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Contents<br />

1 Introduction 1<br />

1.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

1.2 Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />

1.3 Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />

1.4 Methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />

1.5 Outline <strong>of</strong> thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

2 Gas Turbine Combustor 7<br />

2.1 The <strong>combustor</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

2.1.1 General <strong>combustor</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

2.1.2 The investigated <strong>combustor</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />

2.1.3 Combustor loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

3 Experimental setups 17<br />

3.1 The laminar flame speed setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

3.2 The atmospheric full burner setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />

3.3 The pressurized central body burner setup . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

3.4 The pressurized full burner setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />

4 Diagnostic methods 29<br />

4.1 Particle Image Velocimetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />

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