Film cooling in gas turbines leads to aerodynamic mixing losses and reduced temperatures
of the gas flow. Improvements of the gas turbine thermal efficiency can be achieved by …

Illustrates Calculations Using Machine and Technological ProcessesThe conjugate heat
transfer (CHT) problem addresses the thermal interaction between a body and fluid flowing …

Film cooling flows are characterized by a row of jets injected at an angle from the blade
surface or endwalls into the heated crossflow. The resulting flowfield is quite complex, and …

A conjugate heat transfer solver has been developed and applied to a realistic film-cooled
turbine vane for a variety of blade materials. The solver used for the fluid convection part of …

Detailed surface measurements of the thermal performance of a film cooling system have
been performed on the endwall of a nozzle guide vane (NGV) mounted in a linear cascade …

We report on the progress in the development and application of a coupled boundary
element/finite volume method temperature‐forward/flux‐back algorithm developed to solve …

Air film cooling has been successfully used to cool gas turbine hot sections for the last half
century. A promising technology is proposed to enhance air film cooling with water mist …

The prediction of the heat transfer between a fluid and a solid object, known as conjugate
heat transfer, is a very common problem in engineering sciences. This work investigates …

Numerical simulation is performed in this study to explore film-cooling enhancement by
injecting mist into the cooling air with a focus on investigating the effect of various modeling …

This paper describes the addition of conjugate capability to an existing Navier-Stokes code.
Also, results are presented for an internally cooled configuration. The code is currently …