Assessment of methods for the computation of the linear stability of combustors

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 453-476

  Sattelmayer, T ^a   Polifke, W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Low order modeling; Pulsations; Stability analysis; Thermoacoustics

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTORS; CONTROL THEORY; LINEAR EQUATIONS; NYQUIST DIAGRAMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

HEAT RELEASE; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

COMBUSTION;

EID: 0345172378     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00102200302382     Document Type: Article

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