Experimental and numerical investigation into the propagation of entropy waves
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Entropy waves are an important source of indirect combustion noise and potentially contribute to the generation of thermoacoustic instabilities in gas-turbine combustors. Entropy fluctuations generated by unsteady combustion are known to disperse and diffuse as they convect toward the combustor exit. In this work, the propagation of entropy waves is investigated by means of experiments in a newly developed entropy rig and numerical simulations based on the large-eddy simulation approach. Both experimental and numerical results demonstrate that the amplitude of entropy fluctuations decays as a function of wave parameters and propagation distance, and it scales well with a local Helmholtz number