A comprehensive liquid fuel injection model for CFD simulations of gas turbine combustors

43rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit - Meeting Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1809-1825

  Cha, Chong M ^a   Zhu, Jiang ^a   Rizk, Nader K ^a   Anand, M S ^a  

^a ROLLS ROYCE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTORS; GAS TURBINES; HEURISTIC METHODS;

CFD SIMULATIONS; DROPLET SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; FUEL SPRAYS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 30744478977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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