{"465261":{"#nid":"465261","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GT-AE Presents: Dr. Tom Shih","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering invites interested faculty and students to hear this talk by Dr. Tom Shih, professor and head of the School of Astronautics at Purdue University.\u0026nbsp; The talk will focus on turbine cooling. Dr. Shih will give examples of CFD\/HT validation\u0026nbsp; to illustrate capabilities and limitations of well-known turbulence models via steady \u0026amp; unsteady RANS and to show problems where LES is needed as well as problems associated with LES.\u0026nbsp; He will also deliver results that show the challenges of cooling turbine material when heating loads increase suddenly and the effects of averaging the heat-transfer coefficient from CFD\/HT or experimental measurements on the predicted cooling requirement.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Shih will give an overview of turbine cooling and addressing some of the challenges and opportunities, and focusing on issues that affect the reliability of CFD\/HT in the design and analysis of turbine-cooling strategies.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Purdue University\u0027s Tom Shih will give a talk entitled \u0022Gas-Turbine Heat Transfer: Challenges \u0026 Opportunities\u0022"}],"uid":"27836","created_gmt":"2015-11-02 12:45:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:14:39","author":"Kathleen Moore","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-11-05T19:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-11-05T20:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-11-05T20:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-11-06 00:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-11-06 01:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-11-06 01:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"146541","name":"CFD"},{"id":"128471","name":"gas turbine systems"},{"id":"146551","name":"HT"},{"id":"146531","name":"mechanical energy"},{"id":"146521","name":"thermal energy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}