Abstract: Numerical results are presented for a three-dimensional discrete-jet in crossflow problem typical of a realistic film-cooling application in gas turbines. Key aspects of the study include: (1) ...

Abstract: Extensive numerical analyses and experiments have been conducted to understand mixing phenomena in multistage, axial-flow compressors. For the first time in the literature the following are ...

Abstract: Large-scale computational analyses have been conducted and results compared with experiments to understand coolant jet and crossflow interaction in discrete-jet film cooling. Detailed three-dimensional ...

Abstract: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used to isolate the flow physics responsible for hot crossflow ingestion, a phenomenon that can cause failure of a film cooled gas turbine component. In ...

Abstract: The physics of the film cooling process for shaped, streamwise-injected, inclined jets is studied for blowing ratio (M=1.25,1.88), density ratio (DR=1.6), and length-to-diameter ratio (L/D=4) ...

Abstract: The flow physics of film cooling with compound-angle shaped holes is documented for realistic gas turbine parameters. For the first time in the open literature, the combined effects of ...

Abstract: A previously documented systematic computational methodology is implemented and applied to a jet-in-crossflow problem in order to document all of the pertinent flow physics associated with a ...

Abstract: Detailed analyses of computational simulations with comparisons to experimental data were performed to identify and explain the dominant flow mechanisms responsible for film cooling performance ...