A treatment of the modal decomposition of the pressure field in a combustor as determined by two pressure time history measurements is developed herein. It is applied to a Pratt and Whitney PW4098 engine combustor over a range of operating conditions. For modes other than the plane wave the assumption is made that there are distinct frequency bands in which the individual modes, including the plane wave mode, overlap such that if circumferential mode m and circumferential mode m-1 are present then circumferential mode m-2 is not. In the analysis used herein at frequencies above the first cutoff mode frequency, only pairs of circumferential modes are individually present at each frequency. Consequently, this is a restricted modal analysis. As part of the analysis one specifies mode cut-on frequencies. This creates a set of frequencies that each mode spans. One finding was the successful use of the same modal span frequencies over a range of operating conditions for this particular engine. This suggests that for this case the cut-on frequencies are in proximity at each operating condition. Consequently, the combustion noise spectrum related to the circumferential modes might not change much with operating condition.


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    Title :

    Restricted Modal Analysis Applied to Internal Annular Combustor Autospectra and Cross-Spectra Measurements


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    Conference:

    27th AIAA Aeroacoustics Conference ; 2006 ; Cambridge, MA, United States
    12th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference ; 2006 ; Cambfidge, MA, United States


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    Publication date :

    2007-05-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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