Calculation of the flow field and NOx emissions of a gas turbine combustor by a coarse computational fluid dynamics model

Energy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 445-455

  Gobbato, Paolo ^a   Masi, Massimo ^a   Toffolo, Andrea ^b   Lazzaretto, Andrea ^a   Tanzini, Giordano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c ENEL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air jet penetration measure; Coarse grid CFD analysis; Combustion air splitting; Isothermal flow field

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; GAS TURBINES; HYDROGEN; ISOTHERMS; JETS; NATURAL GAS;

AIR JET; CFD ANALYSIS; COMBUSTION AIR; ISOTHERMAL FLOWS; POST PROCESSING;

COMBUSTORS;

AIRFLOW; COMBUSTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DILUTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW FIELD; HYDROGEN; ISOTHERM; NATURAL GAS; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; TURBINE;

EID: 84865439231     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.12.013     Document Type: Article

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