Towards modeling lean blow out in gas turbine flameholder applications

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-48

  Kim, Won Wook ^a   Lienau, Jeffrey J ^a   Van Slooten, Paul R ^b   Colket III, Meredith B ^b   Malecki, Robert E ^a   Syed, Saadat ^a  

^a PRATT AND WHITNEY   (United States)

^b UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOWOUTS; COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLAME RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STOICHIOMETRY; TURBULENT FLOW;

COMBUSTION CLOSURE; EQUILIBRIUM CHEMISTRY; FLAMEHOLDER APPLICATIONS; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION; LEAN BLOW OUT;

GAS TURBINES;

BLOWOUTS; COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLAME RESEARCH; GAS TURBINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STOICHIOMETRY; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33645753275     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2032450     Document Type: Article

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