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Technical University of Munich

Dr. Camilo Fernando Silva Garzon

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Dr. habil. Camilo Fernando Silva Garzon

Research Projects

Numerical Reconstruction of Thermo-Fluid Dynamic Fields from Sparse Pressure Data

FlameODE - Flame Response Modeling via Physically Interpretable Differential Equations

Output-Only System Identification via Generalized Polynomial Chaos

Reduced-Order Modeling of Thermoacoustic Systems

Intrinsic Thermoacoustic (ITA) instabilities 

Publications

  • Doehner, G.; Eder, A.J.; Silva, C F.: A parsimonious system of ordinary differential equations for the response modeling of turbulent swirled flames. Combustion and Flame 266 (266), 2024, 113408 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C.F.; Polifke, W.: A new class of Galerkin expansion models for the study of thermoacoustic instabilities. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 40 (1-4), 2024, 105242 more… BibTeX
  • Desor, M.; Haeringer, M.; Hiestermann, M.; Niebler, K.; Silva, C.F.; Polifke, M.: Application of an improved workflow for the identification of flame dynamics to swirl stabilized WET combustion. ASME Turbo Expo 2024 Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2024 more… BibTeX
  • Eder, A.; Dharmaputra, B.; Garcia, A.M.; Silva, C.F.; Polifke, W.: Identification of entropy waves in a partially premixed combustor. 40th Internationen Symposium on Combustion, 2024Proceedings of the Combustion Institute more… BibTeX
  • Eder, A.; Merk, M.; Hollweck, T.; Fischer, A.; Lahiri, C.; Silva, C.F.; Polifke, W.: Model-based inference of flame transfer matrices from acoustic measurements in an aero-engine test rig. ASME Turbo Expo 2024 Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2024 more… BibTeX
  • Yong, K.J.; Silva, C. F.; Fournier, G.J.J.; Polifke, W.: Categorization of thermoacoustic modes in an ideal resonator with phasor diagrams. Combustion and Flame 249, 2023, 112605 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, Camilo F.: Intrinsic thermoacoustic instabilities. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 95, 2023, 101065 more… BibTeX
  • Tathawadekar, N. N.; Doan, N. A. K.; Silva, C. F.; Thuerey, N.: Incomplete to complete multiphysics forecasting: a hybrid approach for learning unknown phenomena. Data-Centric Engineering 4 (e27), 2023 more… BibTeX
  • Eder, A.J.; Dharmaputra, B.; Désor, M.; Silva, C.F.; Garcia, A.M.; Schuermans, B.; Noiray, N.; Polifke, W.: Generation of Entropy Waves by Fully Premixed Flames in a Non-Adiabatic Combustor With Hydrogen Enrichment. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 145 (11), 2023, 111001 more… BibTeX
  • Eder, A. J; Silva, C. F; Haeringer, M.; Kuhlmann, J.; Polifke, W.: Incompressible versus compressible large eddy simulation for the identification of premixed flame dynamics. International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics 15 (1), 2023, 16-32 more… BibTeX
  • Eder, A.; Dharmaputra, B.; Desor, M.; Silva, C.; Garcia, A.; Schuermans, B.; Noiray N.; Polifke, W.: Generation of entropy waves by fully premixed flames in a non-adiabatic combustor with hydrogen enrichment. ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2023 more… BibTeX
  • Desor, M.; Eder, A.; Silva, C.F.; Polifke, W.: Influence of wall-to-wall radiative heat transfer on premixed flame dynamics. Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry meets Academia (SoTiC 2023), 2023 more… BibTeX
  • Eder, A.; Fischer, A.; Lahiri, C.; Merk, M.; Staufer, M.; Eggels, R.; Silva, C.F.; Polifke, W.: Identification of the dynamics of a turbulent spray flame at high pressure. Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry meets Academia (SoTiC 2023), 2023 more… BibTeX
  • Tathawadekar, N.; Ösün, A.; Eder, A.J.; Silva, C.F.; Thuerey, N.: Linear and nonlinear flame response prediction of turbulent flames using neural network models. Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry meets Academia (SoTiC 2023), 2023 more… BibTeX
  • Kulkarni, S.; Silva, C. F.; Polifke, W.: Response of spray number density and evaporation rate to velocity oscillations. International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics 14 (1-2), 2022, 107-117 more… BibTeX
  • Doehner, G.; Haeringer, M.; Silva, C.F.: Nonlinear flame response modelling by a parsimonious set of ordinary differential equations. International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics 14 (1-2), 2022, 17-29 more… BibTeX
  • Fournier, G.; Schäfer, F.; Haeringer, M.; Silva, C.F.; Polifke, W.: Interplay of Clusters of Acoustic and Intrinsic Thermoacoustic Modes in Can-Annular Combustors. ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2022Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition more… BibTeX
  • Niebler, K.; Bonnaire, P.; Doan, A.K.; Silva, C.: Towards reconstruction of acoustic fields via physics-informed neural networks. The 51st International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, 2022Internoise 2022 more… BibTeX
  • Guo, Shuai; Silva, Camilo F.; Polifke, Wolfgang: Reliable Calculation of Thermoacoustic Instability Risk Using an Imperfect Surrogate Model. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 143 (1), 2021 more… BibTeX
  • Meindl, M.; Silva C.; Polifke, W.: On the spurious entropy generation encountered in hybrid linear thermoacoustic models. Combustion and Flame 223, 2021, 525-540 more… BibTeX
  • Yong, K. J.; Silva, C. F.; Polifke, W.: A categorization of marginally stable thermoacoustic modes based on phasor diagrams. Combustion and Flame 228, 2021, 236-249 more… BibTeX
  • Guo, S.; Silva, C. F.; Polifke, W.: Robust identification of flame frequency response via multi-fidelity Gaussian process approach. Journal of Sound and Vibration 502, 2021, Article number 116083 more… BibTeX
  • Tathawadekar, N.; Doan, N. A. K.; Silva, C. F.; Thuerey, N.: Modeling of the nonlinear flame response of a Bunsen-type flame via multi-layer perceptron. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 38 (4), 2021, 6261-6269 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C. F.; Prieto, L.; Ancharek, M.; Marigliani, P.; Mensah, G. A.: Adjoint-Based Calculation of Parametric Thermoacoustic Maps of an Industrial Combustion Chamber. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 143 (1), 2021 more… BibTeX
  • Fournier, G. J. J.; Haeringer, M.; Silva, C. F.; Polifke, W.: Low-Order Modeling to Investigate Clusters of Intrinsic Thermoacoustic Modes in Annular Combustors. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 143 (4), 2021, Article Number: 041025 more… BibTeX
  • Fournier, Guillaume J. J.; Meindl, Max; Silva, Camilo F.; Ghirardo, Giulio; Bothien, Mirko R.; Polifke, Wolfgang: Low-Order Modeling of Can-Annular Combustors. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 143 (12), 2021 more… BibTeX
  • Fournier, G. ; Meindl, M.; Silva, C. F.; Ghirardo, G.; Bothien, M. R.; Polifke, W.: Low-Order Modeling of Can-Annular Combustors. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 143 (12), 2021 more… BibTeX
  • Kulkarni, S.; Guo, S.; Silva, C. F.; Polifke, W.: Confidence in Flame Impulse Response Estimation From Large Eddy Simulation With Uncertain Thermal Boundary Conditions. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 143 (12), 2021 more… BibTeX
  • Guo, S.; Silva, C.F.; Yong, K.J.; Polifke, W.: Enhanced Gaussian Process approach for efficient thermoacoustic uncertainty quantification: A comparison study. 14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM), ECCOMAS Congress 2021, 2021 more… BibTeX
  • Guo, S.; Silva, C.F.; Yong, K.J.; Polifke, W.: A Gaussian-Process-based framework for high-dimensional uncertainty quantification analysis in thermoacoustic instability prediction. Proceedings of the 38th Combustion Symposium, 2021 more… BibTeX
  • Kulkarni, S.; Guo, S.; Silva, C. F.; Polifke, W.: Confidence in Flame Impulse Response Estimation by LES with Uncertain Thermal Boundary Condition. ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2021 more… BibTeX
  • Fournier, G.; Meindl, M.; Silva, C.F.; Ghirardo, G.; Bothien, M.; Polifke, W.: Low-Order Modeling of Can-Annular Combustors. ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2021 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C.F.; Pettersson, P.; Iaccarino, G.; Ihme, M.: Uncertainty quantification of combustion noise by generalized polynomial chaos and state-space models. Combustion and Flame 217, 2020, 113-130 more… BibTeX
  • Yong, K.J.; Meindl, M.; Polifke, W.; Silva, C.F.: Thermoacoustic Spectrum of a Swirled Premixed Combustor With Partially Reflecting Boundaries. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 142 (1), 2020, 011005 (12 pages) more… BibTeX
  • Orchini, A.; Silva, C.; Mensah, G.A.; Moeck, J.P.: Thermoacoustic modes of intrinsic and acoustic origin and their interplay with exceptional points. Combustion and Flame 211, 2020, 83-95 more… BibTeX
  • Orchini, A.; Magri, L.; Silva, C. F.; Mensah, G.A.; Moeck, J.P.: Degenerate perturbation theory in thermoacoustics: high-order sensitivities and exceptional points. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 903, 2020, 37 more… BibTeX
  • Guo, S.; Silva, C.; Polifke, W.: Efficient Robust Design for Thermoacoustic Instability Analysis: A Gaussian Process Approach. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 142 (3), 2020, 031026 (15 pages) more… BibTeX
  • Fournier, G.; Häringer, M.; Silva, C.; Polifke, W.: Low-Order Modeling to Investigate Clusters of ITA Modes in Annular Combustors. ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2020 more… BibTeX
  • Guo, S.; Silva, C.; Polifke, W.: Reliable calculation of thermoacoustic instability risk using an imperfect surrogate model. ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2020 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C.; F.,C.; Prieto, L.; Ancharek, M.; Marigliani, P.; Mensah, I.A.: Adjoint-based calculation of parametric thermoacoustic maps of an industrial combustion chamber. ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2020 more… BibTeX
  • Merk, M.; Silva, C.; Polifke, W.; Gaudron, R.; Gatti, M.; Mirat, C.; Schuller, T.: Direct Assessment of the Acoustic Scattering Matrix of a Turbulent Swirl Combustor by Combining System Identification, Large Eddy Simulation and Analytical Approaches. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 141 (2), 2019, 021035 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C.F.; Yong, K.J.; Magri, L.: Thermoacoustic Modes of Quasi-One-Dimensional Combustors in the Region of Marginal Stability. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 141 (2), 2019, 021022 more… BibTeX
  • Guo, S.; Silva, C.F.; Ghani, A.; Polifke, W.: Quantification and Propagation of Uncertainties in Identification of Flame Impulse Response for Thermoacoustic Stability Analysis. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 141 (2), 2019, 021032 more… BibTeX
  • Guo, S.; Silva, C.; Polifke, W.: Efficient Robust Design For Thermoacoustic Instability Analysis: A Gaussian Process Approach. ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2019Proceedings more… BibTeX
  • Guo, S.; Silva, C.; Polifke, W.: Robust Flame Frequency Response Identification via a Multi-Fidelity Approach. Computational Methods in Multi-Scale, Multi-Uncertainty and Multi-Physics Problems (CM4P), 2019 more… BibTeX
  • Polifke, W.; Merk, M.; Silva, C.; Jaensch, S.; Gaudron, R.; Gatti, M.; Mirat, C.; Schuller, T.: Identification of Combustion Noise and Flame Dynamics of Confined Turbulent Flames. Part II: Identification of Flame dynamics and Combustion Noise Source Terms. 17th International Conference on Numerical Combustion, 2019 more… BibTeX
  • Schuller, T.; Gaudron, M.; Gatti, M.; Mirat, C.; Merk, M.; Silva, C.; Jaensch, S.; Polifke, W..;: Identification of Combustion Noise and Flame Dynamics of Confined Turbulent Flames. Part I: Methodology. 17th International Conference on Numerical Combustion, 2019 more… BibTeX
  • Yong, K.J.; Meindl, M.; Polifke, W.; Silva, C.: Thermoacoustic Spectrum of a Swirled Premixed Combustor with Partially Reflecting Boundaries. ASME Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition, 2019Proceedings more… BibTeX
  • Merk, M.; Gaudron, R.; Silva, C.; Gatti, M.; Mirat, C.; Schuller, T.; Polifke, W.: Prediction of Combustion Noise of an Enclosed Flame by Simultaneous Identification of Noise Source and Flame Dynamics. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (37), 201937th International Symposium on Combustion more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C.; Polifke, W.: Non-dimensional groups for similarity analysis of thermoacoustic instabilities. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 37, 201937th International Symposium on Combustion more… BibTeX
  • Guo, S.; Silva, C.; Bauerheim, M.; Ghani, A.; Polifke, W.: Evaluating the impact of uncertainty in flame impulse response model on thermoacoustic instability preduction: A dimensionality reduction approach. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 37, 201937th International Symposium on Combustion more… BibTeX
  • Avdonin, A.; Jaensch, S.; Silva, C.F.; Češnovar, M.; Polifke, W.: Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis of thermoacoustic stability with non-intrusive polynomial chaos expansion. Combustion and Flame 189, 2018, 300-310 more… BibTeX
  • Merk, M.; Jaensch, S.; Silva, C.; Polifke, W.: Simultaneous identification of transfer functions and combustion noise of a turbulent flame. Journal of Sound and Vibration 422, 2018, 432-452 more… BibTeX
  • Mensah, G.A.; Magri, L.; Silva, C.F.; Buschmann, P.; Moeck, J.P.: Exceptional points in the thermoacoustic spectrum. Journal of Sound and Vibration 433, 2018, 124-128 more… BibTeX
  • Guo, S.; Silva, C.; Ghani, A.; Polifke, W.: Quantification and Propagation of Uncertainties in Identification of Flame Impulse Response for Thermoacoustic Stability Analysis. Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, 2018 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C.; Yong, K.J.; Magri, L.: Thermoacoustic Modes of Quasi- 1D Combustors in the Region of Marginal Stability. Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, 2018 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C.; Pettersson, P.; Gianluca, I.; Ihme, M.: Generalized chaos expansion of state space models for uncertainty quanti cation in thermoacoustics. Proceedings of the Summer Program, 2018CTR Report Stanford University more… BibTeX
  • Merk, M.; Silva, C.; Polifke, W.; Gaudron, R.; Gatti, M.; Mirat, C.; Schuller, T.: Direct assessment of the acoustic scattering matrix of a turbulent swirl combustor by combining system identification, large eddy simulation and analytical approaches. Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, 2018 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C. F.; Merk, M.; Komarek, T.; Polifke, W.: The contribution of intrinsic thermoacoustic feedback to combustion noise and resonances of a confined turbulent premixed flame. Combustion and Flame 182, 2017, 269-278 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C. F.; Runte, T.; Polifke, W.; Magri, L.: Uncertainty quantification of growth rates of thermoacoustic instability by an adjoint Helmholtz solver. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 139 (1), 2017, 011901-1 bis 11 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C. F.; Runte, T.; Polifke, W.; Magri, L.;: Uncertainty quantification of growth rates of thermoacoustic instability by an adjoint Helmholtz solver. Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2016, 2016GT2016-57659 more… BibTeX
  • Strobio Chen, L.; Steinbacher, T.; Silva, C.; Polifke, W.: On Entropy Waves Production Across a Premixed Flame. Proceedings of ASME 2016 Turbo Expo: Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition (GT2016-57026), 2016 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C. F.; Merk, M.; Komarek, T., Polifke, W.: The Contribution of Intrinsic Thermoacoustic Feedback to Combustion Noise and Resonances of a Confined Turbulent Premixed Flame. Thermoacoustic instabilities in Gas Turbines and Rocket engines, 2016 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C. F.; Emmert, T.; Jaensch, S.; Polifke, W.: Numerical study on intrinsic thermoacoustic instability of a laminar premixed flame. Combustion and Flame 162 (9), 2015, 3370-3378 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C. F.; Jaensch, S.; Emmert, T.; Polifke, W: On the autoregressive behavior of the intrinsic thermoacoustic feedback loop observed in premixed flames. Proceedings of the ICSV22, 2015 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C.F.; Duran, I.; Nicoud, D.; Moreau, S.: Boundary conditions for the computation of thermo-acoustic modes in combustion chambers. AIAA Journal 52 (6), 2014, 1180-1193 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C. F.; Polifke, W.; O'Brian, J.; Ihme, M.: Towards concurrent identification of flame dynamics and combustion noise of enclosed flames. Proceedings of the 2014 Summer Program, 2014 more… BibTeX
  • Courtine, E.; Selle, L.; Nicoud, F.; Polifke, W.; Silva, C.; Bauerheim, M.; Poinsot, T.: Causality and intrinsic thermoacoustic instability modes. Proceedings of the 2014 Summer Program, 2014 more… BibTeX
  • Sovardi, C.; Jaensch, S.; Silva, C.; Polifke, W.: Identification of Sound Sources in Internal ducted Flows: A Large Eddy Simulation -System Identification Approach. 21st International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2014, ICSV 2014, 2014 more… BibTeX
  • Jaensch, S.; Emmert, T.; Silva, C.F.; Polifke, W.: A Grey-Box Identification Approach for Thermoacoustic Network Models. Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2014: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition, 2014, 1-10 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C.F.; Nicoud, F.; Schuller, T.; Durox, D.; Candel, S.: Combining a Helmholtz solver with the flame describing function to assess combustion instability in a premixed swirled combustor. Combustion and Flame 160 (9), 2013, 1743 - 1754 more… BibTeX
  • Cuquel, A.; Silva, C.; Nicoud, F.; Durox, D.; Schuller, T.: Prediction of the nonlinear dynamics of a multiple flame combustor by coupling the describing function methodology with a helmholtz solver. Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2013: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition, GT 2013, 2013 more… BibTeX
  • Silva, C. F.; Föller, S.; Emmert, T.; Ulhaq, A.; Polifke, W.: Signal Generation and its Influence on the Concurrent Identification of Flame Transfer Function and Combustion Noise. EUROMECH Colloquium 546, 2013Combustion Dynamics and Combustion Noise more… BibTeX

Lecture Notes

  • Silva, C.F.; Förner, K.; Polifke, W.: Notes on Computational Thermo-Fluid Dynamics. Lecture Notes, 2016 more… BibTeX
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