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

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. See ADA395700. Presented at the RTO Applied Vehicle Technology Panel (AVT) Symposium on Active Control Technology for Enhanced Performance Operational Capabilities of Military Aircraft, Land Vehicles and Sea Vehicles (Technologies des systemes a commandes actives pour l'amelioration des performances operationnelles des aeronefs militaires, des vehicules terrestres et des vehicules maritimes) held in Braunschweig, Germany, on 8-11 May 2000 Published in RTO-MP-051, p19-1 to 19-16.