Gas turbine engine efficiency and reliability is generally improved through better
understanding and improvements to the design of individual components. The life limiting …

Optimising the design of aviation propulsion systems using computational fluid dynamics is
essential to increase their efficiency and reduce pollutant as well as noise emissions …

Unsteady component interaction represents a crucial topic in turbomachinery design and
analysis. Combustor/turbine interaction is one of the most widely studied topics both using …

Recently developed lean-burn combustors offer reduced NO x emissions for gas turbines.
The flow at exit of lean-burn combustors is dominated by hot streaks and residual swirl …

High-pressure turbine (HPT) rotor blades work in a harsh environment with high temperature
and rotational speed. Affected by blade row interaction and inlet non-uniformities, the rotor …

In mass customization, a manufacturing line is required to be kept in reliable operation to
handle product demand volatility and potential machine degradations. Recent advances in …

The adoption of lean-burn technology in modern aero-engines influences the already critical
aerothermal conditions at turbine entry, where the absence of dilution holes preserves the …

This paper presents an investigation of the aerothermal performance of a modern
unshrouded high-pressure (HP) aero-engine turbine subject to nonuniform inlet temperature …

This paper presents experimental measurements and computational predictions of surface
and end wall heat transfer for a high-pressure (HP) nozzle guide vane operating as part of a …

Gas turbines play an important role in power generation and propulsion. The simplification
of the real-engine condition during turbine design results in substandard gas turbine …