Large Eddy simulation of flow and heat transfer in the developing flow region of a rotating gas turbine blade internal cooling duct with coriolis and buoyancy forces

Journal of Turbomachinery

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Sewall, Evan A ^a   Tafti, Danesh K ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; DUCTS; EDDY CURRENTS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID MECHANICS; GAS TURBINE LOCOMOTIVES; GAS TURBINE POWER PLANTS; GAS TURBINES; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING EQUIPMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION; THERMOANALYSIS; TURBINES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; TURBOMACHINERY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BUOYANCY FORCING; CORIOLIS; DEVELOPING FLOW; EDDY SIMULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER AUGMENTATION; INTERNAL COOLING DUCT; LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS (LES); MAINSTREAM (MS); REYNOLDS (CO); ROTATION NUMBERS; ROTATION RATES; SEPARATED REGIONS; TURBINE BLADES; WALL HEAT TRANSFER;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EID: 47649087083     PISSN: 0889504X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2437779     Document Type: Article

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