SUMMARY

Modern day flow path design and optimization tools provide designers with new and powerful capabilities to analyze, compare and weight numerous design solutions based on myriad of variables.

While no design may be optimally “perfect” those capabilities the gas turbine communities now possess give them the opportunity to approach the design process in a whole new manners just as described in the title of this paper, “Advanced Gas Turbine Concept, Design and Evaluation Methodology”

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