Browsing by Author "Parrish, Colin"

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    Novel health monitoring technology for in‐service diagnostics of intake separation in aircraft engines
    (Wiley, 2020-02-24) Gelman, Len; Petrunin, Ivan; Parrish, Colin; Walters, Mark
    Diagnostics and elimination of airflow separation effects draw essential attention of researchers in the areas of energy generation, civil engineering, and aerospace due to unwanted and harmful interaction of separated airflow with different structures. In aviation, distortion of the intake airflows of an aircraft engine, known as intake separation, not only reduces the efficiency of the engine due to decrease in air intake but also interacts with engine structural components, for example, blades, significantly increasing their vibration. This leads to fatigue and subsequent accelerated failure of these components. Therefore, health monitoring and diagnostics of the intake separation effects using structural health monitoring (SHM) framework are of high importance for ensuring both optimal engine performance and its safe operation. In the present paper, a novel health monitoring technology based on advanced signal processing, the integrated higher order spectral technique, is applied for the first time in worldwide terms for in‐service intake separation diagnostics in aircraft engine using casing vibration data.
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    Novel in-service combustion instability detection using the chirp fourier higher order spectra
    (Prognostics and Health Management Society, 2017-03-06) Gelman, Len; Parrish, Colin; Petrunin, Ivan; Walters, Mark
    Combustion instabilities, known as “rumble” and “screech” are the self-excited aerodynamic instabilities in the gas turbine combustor. They cause the premature failures of the gas turbine components, and, consequently, the failure of the gas turbine as a whole. Because of the complex physical effects underlying the rumble and the screech phenomena, it is difficult to eliminate them completely at the design stage. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the detection of the combustion instabilities in the gas turbine in order to prevent its prolonged operation in this mode. There are known techniques, which are able to detect the rumble and the screech in gas turbines. Most of them do not consider the combustion instabilities as non-linear and non-stationary events and, therefore, have lower detection efficiency. Novel technique for in-service combustion instability detection is implemented in this paper. This technique overcomes the limitations of the existing solutions.