Fluid flow and surface heat transfer analysis in a three‐pass trapezoidal blade cooling channel

1999 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Cravero ◽  
C. Giusto ◽  
A.F. Massardo
Author(s):  
Dieter E. Bohn ◽  
Volker J. Becker ◽  
Karsten A. Kusterer ◽  
Yokiu Otsuki ◽  
Takao Sugimoto ◽  
...  

Modern cooling configurations for turbine blades include complex serpentine-shaped cooling channel geometries for internal-forced convective cooling. The channels are ribbed in order to enhance the convective beat transfer. The design of such cooling configurations is within the power of modem CFD-codes with combined heat transfer analysis in solid body regions. One approach is the conjugate fluid flow and heat transfer solver, CHT-Flow, developed at the Institute of Steam and Gas Turbines, Aachen University of Technology. It takes into account of the mutual influences of internal and external fluid flow and heat transfer. The strategy of the procedure is based on a multi-block-technique and a direct coupling module for fluid flow regions and solid body regions. The configuration under investigation in the present paper is based on a test design of a convective cooled turbine blade with serpentine-shaped cooling passages and cooling gas ejection at the blade tip and the trailing edge. The numerical investigations focus on secondary flow phenomena in the ducts and on the heat transfer analysis at the cooling channel walls. In the first part, the cooling channels are investigated with adiabatic smooth & ribbed walls. The calculations are carried out for the stationary and rotating configuration. Concerning the heat transfer analysis, the results of the ribbed configuration with a fixed thermal boundary condition at the walls in the stationary case are presented. Furthermore, in order to demonstrate the capability of the conjugate method to work without thermal boundary conditions, the cooling configuration is calculated including the external blade flow and the blade walls with internal and external heat transfer under typical operation conditions of gas turbines. The numerical code is used to determine the blade surface temperatures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-256
Author(s):  
Longfei Wang ◽  
Fengbo Wen ◽  
Songtao Wang ◽  
Xun Zhou ◽  
Zhongqi Wang

AbstractThe numerical simulations are used to conduct the comparative study of pin-fins cooling channel and multi-impingement cooling channel on the heat transfer and flow, and to design the multi-impingement channel through the parameters of impinging distance and impingement-jet-plate thickness. The Reynolds number ranges from 1e4 to 6e4. The dimensionless impinging distance is 0.60, 1.68, 2.76, respectively, and the dimensionless impinging-jet-thickness is 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, respectively. The endwall surface, pin-fins surface, impinging-jet-plate surface are the three object surfaces to investigate the channel heat transfer performance. The heat transfer coefficient $h$ and augmentation factor $Nu/N{u_0}$ are selected to measure the surface heat transfer, and the friction coefficient $f$ is chosen to evaluate the channel flow characteristics. The impinging-jet-plate surface owns higher heat transfer coefficient and larger area than pin-fins surface, which are the main reasons to improve the heat transfer performance of multi-impingement cooling channel. Reducing the impinging distance can improve the endwall surface heat transfer obviously and enhance impingement plate surface heat transfer to some extent, decreasing the thickness of impinging-jet-plate can significantly increase its own heat transfer coefficient, which both all increase the cooling air flow loss.


Author(s):  
Hamn-Ching Chen ◽  
Je-Chin Han

Numerical predictions of three-dimensional flow and heat transfer are presented for non-rotating and rotating turbine blade cooling passages with or without the rib turbulators. A multi-block Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes method was employed in conjunction with a near-wall second-moment closure to provide detailed velocity, pressure, and temperature distributions as well as Reynolds stresses and turbulent heat fluxes in various cooling channel configurations. These numerical results were systematically evaluated to determine the effect of blade rotation, coolant-to-wall density ratio, rib shape, channel aspect ratio and channel orientation on the generation of flow turbulence and the enhancement of surface heat transfer in turbine blade cooling passages. The second-moment solutions show that the secondary flow induced by the angled ribs, centrifugal buoyancy, and Coriolis forces produced strong nonisotropic turbulent stresses and heat fluxes that significantly affected flow field and surface heat transfer coefficients.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Sanskar Singh ◽  
Vandana Singh ◽  
Kajol Kumari

A computational fluid dynamics analysis of steel plate using volume of fluid multiphase model moving at different velocity i.e. 0.1 to 1 m/sec with 0.1 m/sec interval. From the above concluding points it has been observed that heat flux increased for the steel plate moving at 0.1 m/sec. During quenching process the surface heat transfer coefficient increases at first. And when plate surface temperature is nearly 420 oC, surface heat transfer coefficients reach the maximum value of about 15000 W/(m2K). And then, The calculated heat transfer coefficients are applied to analyze plate temperature field of different thicknesses, and the difference between the calculated and measured temperature is less than 35 %.


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