Investigation of Damping Methods for Augmentor Combustion Instability

Abstract

Absorbing liners or 'screech' liners are commonly used in the augmentors currently being proposed and developed can experience low frequency instabilities for which liners of conventional design are an impractical solution because of the unacceptably large volumes required for the linear resonator cavity. The objective of this program was to develop practical augmentor acoustic devices for controlling low frequency combustion instabilities. Analysis, supported by cold flow impedance experiments, indicated that dimpled array liners, i.e., liners with punched and therefore lengthened apertures, complex-porous liners having facings of two different porous materials in series, and acoustic energy absorbing flameholders could provide sufficient absorption.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0750902

Entities

People

  • Gary D. Garrison
  • J. Stettler
  • P. L. Russell

Organizations

  • Pratt & Whitney

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Impedance
  • Acoustic Properties
  • Acoustic Resistance
  • Creep
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Explosives
  • Heat Transfer
  • Ignition
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Porous Materials
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Recording Systems
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Transducers
  • Turbines
  • Turbojet Engines

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Military Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design