Dynamic Response of Swirl Stabilized Turbulent Premixed Flames Based on the Helmholtz-Hodge Velocity Decomposition
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The dynamic response of fully premixed flames stabilized in strongly swirled flows undergoing vortex breakdown is investigated with axisymmetric unsteady RANS simulations. The analysis relies on the well known Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition of the velocity field into its irrotational and rotational components. A novel methodology based on the linearization of the progress variable transport equation is developed to determine the separate contribution of these velocity components to the Flame Transfer Function (FTF). Due to the phase delay between the convected tangential velocity and instantaneously propagating axial velocity perturbations, a non-monotonic frequency dependence of the swirl number amplitude downstream the swirl generator is detected. In line with experimental observations, such non-monotonic frequency dependence is found also for the amplitude and phase of the FTF. This behaviour is associated here with rotational velocity perturbations generated by the Central Recirculation Zone (CRZ) generated by the phenomenon of vortex breakdown which, responding in a fashion totally similar to the swirl number perturbation, produces flame surface area fluctuations with the same distribution versus frequency.
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