Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics of a High Rim Speed Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane Tested in the RAE Isentropic Light Piston Cascade (ILPC)

1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Harasgama ◽  
E. T. Wedlake
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Mach Number ◽  
Guide Vane ◽  
Weak Shock ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Nozzle Guide ◽  
Annular Cascade ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vanes

Detailed heat transfer and aerodynamic measurements have been made on an annular cascade of highly loaded nozzle guide vanes. The tests were carried out in an Isentropic Light Piston test facility at engine representative Reynolds number, Mach number, and gas-to-wall temperature ratio. The aerodynamics indicate that the vane has a weak shock at 65–70 percent axial chord (midspan) with a peak Mach number of 1.14. The influence of Reynolds number and Mach number on the Nusselt number distributions on the vane and endwall surfaces are shown to be significant. Computational techniques are used for the interpretation of test data.

Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics of a High Rim Speed Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane Tested in the RAE Isentropic Light Piston Cascade (ILPC)

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Harasgama ◽  
E. T. Wedlake
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Mach Number ◽  
Guide Vane ◽  
Weak Shock ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Nozzle Guide ◽  
Annular Cascade ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vanes

Detailed heat transfer and aerodynamic measurements have been made on an annular cascade of highly loaded nozzle guide vanes. The tests were carried out in an Isentropic Light Piston test facility at engine representative Reynolds number, Mach number and gas-to-wall temperature ratio. The aerodynamics indicate that the vane has a weak shock at 65–70% axial chord (mid span) with a peak Mach number of 1.14. The influence of Reynolds number and Mach number on the Nusselt number distributions on the vane and endwall surfaces are shown to be significant. Computational techniques are used for the interpretation of test data.

Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics of a High Rim Speed Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane With Profiled End Walls

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Chana
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Mach Number ◽  
Guide Vane ◽  
Secondary Flows ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Suction Surface ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vane ◽  
Nozzle Guide ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vanes

It has been shown that the secondary flows present within turbine nozzle guide vanes have a marked effect on heat transfer. The horse-shoe and passage vortices, for example, have a major impact on platform and vane suction surface heat transfer. To investigate these effects further, heat transfer and aerodynamic measurements have been made on an annular transonic turbine nozzle guide vane ring, with three different platform geometries. The measurements were taken in the Isentropic Light Piston test facility at RAE Pyestock at representative values of engine Reynolds number, Mach number and freestream gas-to-wall temperature ratio. This paper compares and discusses the measured platform and vane suction surface Nusselt and Mach number distributions for the three different endwall profiles. Comparisons with theoretical flow and heat transfer predictions are presented.

Film Cooling Research on the Endwall of a Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane in a Short Duration Annular Cascade: Part 1—Experimental Technique and Results

1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 734-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Harasgama ◽  
C. D. Burton
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Guide Vane ◽  
Density Ratio ◽  
Suction Side ◽  
Coolant Temperature ◽  
Guide Vanes ◽  
Nozzle Guide ◽  
Annular Cascade ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vanes

Heat transfer and aerodynamic measurements have been made on the endwalls of an annular cascade of turbine nozzle guide vanes in the presence of film cooling. The results indicate that high levels of cooling effectiveness can be achieved on the endwalls of turbine nozzle guide vanes (NGV). The NGV were operated at the correct engine nondimensional conditions of Reynolds number, Mach number, gas-to-wall temperature ratio, and gas-to-coolant density ratio. The results show that the secondary flow and horseshoe vortex act on the coolant, which is convected toward the suction side of the NG V endwall passage. Consequently the coolant does not quite reach the pressure side/casing trailing edge, leading to diminished cooling in this region. Increasing the blowing rate from 0.52 to 1.1 results in significant reductions in heat transfer to the endwall. Similar trends are evident when the coolant temperature is reduced. Measured heat transfer rates indicate that over most of the endwall region the film cooling reduces the Nusselt number by 50 to 75 percent.

scholarly journals Endwall Heat Transfer and Aerodynamic Measurements in an Annular Cascade of Nozzle Guide Vanes

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Spencer ◽  
G. D. Lock ◽  
T. V. Jones ◽  
N. W. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Mach Number ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Flow Visualisation ◽  
Surface Shear ◽  
Guide Vanes ◽  
Nozzle Guide ◽  
Annular Cascade ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vanes ◽  
Transient Liquid Crystal Technique

Aerodynamic and heat transfer measurements have been made on the hub and casing endwalls of an annular cascade of high pressure nozzle guide vanes. The measurements have been made over a range of engine representative Mach and Reynolds numbers and with large levels of freestream turbulence intensity. The transient liquid crystal technique has been employed, which has the advantage of yielding full surface maps of heat transfer coefficient. Computational predictions and aerodynamic measurements of Mach number distributions on the endwall surfaces are also presented, along with surface-shear flow visualisation using oil and dye techniques. The heat transfer results are discussed and interpreted in terms of the secondary flow and Mach number patterns.

Film Cooling Research on the Endwall of a Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane in a Short Duration Annular Cascade: Part 1 — Experimental Technique and Results

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Harasgama ◽  
C. D. Burton
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Guide Vane ◽  
Density Ratio ◽  
Suction Side ◽  
Coolant Temperature ◽  
Guide Vanes ◽  
Nozzle Guide ◽  
Annular Cascade ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vanes

Heat transfer and aerodynamic measurements have been made on the endwalls of an annular cascade of turbine nozzle guide vanes in the presence of film cooling. The results indicate that high levels of cooling effectiveness can be achieved on the endwalls of turbine nozzle guide vanes (NGV). The NGV were operated at the correct engine non-dimensional conditions of Reynolds number, Mach number, gas-to-wall temperature ratio and gas-to-coolant density ratio. The results show that the secondary flow and horse-shoe vortex act on the coolant which is converted towards the suction side of the NGV endwall passage. Consequently the coolant does not quite reach the pressure side/casing trailing edge, leading to diminished cooling in this region. Increasing the blowing rate from 0.52 to 1.1 results in significant reductions in heat transfer to the endwall. Similar trends are evident when the coolant temperature is reduced. Measured heat transfer rates indicate that over most of the endwall region the film cooling reduces the Nusselt number by 50% to 75%.

scholarly journals Unsteady phenomena at the combustor-turbine interface

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 202-215
Author(s):  
Faisal Shaikh ◽  
Budimir Rosic
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Guide Vane ◽  
Secondary Flows ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Unsteady Heat Transfer ◽  
Guide Vanes ◽  
Nozzle Guide ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vanes

The combustor-turbine interface in a gas turbine is characterised by complex, highly unsteady flows. In a combined experimental and large eddy simulation (LES) study including realistic combustor geometry, the standard model of secondary flows in the nozzle guide vanes (NGV) is found to be oversimplified. A swirl core is created in the combustion chamber which convects into the first vane passages. Four main consequences of this are identified: variation in vane loading; unsteady heat transfer on vane surfaces; unsteadiness at the leading edge horseshoe vortex, and variation in the position of the passage vortex. These phenomena occur at relatively low frequencies, from 50–300 Hz. It seems likely that these unsteady phenomena result in non-optimal film cooling, and that by reducing unsteadiness designs with greater cooling efficiency could be achieved. Measurements were performed in a high speed test facility modelling a large industrial gas turbine with can combustors, including nozzle guide vanes and combustion chambers. Vane surfaces and endwalls of a nozzle guide vane were instrumented with 384 high speed thin film heat flux gauges, to measure unsteady heat transfer. The high resolution of measurements was such to allow direct visualisation in time of large scale turbulent structures over the endwalls and vane surfaces. A matching LES simulation was carried out in a domain matching experimental conditions including upstream swirl generators and transition duct. Data reduction allowed time-varying LES data to be recorded for several cycles of the unsteady phenomena observed. The combination of LES and experimental data allows physical explanation and visualisation of flow events.

Aerodynamic and Heat Transfer Measurements on a Transonic Nozzle Guide Vane

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. T. Wedlake ◽  
A. J. Brooks ◽  
S. P. Harasgama
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Guide Vane ◽  
Local Heat Transfer ◽  
Local Heat ◽  
Work Capacity ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Transfer Rates ◽  
Improved Design ◽  
Nozzle Guide ◽  
Annular Cascade

Experimental determination of heat transfer rates to gas turbine blading plays an important part in the improvement of both the validation of existing design methods and the development of improved design codes. This paper describes a series of tests on an annular cascade of nozzle guide vanes designed for a high-work-capacity single-stage transonic turbine. The tests were carried out in the Isentropic Light Piston Cascade at the Royal Aerospace Establishment, Pyestock, and a brief description of this new test facility is included. Measurements of local heat transfer rates and aerodynamic data around the blade surface and on the end walls are described.

Heat Transfer Analysis of the Surface of Nonfilm-Cooled and Film-Cooled Nozzle Guide Vanes in Transonic Annular Cascade

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasem E. Ragab ◽  
Lamyaa El-Gabry
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Experimental Data ◽  
Guide Vane ◽  
Heat Transfer Analysis ◽  
Guide Vanes ◽  
Cfd Models ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vane ◽  
Nozzle Guide ◽  
Annular Cascade ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vanes

One of the approaches adopted to improve turbine efficiency and increase power to weight ratio is reducing vane count. In the current study, numerical analysis was performed for the heat transfer over the surface of nozzle guide vanes under the condition of reduced vane count using three dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models. The investigation has taken place in two stages: the baseline nonfilm-cooled nozzle guide vane, and the film-cooled nozzle guide vane. A finite volume based commercial code (ANSYS CFX 15) was used to build and analyze the CFD models. The investigated annular cascade has no heat transfer measurements available; hence in order to validate the CFD models against experimental data, two standalone studies were carried out on the NASA C3X vanes, one on the nonfilm-cooled C3X vane and the other on the film-cooled C3X vane. Different modelling parameters were investigated including turbulence models in order to obtain good agreement with the C3X experimental data, the same parameters were used afterwards to model the industrial nozzle guide vanes. Three Shear Stress Transport (SST) turbulence model variations were evaluated, the SST with Gamma-Theta transition model was found to yield the best agreement with the experimental results; model capabilities were demonstrated when the laminar to turbulent transition took place.

scholarly journals Wake Region Measurements of a Highly Three-Dimensional Nozzle Guide Vane Tested at DRA Pyestock Using Particle Image Velocimetry

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Funes-Gallanzi ◽  
P. J. Bryanston-Cross ◽  
K. S. Chana
Keyword(s):  
Flow Field ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Guide Vane ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Light Sheet ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Velocity Mapping ◽  
Nozzle Guide Vane ◽  
Nozzle Guide ◽  
Annular Cascade

The quantitative whole field flow visualization technique of PIV has over the last few years been successfully demonstrated for transonic flow applications. A series of such measurements has been made at DRA Pyestock. Several of the development stages critical to a full engine application of the work have now been achieved using the Isentropic Light Piston Cascade (ILPC) test facility operating with high inlet turbulence levels: • A method of seeding the flow with 0.5μm diameter styrene particles has provided an even coverage of the flow field. • A method of projecting a 1 mm thick high power Nd/YAG laser light sheet within the turbine stator cascade. This has enabled a complete instantaneous intra-blade velocity mapping of the flow field to be visualized, by a specially developed diffraction-limited optics arrangement. • Software has been developed to automatically analyze the data. Due to the sparse nature of the data obtained, a spatial approach to the extraction of the velocity vector data was employed. • Finally, a comparison of the experimental results with those obtained from a three-dimensional viscous flow program of Dawes; using the Baldwin-Lomax model for eddy viscosity and assuming fully turbulent flow. The measurements provide an instantaneous quantitative whole field visualization of a high-speed unsteady region of flow in a highly three-dimensional nozzle guide vane; which has been successfully compared with a full viscous calculation. This work represents the first such measurements to be made in a full-size transonic annular cascade at engine representative conditions.

An Investigation on Turbine Tip and Shroud Heat Transfer

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kam S. Chana ◽  
Terry V. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Guide Vane ◽  
Pressure Ratio ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Inlet Temperature ◽  
Turbine Stage ◽  
Pressure Distributions ◽  
Engine Design ◽  
Nozzle Guide

Detailed experimental investigations have been performed to measure the heat transfer and static pressure distributions on the rotor tip and rotor casing of a gas turbine stage with a shroudless rotor blade. The turbine stage was a modern high pressure Rolls-Royce aero-engine design with stage pressure ratio of 3.2 and nozzle guide vane (ngv) Reynolds number of 2.54E6. Measurements have been taken with and without inlet temperature distortion to the stage. The measurements were taken in the QinetiQ Isentropic Light Piston Facility and aerodynamic and heat transfer measurements are presented from the rotor tip and casing region. A simple two-dimensional model is presented to estimate the heat transfer rate to the rotor tip and casing region as a function of Reynolds number along the gap.

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