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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"Turbine Engine"”.
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Commercial gas turbine engine platform strategy and design
… Pratt & Whitney PW4000 family of commercial gas turbine engines where predicted platform elements were consistent with actual design choices.
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Design of an automobile turbocharger gas turbine engine
The turbocharger gas turbine engine was designed with the intent of being built as a demonstration for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering courses 2.005 and 2.006 to supplement material covered. A gas turbine operates on an open version of the Brayton …
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Materials substitution in aircraft gas turbine engine applications
… of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1992.
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Development of a MEMS turbocharger and gas turbine engine
… has driven the development of the MIT micro gas turbine generator concept. The first engine design measures 23 x 23 x 0.3 mm and is fabricated from single crystal silicon using MEMS micro-fabrication techniques so as to offer the promise of low cost in large production. This thesis describes the …
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Dynamical system modeling of a micro gas turbine engine
… been developing the technology for a micro gas turbine engine capable of producing tens of watts of power in a package less than one cubic centimeter in volume. The demo engine developed for this research has low and diabtic component performance and severe heat transfer from the turbine side to …
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Preliminary design study of a micro-gas turbine engine
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1995.
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Turbine Engine Thrust Measurements Using a Non-Intrusive Acoustic Technique
… the thrust generated from a commercial jet engine. This thrust estimation was done using a pneumatic horn as the sound source with two arrays of microphones directly across the exhaust stream. The two arrays were separated by an axial distance downstream. Exhaust centerline measurements were …
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Improving gas turbine engine control system component optimization by delaying decisions
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2003.
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The design of a low-cost, low-powered gas-turbine engine
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1992.
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Design and performance of a gas-turbine engine from an automobile turbocharger
… Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering teaches thermodynamics and fluid mechanics through a pair of classes, Thermal Fluids Engineering I & II. The purpose of this project was to design and fabricate a gas-turbine engine for demonstration use in these two classes. The engine …
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An experimental study of surge control in a helicopter gas turbine engine
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998.
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Digital Fuel Control for a Lean Premixed Hydrogen-Fueled Gas Turbine Engine
Hydrogen-powered engines have been gaining increasing interest due to the global concerns of the effects of hydrocarbon combustion on climate change. Gas turbines are suitable for operation on hydrogen fuel. This thesis reports the results of investigations of the special requirements of the fuel …
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An Investigation of Lean Premixed Hydrogen Combustion in a Gas Turbine Engine
… particularly well-suited to application in gas turbines, where the equivalence ratio is likely to vary significantly over the operating range of the machine. The strong lean combustion stability of hydrogen-air flames is due primarily to high reaction rates and the associated high turbulent …
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Analysis Methods to Control Performance Variability and Costs in Turbine Engine Manufacturing
Few aircraft engine manufacturers are able to consistently achieve high levels of performance reliability in newly manufactured engines. Much of the variation in performance reliability is due to the combined effect of tolerances of key engine components, including tip clearances of rotating …
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Flow Field Computations of Combustor-Turbine Interactions in a Gas Turbine Engine
The current demands for higher performance in gas turbine engines can be reached by raising combustion temperatures to increase thermal efficiency. Hot combustion temperatures create a harsh environment which leads to the consideration of the durability of the combustor and turbine sections. …
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Testing and development of a shrouded gas turbine engine in a freejet facility
Testing and analysis of a shrouded turbojet engine with possible application for high speed propulsion on low cost Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and missiles. The possibility of a turbojet providing thrust at subsonic conditions and the ramjet section …
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Development of a catalytic combustion system for the MIT Micro Gas Turbine Engine
As part of the MIT micro-gas turbine engine project, the development of a hydrocarbon-fueled catalytic micro-combustion system is presented. A conventionally-machined catalytic flow reactor was built to simulate the micro-combustor and to better understand the catalytic combustion at micro-scale. …
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Design, fabrication, and performance of a gas-turbine engine from an automobile turbocharger
Thermal-Fluids Engineering is taught in two semesters in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To emphasize the course material, running experiments of thermodynamic plants are integrated into the course as demonstrations. The aim of this thesis is …
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A study of dynamic compressor surge control strategies for a gas turbine engine
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1994.
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Heat Transfer and Flow Measurements in Gas Turbine Engine Can and Annular Combustors
… axial and radial swirler performance in a gas turbine can combustor was conducted by investigating the correlation between combustor flow field geometry and convective heat transfer at cold flow conditions for Reynolds numbers of 50,000 and 80,000. Flow velocities were measured using Particle …
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