Combustion instabilities in industrial gas turbines - measurements on operating plant and thermoacoustic modeling

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 420-428

  Hobson, D E ^a   Fackrell, J E ^a   Hewitt, G ^a  

^a PowerGen plc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; GAS TURBINE; INSTABILITY;

EID: 0034214781     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1287238     Document Type: Article

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