In the current work, different methods for optimization of turbine blade internal cooling are investigated, to achieve higher cyclic efficiency and output power for a typical gas turbine. A simple two-dimensional model of C3X blade is simulated and validated with available experimental data. The optimization process is performed on this model with two different methods. The first method is ...

1.1 Background Earth’s evolution reflects the history of heat transfer from the interior [53, 1101 via the fundamental processes of plate tectonics, conduction through continental lithosphere, and hotspot volcanism [103]. As a result, considerable attention has been directed toward understanding Earth’s thermal history, the variation in the temperature field in space and tune. The primary direc...

Temperature is an important parameter controlling protein crystal growth. A new temperature-screening system (Thermo-screen) is described consisting of a gradient thermocycler fitted with a special crystallization-plate adapter onto which a 192-well sitting-drop crystallization plate can be mounted (temperature range 277-372 K; maximum temperature gradient 20 K; interval precision 0.3 K). The s...