...Issei Fukamizu; Kazuhiko Komatsu; Masayuki Sato; Hiroaki Kobayashi The information of the degree of blade erosion is vital for the efficient operation of steam turbines. However, it is nearly impossible to directly measure the degree of blade erosion during operation. Moreover, collecting...

... aerospace industry ash computational fluid dynamics gas turbines jet engines gas turbine blade erosion particle transport sand ingestion Jet engines are often operated in hostile environments that cause significant amount of ingestion of fine particulate matter, such as sand, gravel...