Effects of Realistic Combustor Exit Profiles on a Turbine Vane Endwall

Engine designers continually push the combustor exit temperature higher to produce more power from gas turbine engines. These high turbine inlet temperatures, coupled with high turbulence levels and flow field non-uniformities, make turbine vane and endwall cooling a very critical issue in engine d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colban, William Frederick IV
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31013
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01212002-125600/