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10 - Flame Stabilization, Flashback, Flameholding, and Blowoff

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2021

Tim C. Lieuwen
Tim C. Lieuwen
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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This chapter initiates the third section of the text, discussing transient and time-harmonic combustor phenomena. This particular chapter focuses on the transient phenomena of flashback, flame stabilization, and blowoff. Chapters 11 and 12 then focus on time-harmonic and broadband flame forcing.

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Unsteady Combustor Physics , pp. 379 - 405
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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