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A short literature review on Rayleigh's Criteria is provided. This criteria is widely used in mechanical and aerospace engineering areas to understand the phenomena of combustion instability. In continuously running combustion systems where combustion occurs inside a volume of relatively low losses, small amplitude pressure disturbance and small amplitude heat release fluctuations can couple with each other in a positive feedback loop leading to very large amplitude pressure oscillations often ending up in limit cycle oscillations. Such oscillations are detrimental to the combustion system (power or propulsion) for it exposes the system to large mechanical fatigue, thermal loads and can lead to catastrophic failures. |