Video: Karen A. Thole, George Westinghouse Gold Medal, 2015
Video: Karen A. Thole, George Westinghouse Gold Medal, 2015
Dr. Karen A. Thole received the George Westinghouse Gold Medal for outstanding contributions toward better cooling of gas turbine airfoils, particularly the discovery of a leading-edge fillet to reduce vortices in airfoil passages, and the development of physics-based correlations used by industry for predicting microchannel cooling and film cooling.
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