Professor F. E. C. Culick
        California Institute of Technology, MC 205-45, Pasadena, CA 91125
     
fecfly@caltech.edu
   Tel: 626.395.4783
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Combustion Instabilities in Liquid Rocket Engines: Fundamentals and Control
ONERA, October 2002

  • Introduction & Outline (117 KB)
  • Section I Introduction & Historical Background (7,817 KB)
  • Section II Physical Characteristics & Elementary Interpretation of Combustion Instabilities (1,795 KB)
  • Section III Mechanisms of Instabilities in Liquid Rockets (7,966 KB)
  • Section IV Some Fundamentals of Acoustics (1,142 KB)
  • Section V The Rijke Tube: Simplest Example of Thermoacoustic Instabilities (424 KB)
  • Section VI Equations of Motion for Combustor Dynamics (328 KB)
  • Section VII Modal Expansion; Spatial & Time Averaging: An Iterative Method of Solution (206 KB)
  • Section VIII Linear Stability of Combustion Dynamics (533 KB)
  • Section IX Nonlinear Behavior (5,152 KB)
  • Section X Passive Control of Combustion Instabilities (1,721 KB)
  • Section XI Feedback Control of Combustion Instabilities (401 KB)
  • Section XII Measurement of Combustion Dynamics (2,933 KB)

Dynamics of Combustion Systems: Fundamentals, Acoustics, and Control
NASA Glenn Research Center, September 2001

This course was first assembled with support from the Department of Energy (Advanced Gas Turbine Research program, AGTSR) and in consultation with personnel at the United Technologies Research Center. It was subsequently given (September 2001) at the NASA Glenn Research Center.

  • Objectives & Outline (110 KB)
  • Section I Introduction & Historical Background (10,203 KB)
  • Section II Principles and Methods of Classical Control in the Frequency Domain (2,574 KB)
  • Section III Linear Control in State Space (339 KB)
  • Section IV Introduction to Thermodynamics, Chemical Thermodynamics, and Chemical Kinetics (1,218 KB)
  • Section V Fundamentals of Combustion Processes (6,928 KB)
  • Section VI Fundamentals of Acoustics (1,147 KB)
  • Section VI Linear and Nonlinear Combustion Instabilities (5,306 KB)
  • Section VIII Modal Control of Combustor Dynamics (402 KB)
  • Section IX Vortex Shedding and Control of Combustion Instabilities (3,436 KB)
  • Section X Measurements of Combustion Dynamics (3,289 KB)
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