S. Evesque

Fellowship details

Project title: "Modelling of combustion instabilities in annular combustors"
Starting date: 1 August 2001
Finishing date: 31 July 2003
Fellowship type: Post-Doc
Host institution: Lehrstuhl für Thermodynamik, Technical University of Munich (www.td.mw.tum.de)

Academic Qualifications:

Ph-D in Mechanical Engineering, Trinity College, Cambridge University, UK (1997-2000)

-Thesis: "Adaptive control of combustion oscillations"
-Supervisor: Professor Ann Dowling
-Visiting Engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oct-Dec 1999, to work jointly with Dr Anuradha Annaswamy

Diploma as a Generalist Engineer, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France (1995-1998)

Research Interest

Combustion instabilities:

• Modelling in longitudinal or annular geometries:

1. low-order modelling
2. finite element methods

• Adaptive active control design:

1. LMS algorithm, system identification
2. Lyapunov stability analysis, stable self-tuning regulators

Publications

Dissertations:

S Evesque (2000). Adaptive control of combustion oscillations. Ph-D thesis, Cambridge University.

Journal papers:

S Evesque & AP Dowling (2001). LMS algorithm for adaptive control of combustion oscillations. Combust Sci Tech, Vol 164, pp 65-94.

S Evesque, AP Dowling and AM Annaswamy. Self-tuning regulators for combustion oscillations. Submitted to J. Fluid Mech. in 2001.

Conference papers:

S Evesque, AM Annaswamy and AP Dowling. Adaptive combustion instability control with saturation. Paper AIAA 2001-3310. 37^th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit. Salt Lake City, UT, July 2001.

S Evesque, AP Dowling and AM Annaswamy. Adaptive algorithms for control of combustion. Paper 22. In Proceedings of the RTO Symposium on active control technology. Braunschweig, Germany, May 2000.

S Evesque, AP Dowling, YC Chu and K Glover. Feedback control of a premixed ducted flame. In Proceedings of the ISABE XIV International Symposium. Florence, Italy, September 1999. Paper IS-7187.

S Evesque and AP Dowling. Adaptive control of combustion oscillations. Paper AIAA 98-2351. 4^th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference. Toulouse, France, June 1998.

Contact details:

Fellowship holder

Name: Stéphanie Evesque
Email: evesque@td.mw.tum.de
Phone: +49 89 289 16254
Fax: +49 89 289 16218

Supervisor

Name: Professor Wolfgang Polifke
Email: polifke@td.mw.tum.de
Phone: +49 89 289 16216
Fax: : +49 89 289 16218