Due to the requirement for enhanced cooling technologies on modern gas turbine engines, advanced research and development has had to take place in field of thermal engineering. Among the gas turbine cooling technologies, impingement jet cooling is one of the most effective in terms of cooling effectiveness, manufacturability and cost. The chapters contained in this book describe research on state-of-the-art and advanced cooling technologies that have been developed, or that are being researched, with a variety of approaches from theoretical, experimental, and CFD studies. The authors of the chapters have been selected from some of the most active researchers and scientists on the subject. This is the first to book published on the topics of gas turbines and heat transfer to focus on impingement cooling alone.

An investigation of the flow pattern immediately downstream of an annular cascade of nozzle blades designed for vortex-type velocity distribution and hub discharge angle of approximately 65 degrees from axial was conducted in order to obtain a better understanding of the processes by which the distribution of losses and deviations from design turning angle occur. For the two Mach numbers investigated, the loass region at the outer shroud decreased while that at the inner shroud increased with increasing Mach number.