Design of Thermal Barrier Coatings Thickness for Gas Turbine Blade Based on Finite Element Analysis

Figure 5

Temperature fields of the turbine blade (take model of 500 μm uniform top-coat thickness as example): (a) overall model (with TBCs), (b) pressure side of the substrate (without TBCs), and (c) suction side of the substrate (without TBCs).

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