Research

Towards Lean Combustion

Project “Towards Lean Combustion” AST4-CT-2005-012326 (FP6)
Duration 01/2005 – 06/2007
Brief Description
  1. Mitigation of aviation emissions in terms of their environmental impact.
  2. Wide range of experiments on mono-sector or tubular combustors.
Partners SNECMA (Fr), Rolls-Royce Deutschland (De), MTU (De), AVIO (It), Turbomeca (Fr), ONERA (Fr), DLR (De), Lunds Univ. (Se), CNRS (Fr), Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Fr), Univ. Karlsruhe (De), Univ. di Genova (It), Univ. di Napoli “Frederico II” (It), CERFACS (Fr), Fundación Empresa Univers. de Zaragoza (Es), Univ. di Roma “La Sapienza” (It), Instytut Maszyn Przeplywowych (Pl), ACIES Europe (Fr)
Contribution WP 2 ; Task 2.3.3 ; Principal Investigator

  1. Stability diagram for three nozzles
  2. Identification of lifted mode combustion
  3. Flow and mixing field determination for a lifted and non-lifted flame for isothermal and reactive conditions by employing LDA, PIV, PDA and LIF

WP 3 ; Task 3.6 ; Principal Investigator

  1. Design, construction and operation of three swirl nozzles
Funding as partner 684 k€
On-line Reference http://ec.europa.eu/research/transport/projects/article_3689_en.html