Studies of Full-Coverage Film Cooling: Part 1 — Cooling Effectiveness of Thermally Conductive Wall

Author(s):  
N. Kasagi ◽  
M. Hirata ◽  
M. Kumada

The combined heat transfer/heat conduction tests were performed by adopting brass and acrylic resin as a material for the full-coverage film-cooled wall. The 30 deg-slant injection holes are distributed in the staggered array with the two kinds of hole pitches, which are five and ten hole diameters in the streamwise and lateral directions. The free stream velocity was varied as 10 and 20 m/s, respectively, and the measurement of wall surface temperature was made with the help of liquid crystal as a temperature indicator. From these experiments, basic data are given for the head loss coefficient across the FCFC plate as well as the local and averaged cooling effectiveness for each material tested. Finally the heat transfer characteristics of FCFC are discussed from the heat balance of unit hole element and a technique for higher cooling effectiveness is demonstrated.

Author(s):  
G. E. Andrews ◽  
M. L. Gupta ◽  
M. C. Mkpadi

The development of a test facility for investigating full coverage discrete hole wall cooling for gas turbine combustion chamber wall cooling is described. A low temperature test condition of 750K mainstream temperature and 300K coolant temperature was used to investigate the influence of coolant flow rate at a constant cross flow Mach number. Practical combustion conditions of 2100K combustor temperature and 700K coolant temperature are investigated to establish the validity of applying the low temperature results to practical conditions. For both situations a heat balance programme, taking into account the heat transfer within the wall was used to compute the film heat transfer coefficients. The mixing of the coolant air with the mainstream gases was studied through boundary layer temperature and CO2 profiles. It was shown that entrainment of hot flame gases between the injection holes resulted in a very low ‘adiabatic’ film cooling effectiveness.


Author(s):  
G. E. Andrews ◽  
A. A. Asere ◽  
M. L. Gupta ◽  
M. C. Mkpadi

The influence of hole size and hence blowing rate on full coverage discrete hole wall cooling for gas turbine combustion chamber applications was investigated. Two temperature conditions were used firstly a 750K gas temperature and 300K coolant, and secondly a realistic combustor primary zone conditions of 2100K flame temperature and 700K coolant. It was shown that a large hole size resulted in a significant improvement in the overall cooling effectiveness due to a reduced film heat transfer coefficient. At high temperature the cooling effectiveness was reduced due to radiative heat transfer from the flame gases. At low coolant flow large temperature increases of the coolant occurred within the wall and approached the transpiration situation.


Author(s):  
Yiping Lu ◽  
David Faucheaux ◽  
Srinath V. Ekkad

Film cooling performance for a row of cylindrical holes can be. The effect of the slot exit area and shape is investigated. Detailed heat transfer coefficient and film effectiveness measurements are obtained simultaneously using a single test transient IR thermography technique. The study is performed at a single mainstream Reynolds number based on free-stream velocity and film hole diameter of 7150 at three different coolant-to-mainstream blowing ratios of 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5. Two designs with a crescent shaped exit and a slot exit are considered. The results show that the crescent shaped exits provide significantly higher film cooling effectiveness than the cylindrical hole exit at all blowing ratios. The converging slot exit provides similar effectiveness as the crescent for higher blowing ratios. However, the crescent shape also enhances heat transfer coefficients significantly. Overall effectiveness for both crescent and converging slot exits are clearly superior to the standard cylindrical hole.


Author(s):  
Yiping Lu ◽  
Srinath V. Ekkad ◽  
Ronald S. Bunker

The present study is a continuation of an experimental investigation of film cooling from cylindrical holes embedded in transverse trenches. In this study, focus is on varying the downstream edge of the trench by angling it along the flow. Different edge angles are studied for the same trench depth. Also, the effect of hole spacing is considered for one of the standard trenches from previous studies to understand the effect of trenching on overall coolant usage. Detailed heat transfer coefficient and film effectiveness measurements are obtained simultaneously using a single test transient IR thermography technique. The study is performed at a single mainstream Reynolds number based on free-stream velocity and film hole diameter of 11000 at four different coolant-to-mainstream blowing ratios of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0. The results show that film effectiveness is greatly enhanced by the trenching due to improved two dimensional nature of the film and lateral spreading. The detailed heat transfer coefficient and film effectiveness contours provide a clear understanding of the jet-mainstream interactions for different hole orientations. The effect of edge angling is minimal on the overall cooling effectiveness but may have an impact on jet-mainstream interaction aerodynamic losses.


Author(s):  
A. Brown ◽  
C. L. Saluja

In this article the influence on film cooling effectiveness of injection from rows of holes into free streams regions with favorable, zero and adverse pressure gradients and turbulence intensities of 0.02 and 0.09 are shown. The effect of the presence of rows of holes on heat transfer from a surface is shown and the increase of heat transfer due to injection through the rows of holes for both isothermal and constant heat flux surfaces is measured.


Author(s):  
M. Ghorab ◽  
S. I. Kim ◽  
I. Hassan

Cooling techniques play a key role in improving efficiency and power output of modern gas turbines. The conjugate technique of film and impingement cooling schemes is considered in this study. The Multi-Stage Cooling Scheme (MSCS) involves coolant passing from inside to outside turbine blade through two stages. The first stage; the coolant passes through first hole to internal gap where the impinging jet cools the external layer of the blade. Finally, the coolant passes through the internal gap to the second hole which has specific designed geometry for external film cooling. The effect of design parameters, such as, offset distance between two-stage holes, gap height, and inclination angle of the first hole, on upstream conjugate heat transfer rate and downstream film cooling effectiveness performance are investigated computationally. An Inconel 617 alloy with variable properties is selected for the solid material. The conjugate heat transfer and film cooling characteristics of MSCS are analyzed across blowing ratios of Br = 1 and 2 for density ratio, 2. This study presents upstream wall temperature distributions due to conjugate heat transfer for different gap design parameters. The maximum film cooling effectiveness with upstream conjugate heat transfer is less than adiabatic film cooling effectiveness by 24–34%. However, the full coverage of cooling effectiveness in spanwise direction can be obtained using internal cooling with conjugate heat transfer, whereas adiabatic film cooling effectiveness has narrow distribution.


1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 1006-1012 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Crawford ◽  
W. M. Kays ◽  
R. J. Moffat

Experimental research into heat transfer from full-coverage film-cooled surfaces with three injection geometries was described in Part I. This part has two objectives. The first is to present a simple numerical procedure for simulation of heat transfer with full-coverage film cooling. The second objective is to present some of the Stanton number data that was used in Part I of the paper. The data chosen for presentation are the low-Reynolds number, heated-starting-length data for the three injection geometries with five-diameter hole spacing. Sample data sets with high blowing ratio and with ten-diameter hole spacing are also presented. The numerical procedure has been successfully applied to the Stanton number data sets.


Energy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 331-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Su Park ◽  
Dong Hyun Lee ◽  
Dong-Ho Rhee ◽  
Shin Hyung Kang ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Ligrani ◽  
A. Ortiz ◽  
S. L. Joseph ◽  
D. L. Evans

Heat transfer effects of longitudinal vortices embedded within film-cooled turbulent boundary layers on a flat plate were examined for free-stream velocities of 10 m/s and 15 m/s. A single row of film-cooling holes was employed with blowing ratios ranging from 0.47 to 0.98. Moderate-strength vortices were used with circulating-to-free stream velocity ratios of −0.95 to −1.10 cm. Spatially resolved heat transfer measurements from a constant heat flux surface show that film coolant is greatly disturbed and that local Stanton numbers are altered significantly by embedded longitudinal vortices. Near the downwash side of the vortex, heat transfer is augmented, vortex effects dominate flow behavior, and the protection from film cooling is minimized. Near the upwash side of the vortex, coolant is pushed to the side of the vortex, locally increasing the protection provided by film cooling. In addition, local heat transfer distributions change significantly as the spanwise location of the vortex is changed relative to film-cooling hole locations.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Su Kwak ◽  
Je-Chin Han

Experimental investigations were performed to measure the detailed heat transfer coefficients and film cooling effectiveness on the squealer tip of a gas turbine blade in a five-bladed linear cascade. The blade was a two-dimensional model of a first stage gas turbine rotor blade with a profile of the GE-E3 aircraft gas turbine engine rotor blade. The test blade had a squealer (recessed) tip with a 4.22% recess. The blade model was equipped with a single row of film cooling holes on the pressure side near the tip region and the tip surface along the camber line. Hue detection based transient liquid crystals technique was used to measure heat transfer coefficients and film cooling effectiveness. All measurements were done for the three tip gap clearances of 1.0%, 1.5%, and 2.5% of blade span at the two blowing ratios of 1.0 and 2.0. The Reynolds number based on cascade exit velocity and axial chord length was 1.1×106 and the total turning angle of the blade was 97.9 deg. The overall pressure ratio was 1.2 and the inlet and exit Mach numbers were 0.25 and 0.59, respectively. The turbulence intensity level at the cascade inlet was 9.7%. Results showed that the overall heat transfer coefficients increased with increasing tip gap clearance, but decreased with increasing blowing ratio. However, the overall film cooling effectiveness increased with increasing blowing ratio. Results also showed that the overall film cooling effectiveness increased but heat transfer coefficients decreased for the squealer tip when compared to the plane tip at the same tip gap clearance and blowing ratio conditions.


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