A Short Course of Lectures
on
DYNAMICS OF COMBUSTION SYSTEMS:
FUNDAMENTALS, ACOUSTICS, AND CONTROL
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- Objectives
& Outline (110 KB)
- Section
I: Introduction & Historical Background (10,203 KB)
- Section
II: Principles and Methods of Classical Control in the Frequency Domain
(2,574 KB)
- Section
III: Linear Control in State Space (339 KB)
- Section
IV: Introduction to Thermodynamics, Chemical Thermodynamics, and Chemical
Kinetics (1,218 KB)
- Section
V: Fundamentals of Combustion Processes (6,928 KB)
- Section
VI: Fundamentals of Acoustics (1,147 KB)
- Section
VII: Linear and Nonlinear Combustion Instabilities (5,306 KB)
- Section
VIII: Modal Control of Combustor Dynamics (402 KB)
- Section
IX: Vortex Shedding and Control of Combustion Instabilities (3,436
KB)
- Section
X: Measurements of Combustion Dynamics (3,289 KB)
This course was first assembled with support from
the Department of Energy (Advanced Gas Turbine Research program, AGTSR) and
in consultation with personnel at the United Technologies Research Center. It
was subsequently given (September 2001) at the NASA Glenn Research Center.
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