Nanofluids, because of their enhanced heat transfer capability as compared to normal
water/glycol/oil based fluids, offer the engineer opportunities for development in areas …

Heat transfer enhancement capabilities of coolants with suspended metallic nanoparticles
inside typical radial flow cooling systems are numerically investigated in this paper. The …

The book is devoted to investigation of a series of problems of convective heat and mass
transfer in rotating-disk systems. Such systems are widespread in scientific and engineering …

Pre-swirl system has an indispensable role to supply enough cooling air with appropriate
pressure, temperature, and mass flow rate to improve the life and the efficiency of turbine …

Heat transfer continues to be a major field of interest to engineering and scientific
researchers, as well as designers, developers, and manufacturers. Considerable effort has …

The pre-swirl system has the ability to decrease the air supply temperature so as to improve
the cooling performance and the operating life for turbine rotating blade. In this paper, a test …

It is common practice to employ thermochromic liquid crystal (TLC) to determine heat
transfer coefficients, h, in transient experiments. The method relies on the solution of …

In a “direct-transfer” pre-swirl supply system, cooling air flows axially across the wheel-space
from stationary pre-swirl nozzles to receiver holes located at a similar radius in the rotating …

In a pre-swirl cooling air delivery system for gas turbine, the function of rotating receiver hole
is to receive the highly swirled flow from pre-swirl nozzle and direct it to the turbine blade …

Pre-swirl system has strong potential to improve the cooling performance and service life of
high-pressure turbine rotor blades in gas turbine engines. This study is to evaluate and …