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Characterizing the signature of flame flashback precursor through recurrence analysis

Loizos Christodoulou1, Lipika Kabiraj2, Aditya Saurabh2

  • 1School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)
|February 1, 2016
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Precursors to flame flashback were detected using dynamical changes in recurrence plots. These changes, indicating increased determinism, signal impending flashback events, offering potential for early warning systems.

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