Compressor fouling modeling: Relationship between computational roughness and gas turbine operation time

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Melino, Francesco ^a   Morini, Mirko ^b   Peretto, Antonio ^c   Pinelli, Michele ^b   Ruggero Spina, Pier ^b  

^a IMEM CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL COMPRESSORS; COMPRESSOR FOULING; COMPRESSOR PERFORMANCE; COMPRESSOR STAGE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODES; MODEL-BASED OPC; OPERATING HOURS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; POWER OUT PUT; TURBINE OPERATION;

AXIAL FLOW TURBOMACHINERY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS TURBINES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

COMPRESSORS;

EID: 84858635390     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004739     Document Type: Article

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