A rotating facility to study heat transfer in the cooling passages of turbine rotor blades

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-63

  Morris, W D ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centripetal buoyancy; Cooling channels; Coriolis forces; Gas turbine rotor blades; Heat transfer; Rotation

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COOLING SYSTEMS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GAS TURBINES; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; ROTATION; ROTORS; SPECIFIC HEAT OF GASES; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

CENTRIPETAL BUOYANCY; COOLING PASSAGES; CORIOLIS FORCES; ECCENTRICITY; ROTATION EFFECT; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TURBINE ROTOR BLADES;

HEAT TRANSFER;

BLADES; COOLING; HEAT TRANSFER; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; TURBINE;

EID: 0029732281     PISSN: 09576509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/PIME_PROC_1996_210_008_02     Document Type: Article

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