Model-Based, Multiscale Self-Tuning Controller Developed for Active Combustion Control
- Author:
- Le, Dzu K.
- Published:
- June 2005.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
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- hdl.handle.net
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- Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available.
- Summary:
- New challenges concerning system health-monitoring and life-extending robust controls for the Ultra-Efficient Engine Technology Project, as well as other advanced engine and power system concepts at NASA and elsewhere, have renewed the control community s interest in smart, model-based methods. In particular, these challenges have further motivated efforts at the NASA Glenn Research Center to exploit the versatility and superiority of the dynamic features extraction of multiscale analysis for controls--such as with "wavelets" and "wavelet filter-banks.' The accomplishments reported herein pertain to the active suppression of combustion instabilities in liquid-fuel combustors via fuel modulation. The fundamentals and initial success of this innovation were reported for a unique demonstration of active combustion control (a research collaboration of NASA Glenn with Pratt & Whitney and the United Technologies Research Center, UTRC). This demonstration, conducted in 2002 at UTRC on the NASA single nozzle rig (SNR) combustor, was the first known suppression of high-frequency instability with a liquid-fueled combustor. The SNR is based on a high-powered military engine combustor that exhibited well-known instabilities.
- Collection:
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 20050220613.
Research and Technology 2004; NASA/TM-2005-213419. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
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