Multi-disciplinary design optimization of a combustor

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-156

  Motsamai, Oboetswe S ^a   Visser, Jan A ^a   Morris, Reuben M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

CFD; Combustor; Dynamic Q; Mathematical optimization; Temperature profile

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

COMBUSTORS;

EID: 38349131998     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: 10290273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052150701641866     Document Type: Article

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