Pressure-gain combustion: Part I—model development

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 461-468

  Narayanaswami, L ^a   Richards, G A ^b  

^a EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; TURBINES-GAS;

EID: 0029853310     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2816668     Document Type: Article

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