Active control of lean blowout for turbine engine combustors

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 807-814

  Muruganandam, T M ^a,b   Nair, S ^a,b   Scarborough, D ^a,b,c   Neumeier, Y ^a,b,c   Jagoda, J ^a,b,c   Lieuwen, T ^a,b,c   Seitzman, J ^a,b,c   Zinn, B ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMILUMINESCENCE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; STABILIZATION; TURBINES;

EVENT-BASED CONTROL SYSTEM; LEAN-BLOWOUT (LBO) LIMIT; THRESHOLD-BASED IDENTIFICATION STRATEGY; TURBINE ENGINE COMBUSTORS;

COMBUSTORS;

EID: 26244451599     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.7254     Document Type: Article

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