The two new facilities have been installed and operated at their design or rated conditions. The important feature of both of these facilities is that the ratio of turbine inlet temperature to coolant temperature encountered in high temperature engines can be duplicated at moderate turbine inlet temperature. Included in the discussion are the limits of the facilities with regard to maximum temperature, maximum pressure, maximum mass flow rate, turbine size, and dynamometer torque-speed characteristics.
Description of the Warm Core Turbine Facility and the Warm Annular Cascade Facility Recently Installed at NASA Lewis Research Center
Sae Technical Papers
Aerospace Congress and Exposition ; 1980
1980-09-01
Conference paper
English