Passive control of combustion instability in a low emissions aeroderivative gas turbine

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2004

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 487-499

  Scarinci, Tomas ^a   Freeman, Christopher ^b   Day, Ivor ^c  

^a Rolls Royce   (United States)

^b ROLLS ROYCE PLC   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; COMBUSTION; COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; OSCILLATIONS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COMBUSTION INSTABILITY; DRY LOW EMISSIONS (DLE); FUEL-AIR MIXING; PASSIVE CONTROL;

GAS TURBINES;

EID: 10244221163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/gt2004-53767     Document Type: Conference Paper

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