Profile
Prof Nicholas WORTH
Principal Investigator
Prof Nicholas Worth is Head of the Thermofluids Research Group in the Department of Energy and Process Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Prof Worth’s work focusses on understanding the fundamental physics of combustion instabilities, with a recent focus on carbon-free fuels such as hydrogen and ammonia.
Norway
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Key Publications
Google Scholar Link
A. Ånestad, R. Sampath, J. Moeck, A. Gruber and N. A. Worth, “The structure and stability of premixed ch4, h2, and nh3/h2 flames in an axially staged can combustor,” Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, vol. 146, no. 5, 2023. doi: 10.1115/1.4063718.
T. Indlekofer et al., “The effect of hydrogen addition on the amplitude and harmonic response of azimuthal instabilities in a pressurized annular combustor,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 228, pp. 375–387, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.02.015.
T. Indlekofer, A. Faure-Beaulieu, N. Noiray and J. Dawson, “The effect of dynamic operating conditions on the thermoacoustic response of hydrogen rich flames in an annular combustor,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 223, pp. 284–294, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.10.013.
H. T. Nygård, G. Ghirardo and N. A. Worth, “Azimuthal flame response and symmetry breaking in a forced annular combustor,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 233, p. 111 565, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111565.
E. Æsøy, J. G. Aguilar, S. Wiseman, M. R. Bothien, N. A. Worth and J. R. Dawson, “Scaling and prediction of transfer functions in lean premixed h2/ch4-flames,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 215, pp. 269–282, 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.01.045.
Achievements
2023 Distinguished Paper Award for the propulsion colloquium, The Combustion Institute
2021 ASME Turbo Expo best paper award
2013 Gaydon prize, International Combustion Symposium, Warsaw, Poland
2005 Royal Aeronautical Society prize for 1st rank in Aero Engineering, Loughborough University