Influence of an acoustic field on flame development and transition to detonation

Abstract

The work is devoted to experimental and numerical study of flame interaction with acoustic waves in closed and semiclosed pipes filled with preliminarily mixed gaseous mixtures. We analyze the influence of eigenfield (generated by the flame itself) and external acoustic field on the flame dynamics. We show that acoustic field affects the combustion process at all stages. The effect increases with any increase in the energy of initiation of combustion. At later stages of flame development, acoustic waves can initiate the transition to detonation or prevent it. Thus, it is possible to control the combustion modes using external acoustic field.