High-Pressure-Turbine Clearance Control Systems: Current Practices and Future Directions

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 302-311

  Lattime, Scott B ^a,b   Steinetz, Bruce M ^b  

^a OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPRESSORS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; COOLING; EROSION; FUEL CONSUMPTION; REDUCTION; SEALING (CLOSING); TURBINES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

SPECIFIC FUEL CONSUMPTION (SFC); WEAR MECHANISMS;

HIGH PRESSURE TURBOMACHINERY;

EID: 1842787836     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.9255     Document Type: Review

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