Computational design of a louver particle separator for gas turbine engines

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 3, Issue PART B, 2009, Pages 1313-1323

  Musgrove, Grant O ^a   Barringer, Michael D ^a   Thole, Karen A ^a   Grover, Eric ^b   Barker, Joseph ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PRATT AND WHITNEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN; COOLING CHANNELS; ENGINE PERFORMANCE; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; GAS PATH; GAS TURBINE ENGINE; INERTIAL PARTICLES; INERTIAL SEPARATORS; INTERNAL COOLING; MELTING TEMPERATURES; PARTICLE COLLECTOR; PRESSURE LOSS; SMALL PARTICLES; SOLID PARTICLES; THERMAL COATINGS;

COATINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GAS TURBINES; JET ENGINES; MACHINE DESIGN; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; SEPARATORS;

THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS;

EID: 77953215690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2009-60199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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