Designing a Gas Turbine Combustor Test Rig and Testing a Sample Combustor at Atmospheric Conditions

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1 Amirkabir University of Technology

2 Department of Aerospace Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

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  • Receive Date: 20 October 2016
  • Revise Date: 17 June 2017
  • Accept Date: 24 June 2017

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