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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?