Gas Turbine Heat Transfer and Cooling

Course content

Overview of gas turbine systems and the need of cooling. Hot gas path heat transfer. Turbine blade film cooling and its performance. Turbine blade internal cooling and cooling concepts. Effects of geometric features and flow characteristics on heat transfer. Compressor rotor and stator heat transfer. Turbine rotor, stator, and casing heat transfer. Combustor heat transfer. Thermal management of nacelle, fan, and undercowl. Experimental and computational techniques used for gas turbine flows and heat transfer.