Dynamics of azimuthal thermoacoustic modes in imperfectly symmetric annular geometries

Abstract

Using a nominally symmetric annular combustor, we present experimental evidence of a predicted spontaneous symmetry breaking and an unexpected explicit symmetry breaking in the neighborhood of the Hopf bifurcation, which separates linearly-stable azimuthal thermoacoustic modes from self-oscillating modes. We derive and solve a multidimensional Fokker-Planck equation to unravel a unified picture of the phase space topology. We demonstrate that symmetric probability density functions of the thermoacoustic state vector are elusive, because the effect of asymmetries, even imperceptible ones, is magnified close to the bifurcation.

arXiv comment6 pages, 5 figures

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