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SFB 568:  Flow and Combustion in Modern Gas Turbine Combustion Chambers of the Future

Subject Area Thermal Engineering/Process Engineering
Term from 2001 to 2011
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5484378
 
Efforts to increase the efficiency of modern gas turbines, both in the field of power generation applications and aircraft jet engines on the one hand and to comply with the current emission regulations on the other hand have to be supported by a profound understanding and an accurate prediction of the complex flow phenomena and interaction mechanisms occurring in gas turbine combustors. The main objective of this collaborative research centre is to formulate and validate a global model with which the development and the optimization of design concepts of modern gas turbine combustion chambers can be performed. The global model may consist of
(1) a set of compatible well-tested sub-models being capable of describing the essential physical and chemical processes which may strongly interact each other;
(2) efficient numerical methods,
(3) a suitable integration of boundary components and involving interactions, and
(4) well-conceived experimental configurations for model validation. To achieve this objective, it is recommendable to divide the program into areas corresponding to the main process parts of a gas turbine combustor. Four problem areas are considered: (A) Atomization system and mixing, (B) Combustion, (C) Interaction and thermo-fluidmechanical processes and (D) Numerical methods and data/software management.
DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres

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Applicant Institution Technische Universität Darmstadt
Participating University Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
 
 

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