3D Printing for Better Gas Turbine Flame | The Cool Parts Show #42

The swirler is the component of a gas turbine engine that mixes air and fuel to feed a flame, while introducing turbulence and swirl, and also holding the flame in place. It performs in so many different ways at once that the design is difficult to optimize. However, additive manufacturing offers a way to rapidly produce and test different design ideas. In this episode of The Cool Parts Show, we see swirler design iterations made through laser powder bed fusion, and we meet the Penn State University researcher who is working with additive manufacturing graduate students to attack the problem of swirler optimization.

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LEARN MORE ABOUT:

- The machining and other steps needed to prepare these swirlers for testing (BONUS EPISODE):    • Prototyping Is More Than 3D Printing ...  

- Penn State Reacting Flow Dynamics Laboratory: https://sites.psu.edu/rfdl/

- The Penn State additive manufacturing masters program: https://www.additivemanufacturing.med...

- Laser powder bed fusion: https://www.additivemanufacturing.med...

- The Cool Parts Show #35 — 3D printed turbine blades: https://www.additivemanufacturing.med...

- The Cool Parts Show #30 — 3D printed rocket combustion chamber: https://www.additivemanufacturing.med...

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