TY - JFULL AU - Chandrakant R Kini and Satish Shenoy B and Yagnesh Sharma N. PY - 2012/11/ TI - Computational Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of HP Stage Turbine Blade Cooling: Effect of Turbulator Geometry in Helicoidal Cooling Duct T2 - International Journal of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering SP - 2258 EP - 2266 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10394 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 70, 2012 N2 - In a bid to improve turbine entry temperature for maximizing the thermal efficiency of the HP stage gas turbine blade, an attempt is made in this paper to compare the performance of helicoidal ducted blade cooling with turbulator of different geometric proportion. It is found from analysis that there is significant improvement in cooling characteristics for turbine blade with turbulator geometry having larger e/D ratio. Also it is found from analysis, performance is vastly improved for greater thickness of turbulator geometry. ER -