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Recurrence network analysis exploring the routes to thermoacoustic instability in a Rijke tube with inverse diffusion flame.

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Inverse diffusion flame (IDF) is a reliable low NOx technology that is suitable for various industrial applications including gas turbines. However, a confined IDF may exhibit thermoacoustic instability, a kind… Click to show full abstract

Inverse diffusion flame (IDF) is a reliable low NOx technology that is suitable for various industrial applications including gas turbines. However, a confined IDF may exhibit thermoacoustic instability, a kind of dynamic instability, which is characterized by catastrophically large amplitude pressure oscillations. Transition to such instability for an inverse diffusion flame is less explored compared to other types of flame. In the present study, thermoacoustic instability in a Rijke tube with IDF is achieved by varying air flow rate and input power independently, and the onset of thermoacoustic instability is examined using the framework of recurrence network (RN). During the transition to thermoacoustic instability, we find new routes and two new intermediate states, here referred to as "amplitude varying aperiodic oscillations" and "low amplitude limit cycle-like oscillations." Furthermore, we show that recurrence network analysis can be used to identify the dynamical states during the transition to thermoacoustic instability. We observe an absence of a single characteristic scale, resulting in a non-regular network even during thermoacoustic instability. Furthermore, the degree distributions of RN during combustion noise do not obey a single power law. Thus, scale-free nature is not exhibited during combustion noise. In short, recurrence network analysis shows significant differences in the topological information during combustion noise and thermoacoustic instability for IDF with those for premixed flames, reported earlier.

Keywords: inverse diffusion; recurrence network; thermoacoustic instability; instability

Journal Title: Chaos
Year Published: 2021

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