THESE de DOCTORAT - cerfacs
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84 Chapter 5: Assessment of combustion noise in a premixed swirled combustor<br />
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Figure 5.13: Sound Pressure Levels from the direct and hybrid approaches<br />
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Figure 5.14: Sound Pressure Levels from the direct and hybrid approaches<br />
waves. Figure 5.15 shows the strongest acoustic wave, the quarter wave mo<strong>de</strong>, that resonates<br />
at 377 Hz. The pressure fluctuations along the axis of the combustor at different times within<br />
a cycle are plotted. As both methods yield the same envelope of variations at this frequency,<br />
the pressure fluctuation recovered by the direct computation can be seen as almost completely<br />
caused by acoustics.<br />
In Fig. 5.13 some zones of the spectrum still show differences between hybrid and direct computations.<br />
Let us focus on the low frequency zone of the spectra before the peak at 377 Hz. At<br />
this frequencies it is found that there is a significant hydrodynamic contribution in the direct<br />
computation that triggers higher pressure fluctuations. Figure 5.16 shows two interesting situations.<br />
The hybrid approach is based on the low Mach number assumption; in other words,<br />
the flow is consi<strong>de</strong>red stationary. Moreover, no strong gradients of the sound velocity ¯c are<br />
observed in the premixer region, which means that acoustic waves will propagate through this<br />
zone as if a quiescent medium was present. As a result, all acoustic mo<strong>de</strong>s of the chamber are<br />
excited when computing noise through the hybrid approach. Figure 5.16(a) shows that when<br />
consi<strong>de</strong>ring frequencies close to the first eigen-frequency of the system (240 Hz), the quarter<br />
wave mo<strong>de</strong> of the premixer is excited. Fluctuations of different nature are shown in Figure<br />
5.16(b) which illustrates LES results. Although there is a strong coherence of the pressure fluctuations<br />
in the chamber region, these fluctuations do not come from acoustics. Moreover, the<br />
strong level of turbulence present in the premixer region prevents any important acoustic os-