Laminar premixed flame response to equivalence ratio oscillations

Self-excited oscillations in low emission, premixed combustion systems are often caused by feedback between unsteady heat release rates and reactive mixture equivalence ratio perturbations. This paper presents an analysis of the flame response to equivalence ratio perturbations, showing that the heat release response is controlled by the superposition of three disturbances: heat of reaction, flame speed, and flame area. The first two...