame (141) S.40-54
Schadow K, Gutmark E, Parr T, Parr K, Wilson K, Crump J (1989) Large-scale coherent structures as drivers of combustion instability, Combustion Science Technology, 64, 167-186
Schmid H P, Habisreuther P, Leuckel W (1998) A Model for Calculating Heat Release in Premixed Turbulent Flames, Combustion and Flame 113, pp. 79-91
Selle L, Lartigue G, Poinsot T, Kaufmann P, Krebs W, Veynante D (2002) Large-eddy simulation of turbulent combustion for gas turbines with reduced chemistry. Center for Turbulence Research, Proceedings of the Summer Program
Smagorinsky J (1963) General circulation experiments with the primitive equations I: The basic experiment. Mon. Weather Rev. 91, 99-164
Wang P, Bai XS (2005) Large eddy simulation of turbulent premixed flames using level-set G-equation. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 30, 583-591
Zhang F, Habisreuther P, Hettel M, Bockhorn H (2008) Modeling of a Premixed Swirl-stabilized Flame Using a Turbulent Flame Speed Closure Model in LES. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, Accepted.
Ziegler G(1991) Entflammung magerer Methan/Luft-Gemische durch kurzzeitige Bogen- und Glimmentladung. PhD Thesis, University of Stuttgart
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the German Research Council (DFG) through the Research Unit FOR 486 ”Combustion Noise”.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Bender, C., Zhang, F., Habisreuther, P., Büchner, H., Bockhorn, H. (2009). Measurement and Simulation of Combustion Noise emitted from Swirl Burners. In: Schwarz, A., Janicka, J. (eds) Combustion Noise. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02038-4_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02038-4_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-02037-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-02038-4
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)