Laser-based investigations in gas turbine model combustors

W Meier, I Boxx, M Stöhr, CD Carter - Experiments in fluids, 2010 - Springer
Dynamic processes in gas turbine (GT) combustors play a key role in flame stabilization and
extinction, combustion instabilities and pollutant formation, and present a challenge for …

Laser-based investigations of thermoacoustic instabilities in a lean premixed gas turbine model combustor

P Weigand, W Meier, X Duan, M Aigner - 2007 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Nonintrusive laser-based and optical measurements were performed in a gas turbine model
combustor with a lean premixed swirl-stabilized CH 4-air flame at atmospheric pressure. The …

Phase-resolved laser Raman scattering and laser Doppler velocimetry applied to periodic instabilities in a gas turbine model combustor

XR Duan, W Meier, P Weigand, B Lehmann - Applied Physics B, 2005 - Springer
The understanding of periodic flame instabilities belongs to the major challenges in modern
combustion research and technology and is of special importance for lean premixed gas …

Laser-based investigations of periodic combustion instabilities in a gas turbine model combustor

R Giezendanner, P Weigand… - J. Eng. Gas …, 2005 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The driving mechanism of pulsations in gas turbine combustors depends on a complex
interaction between flow field, chemistry, heat release, and acoustics. Experimental data on …

Laser diagnostic study of the mechanism of a periodic combustion instability in a gas turbine model combustor

P Weigand, W Meier, XR Duan… - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2005 - Springer
To investigate the mechanisms leading to sustained thermoacoustic oscillations in swirl
flames, a gas turbine model combustor was equipped with an optically accessible …

Parametric study of vortex structures and their dynamics in swirl-stabilized combustion

AM Steinberg, CM Arndt, W Meier - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2013 - Elsevier
The dynamics of major flow structures were studied in a gas turbine model combustor for
perfectly premixed swirl-stabilized flames under a variety of reacting and non-reacting …

Investigations of swirl flames in a gas turbine model combustor: I. Flow field, structures, temperature, and species distributions

P Weigand, W Meier, XR Duan, W Stricker… - Combustion and flame, 2006 - Elsevier
A gas turbine model combustor for swirling CH4/air diffusion flames at atmospheric pressure
with good optical access for detailed laser measurements is discussed. Three flames with …

Investigations of swirl flames in a gas turbine model combustor: II. Turbulence–chemistry interactions

W Meier, XR Duan, P Weigand - Combustion and Flame, 2006 - Elsevier
The thermochemical states of three swirling CH4/air diffusion flames, stabilized in a gas
turbine model combustor, were investigated using laser Raman scattering. The flames were …

Experimental study of unsteady flame structures of an oscillating swirl flame in a gas turbine model combustor

M Stöhr, R Sadanandan, W Meier - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2009 - Elsevier
Velocity fields and flame structures of a partially premixed swirl flame in a gas turbine model
combustor are measured in axial and transverse sections using simultaneous (Stereo-) PIV …

Mixing and stabilization study of a partially premixed swirling flame using laser induced fluorescence

D Galley, S Ducruix, F Lacas, D Veynante - Combustion and Flame, 2011 - Elsevier
A laboratory-scale swirling burner, presenting many similarities with gas turbines
combustors, has been studied experimentally using planar laser induced fluorescence …