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.
Turbine blades with winglet tips increase heat transfer and reduce tip losses. To know more about winglet tips, visit GridPro blog.
Squealer tips provide a solution to various challenges in the tip gap region, such as reducing tip leakage flow and protecting blade tips from high-temperature gases. Further, they also improve design clearance through their sealing properties.
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