Efficient numerical methods for radiation in gas turbines

Numerical Methods for Reacting Gas Flow Simulations

In this study, various numerical schemes for transient simulations of 2D laminar reacting gas flows, as typically found in chemical vapor deposition reactors, are proposed and compared. These systems are generally modeled by means of many stiffly coupled elementary gas phase reactions between a large number of reactants and intermediate species. The purpose of this study is to develop robust an...

Optimization the Efficiency of Gas Turbines for Air Pollution Reduction

Increasing concerns about energy and emissions from fuel consumption in gas turbines has attracted many researchers to protect the environment and reduce pollutants in the world. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the increasing efficiency of three-stroke gas turbine operation based on the technical analysis of the operation of three-axis gas turbine cycles with non-design condi...

Hot Corrosion in Gas Turbines

DURING COMBUSTION in the gas turbine, sulfur from the fuel reacts with sodium chloride from ingested air at elevated temperatures to form sodium sulfate. The sodium sulfate then deposits on the hot-section components, such as nozzle guide vanes and rotor blades, resulting in accelerated oxidation (or sulfidation) attack. This is commonly referred to as “hot corrosion.” Sulfur in the fuel is gen...

Efficient Numerical Methods for Least-Norm Regularization

The problem min x ‖x‖, s.t. ‖b−Ax‖ ≤ arises in the regularization of discrete forms of ill-posed problems when an estimate of the noise level in the data is available. After deriving necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for this problem, we propose two different classes of algorithms: a factorization-based algorithm for small to medium problems, and matrix-free iterations for the larg...

Ultra Micro Gas Turbines