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n3l Summer School

TU Munich, Munich, Germany - June 2013

Matthew P. Juniper – Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis in Thermoacoustics
Video  (74:43)    |    PDF of Slides

Tim Lieuwen – Dynamics of Harmonically Excited Flames
Video  (1:14:43)    |    PDF of Slides

Nicolas Noiray – Effect of Combustion Noise on Thermoacoustic Limit Cycles
PDF Summary

Christian Oliver Paschereit: Singing Flames or: Is the Thermoacoustic Problem Solved
Video  (1:09:53)

Guillaume Penelet – Nonlinear Effects Saturating Wave Amplitude Growth in Thermoacoustic Prime Movers : A Review
Video  (1:16:42)    |    PDF of Slides

Ganesh Raman - Nonlinear Processes in Sound Generation and Flow/Acoustic Instabilities
Video  (1:20:44)

R. I. Sujith – Dynamical Systems Approaches to Combustion Instability
Video  (1:08:47)    |    PDF of Slides

Matthew Juniper Lecture Series

Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK - 2008 - 2013

Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis in Thermoacoustics (2013)
Video  (74:43)    |    PDF of Slides

Passive control and sensitivity analysis of thermo-acoustic systems via adjoint equations (2012)
Video  (25:37)

The nonlinear behaviour of a ducted premixed flame (a numerical study) (2012)
Video  (27:42)

Triggering in the horizontal Rijke tube: non-normality, transient growth and bypass transition (2012)
Video  (14:50)

Forcing of self-excited round jet diffusion flames (2008)
Video  (33:37)

The effect of confinement on the stability of the Rankine vortex with axial flow (2007)
Video  (18:47)

Lectures Series from the National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Film archive

This collection of 21 videos was created in the 1960/70s to explain fluid mechanics in an accessible way for undergraduate engineering and physics students and uploaded to YouTube by Barry Belmont in 2011, with accompanying notes from MIT.

1. Eulerian and Lagrangian Descriptions in Fluid Mechanics
Video  (26:59)    |    Notes

2. Deformation of Continuous Media
Video  (38:07)    |    Notes

3. Rheological Behavior of Fluids
Video  (22:24)    |    Notes

4. Surface Tension in Fluid Mechanics
Video  (30:10)    |    Notes

5. Flow Visualization
Video  (35:00)    |    Notes

6. Pressure Fields and Fluid Acceleration
Video  (30:50)    |    Notes

7. Low-Reynolds-Number Flows
Video  (32:58)    |    Notes

8. Channel Flow of a Compressible Fluid
Video  (28:58)    |    Notes

9. Vorticity
Video 1  (22:55)    |    Video 2  (20:58)    |    Notes

10. Deformation of Continuous Media
Video  (38:07)    |    Notes

11. Turbulence
Video  (31:58)    |    Notes

12. Fluid Dynamics of Drag
Video 1  (27:45)    |    Video 2  (32:19)    |    Video 3  (40:58)    |    Video 4  (28:50)    |    Notes

13. Secondary Flow
Video  (35:58)    |    Notes

14. Pressure Fields and Fluid Acceleration
Video  (32:39)    |    Notes

15. Flow Inbstabilities
Video  (27:59)    |    Notes

16. Cavitation
Video  (31:59)    |    Notes

17. Rarefied Gas Dynamics
Video  (32:40)    |    Notes

18. Stratified Flow
Video  (26:08)    |    Notes

19. Rotating Flows
Video  (30:59)    |    Notes

20. Aerodynamic Generation of Sound
Video  (44:47)    |    Notes

21. Magnetohydrodynamics
Video  (26:56)    |    Notes

Shadowgraph flow visualisations of gas jets

TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1. Jet screech of under-expanded planar supersonic jet - L.Poldervaart, G. Vossers, A.P.J.Wijnands (1969)
Video  (15:37)

2. The interaction of two velocity gas jets - J. Field, L. Poldervaart, A.P.J. Wijnands (1976)
Video  (8:51)

3. Sound pulse-boundary layer interaction in a free jet - L.Poldervaart and A.P.J. Wijnands, L. Bronkhorst (1974)
Video  (20:28)

4. Modes of vibration of an under-expanded free jet - L.Poldervaart and A.P.J. Wijnands, l.H.A.M van Moll, E.J. van Voorthuisen (1974)
Video  (11:09)

Combustion Webinar

Online, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georga, USA - 2021-2022

Wolfgang Polifke     30 April 2022
Intrinsic thermoacoustic feedback and its consequences for combustion noise and combustion dynamics     Video  (57:32)

Jackie O'Connor     5 March 2022
Methods of Combustion Instability Suppression and Outlook for Combustor Design     Video  (1:06:58)

Epaminondas Mastorakos     12 June 2021
Flame Stabilisation Revisited     Video  (56:11)

R.I. Sujith     5 June 2021
Complex system approach to investigate and mitigate thermoacoustic instability in turbulent combustors     Video  (1:17:55)

Heinz Pitsch     20 March 2021
Hydrogen: A Seemingly Simple Fuel     Video  (1:23:03)

Full series available of Combustion Webinar presentations at https://sun.ae.gatech.edu/combustion-webinar (opens in a new tab)