An Innovative Turbine Blade Cooling Technology and Micro/Miniature Heat Pipes for Turbine Blades

Abstract

Radially rotating miniature heat pipes for turbine blade cooling are studied by employing appropriate flow and heat transfer modeling as well as experimental tests. Extensive experimental tests on the heat pipes with different influential parameters are undertaken under a constructed high-speed rotating apparatus, and various effects of these parameters on the heat pipe performance are searched. Comprehensive analytical solutions for the heat pipe performance are also obtained, which are in very good agreement with the experimental data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 15, 2000
Accession Number
ADA381455

Entities

People

  • Yiding Cao

Organizations

  • Florida International University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Flow
  • Convection
  • Data Acquisition
  • Energy
  • Gas Turbines
  • Geometry
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Pipes
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Devices
  • Measurement
  • Pipes
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Turbine Blades
  • Turbines
  • Turbomachinery

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation