Film Cooling Enhancement by Secondary Flow Injection

Chapter one presents an introduction to the importance of gas turbine blade cooling, the concepts of film cooling process, and the different techniques used in the cooling process. Chapter two gives a review of the published literature while the experimental setup and measurement techniques are reported in chapter three. The computational analysis and its governing equations are presented in chapter four. Chapter five includes the results and the various discussions. Drawn conclusions and recommendations are pointed out in chapter six

Ahmed Abdelhady, works an assistant Lecturer at Qena, Faculty of Engineering, South Valley University. He received his B.S. and M.S.degree from the Mechanical Power Engineering and Energy Department,faculty of Engineering, Minia University. He entered the PhD program in the November 2008,Minia University.