Research Article

Film Cooling Optimization Using Numerical Computation of the Compressible Viscous Flow Equations and Simplex Algorithm

Table 3

Comparison of turbine blade film cooling effectiveness for different hole shapes.

Hole shapeLFDSA-0-0LFDSA-5-5LFDSA-9.3-14.6

Turbine blade average overall film cooling effectiveness ( )0.1360.1510.170