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Analysis Of Combustion-Driven Acoustics, L Boshoff-Mostert, Hendrik J. Viljoen

Papers in Reaction Kinetics

Abstract-Combustion-driven acoustic oscillations are investigated by performing a onedimensional stability analysis of a burner-stabilized premixed flame. In contrast to other investigators, no initial acoustic wave is assumed in the analysis; the downstream acoustic field results from flame instability. Two models are considered: the thermodiffusive model (uncoupled model) and the fully coupled thermodiffusive-hydrodynamic model. The fully coupled problem exhibits instability at a much lower critical Lewis number than the uncoupled problem.