Department people
Gemma Febrer-Alles
Research Student
Tel +44 (0)1509 227 234
Fax +44 (0)1509 227 275
Supervisor: Dr Z Yang
Research groups
- Applied Aerodynamics
Research Interests
- LES turbulence modeling
- Computational Fluid Dynamics based on LES techniques
- Gas Turbine Combustors Aerodynamics in Premixed regime
- Numerical analysis of thermo-acoustic instabilities present in Premixed Gas Turbine Combustors.
Current Research
- Use and development of the in-home CFD code LULES to cope with incompressible reacting flows in premixed regime
- Development of a hybrid , coupled CFD approach to include wave effects captured via a thermo-acoustic network model, using sensitised inlet boundary conditions
- Study and analysis of thermo-acoustic instabilities in Gas Turbine Combustors by means of Flame Transfer Functions (FTF)