Combustion Research for Gas Turbine Engines.

Abstract

Research on combustion is being conducted at NASA's Lewis Research Center to provide improved analytical models of the complex flow and chemical reaction processes which occur in the combustor of gas turbine engines and other aeropropulsion systems. The objective is to obtain a better understanding of the various physical processes that occur in the gas turbine combustor in order to develop models and numerical codes which can accurately describe these processes. Activities include in-house research projects, university grants, and industry contracts and are classified under the subject areas of advanced numerics, fuel sprays, fluid mixing, and radiation-chemistry. Results are highlighted from several projects. Keywords include: Computational fluid mechanics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA153977

Entities

People

  • E. J. Mularz
  • R. W. Claus

Organizations

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Differential Equations
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Gas Turbines
  • Heat Transfer
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbines
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Library and Information Science
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers