Digital particle image thermometry/velocimetry (DPIT/V) is a relatively new methodology that
allows for measurements of simultaneous temperature and velocity within a two-dimensional …

Impingement and film cooling techniques are emerging areas in the turbine component
cooling technology. Vast amount of information on this subject is available in the literature …

Liquid crystals have become an accurate and convenient means of measuring surface
temperature and heat transfer for the gas turbine and heat transfer research communities …

Cast impingement cooling geometries offer the gas turbine designer higher structural
integrity and improved convective cooling when compared to traditional impingement …

The transient method of measuring heat transfer coefficients that uses liquid crystals, since
its beginnings in the early 1980s, has become one of the best ways of determining full …

Liquid crystal thermography (LCT) has been widely used for the determination of surface
heat transfer distribution. However, this technique is sensitive to illumination and viewing …

An advanced evaluation method for transient heat transfer experiments using
thermochromic liquid crystals (TLCs) combining the advantages of standard hue and …

There are a variety of phenomena which may impact the accuracy of wide-band
thermochromic liquid crystal temperature measurements, including: irregularities in liquid …

This paper presents convective heat transfer measurements on the endwall of a turbine
blade cascade by means of the liquid crystal thermography. The measurement method is …

The aim of this paper is to present two techniques for simply and accurately determining
space-variable heat transfer coefficient, given measurements of temperature at some interior …