A Short Course of Lectures
on
COMBUSTION INSTABILITIES IN LIQUID ROCKET ENGINES:
FUNDAMENTALS AND CONTROL
28-29 October 2002 @
ONERA
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- 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)

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