Mean-field synchronization model of turbulent thermoacoustic transitions

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العنوان: Mean-field synchronization model of turbulent thermoacoustic transitions
المؤلفون: Singh, Samarjeet, Roy, Amitesh, Dhadphale, Jayesh M., Chaudhuri, Swetaprovo, Sujith, Raman I.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Nonlinear Sciences
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Sciences - Pattern Formation and Solitons
الوصف: Thermoacoustic instabilities observed in turbulent combustion systems have disastrous consequences and are notoriously challenging to model, predict and control. Here, we introduce a mean-field model of thermoacoustic transitions, where the nonlinear flame response is modeled as the amplitude weighted response of an ensemble of phase oscillators constrained to collectively evolve at the rhythm of acoustic fluctuations. Starting from the acoustic wave equation coupled with the phase oscillators, we derive the evolution equations for the amplitude and phase and obtain the limit cycle solution. We show that the model captures abrupt and continuous transition to thermoacoustic instability observed in disparate combustors. We obtain quantitative insights into the model by estimating the model parameters from the experimental data using parameter optimisation. Importantly, our approach provides an explanation of spatiotemporal synchronization and pattern-formation underlying the transition to thermoacoustic instability while encapsulating the statistical properties of desynchronization, chimeras, and global phase synchronization. We further show using the model that continuous and abrupt transitions to limit cycle oscillations in turbulent combustors corresponds to synchronization transitions of \textit{second-order} and \textit{first-order}, respectively. The present formulation provides a highly interpretable model of thermoacoustic transitions: changes in empirical bifurcation parameters which lead to limit cycle oscillations amounts to an increase in the coupling strength of the phase oscillators, promoting global phase synchronization. The generality of the model in capturing different types of transitions and states of pattern-formation highlights the possibility of extending the present model to a broad range of fluid-dynamical phenomena beyond thermoacoustics.
Comment: Under review in JFM
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11550
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2208.11550
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv