Engineering
Optimizing Gas Turbine Blade Cooling with Computational Fluid Dynamics
Quick fact
By using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), engineers can design internal cooling channels that keep blade temperatures below the material's melting point, even when the gas entering the turbine is hotter than the metal's melting temperature.
Why this is interesting
Inside a jet engine, the turbine blades operate at temperatures that would melt the metal. So how do they survive?