Turbine Blade Cooling & Blade Design

This course covers the comprehensive understanding of turbine blade cooling technologies and their design. For instance, the course starts with the fundamentals of turbine machinery aerodynamics, focusing on axial turbines and the importance of turbine blade cooling. It then explores the basic thermodynamics principles, two-dimensional flow, and analysis in axial turbines. The course also delves into the history of cooling technologies, their evolution, and the different types of cooling technologies used in gas turbine engines. Furthermore, it discusses the design and operation of turbine blades, the theories behind axial flow turbines, and the aerodynamic principles they operate on. Lastly, the course covers the intricate process of axial flow turbine design in 3D, emphasizing the importance of using airfoil profiles, databanks, and simple theories in the design process.