Abstract
Thermoacoustic instabilities occur when heat release is coupled with pressure fluctuation, which may cause performance degradation of the combustor and serious structural damage. This study focued on an active control method using discharge plasma and showed experimentally that discharge plasma can make a difference in controlling the thermoacoustic instabilities in a Rijke tube. A vertically placed Rijke tube thermoacoustic system using induction heating tungsten mesh as a heat source was built. The results show that the high repetition rate discharge can effectively suppress the thermoacoustic oscillations in the Rijke tube and that they will not re-occur for some time. Additionally, their effectiveness depended more on average power than energy per pulse. Combining the collected pressure, schlieren data, and theoretical analysis, it can be suggested that the plasma discharge could heat the inlet airflow, which could influence the heat exchange and then could break thermo-acoustic coupling, and its high-frequency pressure perturbation might increase the dissipation of the energy of sound.
Funder
State Key Laboratory of High Temperature Gas Dynamics
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