Measurements of Wall Heat Transfer in the Presence of Large-Amplitude Combustion-Driven Oscillations

Abstract

Two independent methods were used to measure the rate of heat transfer from a hot gas to the walls of a cylindrical combustion chamber in which large-amplitude combustion-driven oscillations accompanied a mean flow. The results obtained from the two methods were in good agreement and indicated a definite increase in the heat transfer in the presence of oscillations. The increase was found to vary approximately as the square root of the oscillation amplitude and as the fourth root of the frequency. A correlation in terms of dimensionless variables was obtained using the thickness of the acoustic boundary layer as the appropriate length scale.