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  1. P. Marazioti, P. Koutmos: Simulations of combustion roar in turbulent attached and lifted turbulent methane jet flames
  2. K. Kowalczyk-Gajewska, J. Ostrowska-Maciejewska: Review on spectral decomposition of Hooke's tensor for all symmetry groups of linear elastic material
  3. W. Burzyński: Study on Material Effort Hypotheses (selected passages from doctoral dissertation)

P. Marazioti, P. Koutmos: Simulations of combustion roar in turbulent attached and lifted turbulent methane jet flames
The present work presents sample results of preliminary computations of the turbulent aerothermodynamic flow field and of the noise generated by the flame front, due to turbulent fluctuations in the flame (combustion roar), in lifted and attached jet diffusion flames of methane. The two-dimensional (2D) time-dependent numerical model was built based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations, equipped with the standard k-e turbulence models to calculate the reacting jet flows. A reactedness - mixture fraction two-scalar exponential PDF model, based on non-premixed flame arguments, was combined with a local Damkohler number extinction criterion to delineate between the reacting and non-reacting regions. Although the inclusion of the effects of premixed flame propagation could help to improve the model, initial comparisons with experimental results suggest adequate qualitative agreement between the computations and reported data. The reasonable agreement obtained for the aerothermodynamic flame characteristics permitted a meaningful computation of the combustion noise (roar) characteristics of the studied flames, in order to address the coupled effects of heat release by the flame and turbulent interactions on the autonomous flame noise generation.

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K. Kowalczyk-Gajewska, J. Ostrowska-Maciejewska: Review on spectral decomposition of Hooke's tensor for all symmetry groups of linear elastic material
The spectral decomposition of elasticity tensor for all symmetry groups of a linearly elastic material is reviewed. In the paper it has been derived in non-standard way by imposing the symmetry conditions upon the orthogonal projectors instead of the stiffness tensor itself. The numbers of independent Kelvin moduli and stiffness distributors are provided. The corresponding representation of the elasticity tensor is specified.

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W. Burzyński: Study on Material Effort Hypotheses (selected passages from doctoral dissertation)
Selected passages from Włodzimierz Burzyński's doctoral dissertation "Study on material effort hypotheses" printed in Polish by the Academy of Technical Sciences, Lwów, 1928, 1-192 (Translated by Teresa Fr±¶ and Anna Stręk, scientific editor Ryszard B. Pęcherski).

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