Heat Transfer and Cooling Technology of Gas Turbines
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "J: Thermal Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 9
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heat transfer
Interests: numerical simulation; fluid mechanics; computational fluid mechanics; turbomachinery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the core power equipment for energy-efficient conversion and clean utilisation, gas turbines have been widely used in energy power, transportation, ship power, aerospace, and other fields. With the continuous development of gas turbine technology, the turbine inlet temperature of the new generation of high-efficiency zero-emission gas turbines can reach 2000K, and now far exceeds the allowable temperature of superalloy material of typical turbine components, such as guide vanes, blades, and discs. The gap between the two means that more advanced cooling structures need to be used to ensure the safe operation of blades in high-temperature environments. Today, turbine cooling technology has become one of the bottleneck technologies restricting the development of high-performance gas turbines, and it is urgent to carry out fine analyses and designs of the internal and external flow and heat transfer of turbine blades. For these reasons, we invite submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject of ‘Heat Transfer and Cooling Technology of Gas Turbines’.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the testing, modelling, design, matching, and application of gas turbine cooling.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- All aspects of advanced cooling for guide vanes, rotation blades, and discs of gas turbines, experimental test technology for the flow and heat transfer of turbines, among others;
- Advanced cooling technology;
- Measurement technology of turbine hot-end component cooling tests;
- Experimental and numerical simulations of two-phase flow and heat transfer;
- Phase-change evaporative cooling;
- High-precision numerical analyses of complex turbulent flow;
- Impingement cooling;
- Film cooling;
- Heat transfer enhancement;
- Gas–thermal coupling analysis;
- Advanced cooling structure design and matching technology;
- New technology related to efficient heat transfer.
Applications may cover gas turbines, aero engines, rocket engines, propulsion systems, energy conversion systems, etc. Particularly, articles that deal with the latest topics on the new development of heat transfer, high-efficiency cooling, and advanced test technology for gas turbines are much encouraged. We intend to inspire both academic and industrial researchers to present their latest findings on gas turbine cooling technology and its associated applications to provide readers with a comprehensive, unbiased, and scientifically sound overview of the most recent research and technological developments.
Dr. Dehai Kong
Dr. Gang Xie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gas turbine
- vanes, blades, and discs
- cooling technology
- heat transfer
- film cooling
- turbulent flow
- measurement technology
- modelling
- design
- multifield coupling
- stress
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