Reid, Terry Vincent2014-03-142014-03-141998-04-30etd-011099-132537http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25983The effects of shock wave impact on unsteady turbine heat transfer are investigated. A numerical approach is developed to simulate the flow physics present in a previously performed unsteady wind tunnel experiment. The windtunnel experiment included unheated and heated flows over a cascade of highly loaded turbine blades. After the flow over the blades was established, a single shock with a pressure ratio of 1.1 was introduced into the wind tunnel test section. A single blade was equipped with pressure transducers and heat flux microsensors. As the shock wave strikes the blade, time resolved pressure, temperature, and heat transfer data were recorded.In CopyrightUnsteadycomputationsheat fluxDissertationhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-011099-132537/