Abstract: Ranque–Hilsch vortex tubes have the extraordinary ability to split an incoming stream of fluid into two streams—one with a lower absolute total temperature than the incoming flow and the other with greater total temperature. ...

Abstract: High-performance gas turbine engines rely on intricate cooling schemes to protect turbine components from the high-temperature freestream gas. Determining the optimal placement of film cooling holes in optimal locations ...

Abstract: The Ranque–Hilsch vortex tube is a device that splits an incoming flow into two outgoing streams, but with the peculiar property that one stream exits at a lower total temperature than the incoming flow and the other at a ...

Abstract: The classical method of superposition has been used for several decades to provide an estimate of the adiabatic effectiveness for multiple sets of already well-characterized film cooling hole rows. In this way, design work ...

Abstract: The surface temperature of a film cooled turbine hot gas path component is typically nondimensionalized according to the overall effectiveness. This nondimensionalization scheme takes advantage of the fact that the surface ...