Combustion Instabilities in Gas Turbine Engines

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Combustion Instabilities in Gas Turbine Engines: Operational experience, fundamental mechanisms, and modeling. Edited by Timothy C. Lieuwen and Vigor Yang. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1801 Alexander Bell Dr., Suite 500, Reston, VA 20191- 4344. 2005. 657 pages. AIAA members, $69.95; list, $99.95. ISBN 1- 56347-669-X.

This book offers gas turbine users and manufacturers a resource to help them sort through issues associated with combustion instabilities. In the last decade, substantial efforts have been made in the industrial, governmental, and academic communities to understand the issues associated with combustion instabilities in lowemission gas turbines. The objective of the editors-Timothy lieuwen has contributed to this magazine in the past-is to compile these results into chapters that address various facets of the problem. The case studies section speaks to specific manufacturer and user experiences with combustion instabilities in the development stage and in fielded turbine engines. The book then goes on to examine the fundamental mechanisms, the combustor modeling, and control approaches. Copyright American Society of Mechanical Engineers Mar 2006