Turbine Blade Heat Flux (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Turbine Blade Heat Flux

Caption

This visualization shows the instantaneous wall heat flux on the suction surface of turbine blades in a high-pressure turbine engine. The levels of surface roughness in the leading-edge region are increasing from left to right. 

Credit

Thomas Jelly, University of Melbourne in Australia

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Public Domain

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