Improving the conceptual design of turbine rotor blade cooling systems

Proceedings ICED 05, the 15th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn DS 35, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bell, C P ^a   Dawes, W N ^a   Jarrett, J P ^a   Clarkson, P J ^a  

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Author keywords

Conceptual design; Cooling; Decision support; Design space exploration; Turbine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862596972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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