Improving the turbine cooling conceptual design process

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 6, Issue PART C, 2008, Pages 2631-2640

  Bell, Chris ^a   Clarkson, John P ^a   Dawes, William N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELS; COMPUTER MODELS; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; COOLANT FLOW; DESIGN SPACES; PROTOTYPE MODELS; SYSTEM REPRESENTATION; TURBINE BLADE COOLING; TURBINE COOLING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; COOLANTS; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; TURBINES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 69949172504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2008-51285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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