University Stuttgart, founded in 1829, has more than 140 institutes, distributed over 10 faculties, employs almost 5000 people and caters for some 20,000 students – among them 3000 young women and men from all over the world. Since 1911 the university has an academic research path in aerospace engineering. The Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics (ITLR) is part of the faculty of aviation and aerospace engineering and geodesy at the university. The institute has about 30 scientists and about 15 non-scientific employees and several testing equipment. Research topics of the institute are: heat transfer and gas turbine cooling, aerothermodynamics, droplet dynamics, supersonic combustion and shock tube research. At the institute, experimental and numerical investigations for cooling of gas turbine components are carried out for many years. These research activities include detailed procedures for determination of local heat transfer characteristics based on thermo-chromic liquid crystals (TLC) or infrared thermography using transient and steady measurement methods. Image processing for data capture and analysis, numerical methods and equipment used for this purpose are available and have been applied successfully in a variety of research projects.
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