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Karen A. Thole
Researcher at Pennsylvania State University
Publications - 249
Citations - 7145
Karen A. Thole is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Heat transfer & Turbine. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 227 publications receiving 6091 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen A. Thole include Virginia Tech & University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Gas Turbine Film Cooling
David G. Bogard,Karen A. Thole +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the literature on the effects of freestream turbulence, surface curvature, and hole shape on the performance of film cooling is presented in this article. But, it is difficult to predict film cooling performance because of the inherent complex flowfields along the airfoil component surfaces in turbine engines.
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Flowfield Measurements for Film-Cooling Holes With Expanded Exits
TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of detailed flowfield measurements for three different single scaled-up hole geometries, all at a blowing ratio and density ratio of unity, is presented.
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Roughness Effects on Flow and Heat Transfer for Additively Manufactured Channels
TL;DR: In this article, pressure drop and heat transfer results of flow through small, as produced channels that have been manufactured using DMLS in an effort to better understand roughness were evaluated in 10 different coupons made with DMLs all having multiple rectangular channels.
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Adiabatic Effectiveness Measurements for a Baseline Shaped Film Cooling Hole
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a baseline shaped cooling hole design that includes the following features: hole inclination angle of 30° with a 7° expansion in the forward and lateral directions; hole length of 6 diameters; hole exit-to-inlet area ratio of 2.5; and lateral hole spacing of 6 diameter.
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Computational Design and Experimental Evaluation of Using a Leading Edge Fillet on a Gas Turbine Vane
G. A. Zess,Karen A. Thole +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a fillet is placed at the leading edge-endwall juncture of a guide vane to eliminate the horseshoe vortex, and flow field measurements are performed with a laser Doppler velocimeter in four planes orientated orthogonal to the vane.