TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT i

ABSTRACT ii

TABLE OF CONTENTS iii

LIST OF TABLES v

LIST OF FIGURES vi

1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Working of Turbine 2

1.2 Turbine Blade 3

1.3 Turbine Materials 3

1.3.1 Titanium and Titanium Alloys 4

1.4 Need of turbine blade cooling 5

1.5 Turbine Blade Cooling 6

1.6 Methods of Cooling 6

1.6.1 Internal Cooling 7

1.6.2 External Cooling 8

1.7 Heat Distribution 9

2 LITERATURE SURVEY 11

3 GEOMETRY AND DESIGN 18

3.1 Turbine Blade Coordinates 18
3.2 Introduction to Design Software 18

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 3.3 Software Used 18
3.3.1 Catia 18

3.3.2 Catia in Aerospace 19

3.3.3 Advantages of Catia 20

FUTURE WORKS

APPENDIX

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 LIST OF TABLES

TABLE NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

1.1 Properties of Titanium 5

3.1 Design parameters of turbine blade 20

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 LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

1.1 Schematic of a Gas Turbine Engine 1

1.2 Cycles of Gas Turbines 2

1.3 Turbine Blade 3

1.4 Convection cooling 7

1.5 Impingement cooling 8

1.6 Film cooling 9

1.7 Heat flux distribution on Turbine Blades 10

2.1 Sabre engine 12

3.1 Isometric View of External Passage Lines 21

3.2 Isometric View of Blade Surface. 21

3.3 Internal Passages 22

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