Performing Member Contact:

Mo Taslim, Professor

Northeastern University
MIME Department, 334 SN
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617-373-5514/FAX 617-373-2921
m.taslim@neu.edu

• Experimental and Numerical Heat Transfer Related to the Gas Turbine Cooling Technology

• Convective, Impingement and Film Cooling in Subsonic and Transonic Conditions

• The transonic experimental heat transfer facility consists of two rotary vane compressors and two blowers that provide air at a pressure range of 15 to 120 psia and a mass flow rate of up to 4 lbs/s . The data acquisition system includes a 32 -Channel Pressure Scanning Valve system, a TSI IFA 100 Constant Temperature Anemometer (CTA) and corresponding Digitizer, LaView data acquisition software, a range of digital video cameras with corresponding image capturing software and hardware and a series of critical venturi-meters for a range of mass flow rate measurements. The steady-state transonic plenum can house cascades of airfoils for aerodynamic and heat transfer testing. Film cooling tests of airfoils are accomplished through the use if foreign gases such as carbon dioxide or sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). Research in different areas of gas turbine cooling technology has been conducted for the past eighteen years and has been funded by GE, Wright-Patterson A.F.B and Siemens-Westinghouse.