A conjugate heat transfer solver has been developed and applied to a realistic film-cooled
turbine vane for a variety of blade materials. The solver used for the fluid convection part of …

Accurate temperature predictions are essential to the optimization of gas turbine component
design. This paper provides an update on the application of recent developments in heat …

An efficient finite element analysis/computational fluid dynamics (FEA/CFD) thermal
coupling technique has been developed and demonstrated. The thermal coupling is …

The prediction of the heat transfer between a fluid and a solid object, known as conjugate
heat transfer, is a very common problem in engineering sciences. This work investigates …

This paper presents a numerical investigation of the heat transfer inside a micro gas turbine
and its impact on the performance. The large temperature difference between turbine and …

This contribution focuses on the conjugate heat transfer computation of a rib-roughened
internal turbine blade cooling channel with a blockage ratio of 0.3 and a Reynolds number …

This first paper describes the conjugate heat transfer (CHT) method and its application to the
performance and lifetime prediction of a high pressure turbine blade operating at a very high …

This paper presents the transient aerothermal analysis of a gas turbine internal air system
through an engine flight cycle featuring multiple fluid cavities that surround a HP turbine disk …

Considerable progress in development and application of computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) for aeroengine internal flow systems has been made in recent years. CFD is regularly …

This paper examines the application of a newly developed code, which couples a
commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code (FLUENT) directly to an in-house finite …