About AITEB-2
Research and development in Europe’s aero engine and gas turbine industry is driven by increasing environmental, safety and reliability requirements. Demands for reduced design costs and shorter design cycles are combined with strong competitive pressure from the global gas turbine industry. CFD design tools currently available for industry constitute the state of the art capability in predicting 2D and 3D flows in turbine components. However, the deployment of complex heat transfer, separated flow and cooling concept problems creates severe limitations when handling real geometries.

The technical objectives of AITEB-2 are to develop correlations and cooling technologies for complex flows and to verify and improve new cooling concepts for turbine endwalls. Experimental data will be used to improve current design methods by correlations and develop the modelling and process capabilities of CFD.

The project outcome will encourage the more efficient use of cooling flows and improved component designs. This will help the gas turbine industry respond to growing pressures in efficiency, design costs and emission limits.

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