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Three-dimensional streamlines visualizing the flow around a turbine blade with winglet tips, showing how the winglet alters tip leakage, redirects vortical structures, and shapes the overall aerodynamic flow pattern.

Cooling the Hot Turbine Blade with Winglet Tips

Turbine blades with winglet tips increase heat transfer and reduce tip losses. To know more about winglet tips, visit GridPro blog.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyJanuary 10, 2024November 20, 2025Leave a comment

Structured multiblock mesh generated for a turbine blade with squealer tips, showing refined grid resolution along the squealer rim and cavity region to capture tip leakage flow and associated vortical structures accurately.

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Innovative Turbine Blade Tips to Reduce Tip Leakage Flow

Revolutionary turbine blade tip designs are critical for minimizing tip leakage losses in gas turbines. Several innovative designs, such as flat tips, squealer tips, tips with winglets and honeycomb cavities, have shown the potential to mitigate this problem.

By Ravindra KrishnamurthyJanuary 10, 2024November 20, 20251 Comment