scholarly journals High Resolution Measurements of Local Heat Transfer Coefficients by Discrete Hole Film Cooling

Author(s):  
S. Baldauf ◽  
A. Schulz ◽  
S. Wittig

Local heat transfer coefficients on a flat plate surface downstream a row of cylindrical ejection holes were investigated. The parameters blowing angle, hole pitch, blowing rate, and density ratio were varied in a wide range emphasizing on engine relevant conditions. A high resolution IR-thermography technique was used for measuring surface temperature fields. Local heat transfer coefficients were obtained by a Finite Element analysis. IR-determined surface temperatures and backside temperatures of the cooled testplate measured with thermocouples were applied as boundary conditions in a heat flux computation. The superposition approach was employed to obtain the heat transfer coefficient hr referring to adiabatic wall temperatures in the presence of film cooling. Therefore, heat transfer results with different wall temperature conditions and adiabatic film cooling effectiveness results of identical flow situations (constant density ratios) were combined. Characteristic surface patterns of the locally resolved heat transfer coefficients hf depending on the various parameters were recognized and quantified. The detailed results are used to discuss the specific local heat transfer behavior in the presence of film cooling. They also provide a base of surface data essential for the validation of the heat transfer capabilities of CFD-codes in discrete hole film cooling.

1999 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Baldauf ◽  
A. Schulz ◽  
S. Wittig

Local heat transfer coefficients on a flat plate surface downstream a row of cylindrical ejection holes were investigated. The parameters blowing angle, hole pitch, blowing rate, and density ratio were varied over a wide range, emphasizing engine relevant conditions. A high-resolution IR-thermography technique was used for measuring surface temperature fields. Local heat transfer coefficients were obtained from a Finite Element analysis. IR-determined surface temperatures and backside temperatures of the cooled test plate measured with thermocouples were applied as boundary conditions in this heat flux computation. The superposition approach was employed to obtain the heat transfer coefficient hf based on the difference between actual wall temperatures and adiabatic wall temperatures in the presence of film cooling. The hf data are given for an engine relevant density ratio of 1.8. Therefore, heat transfer results with different wall temperature conditions and adiabatic film cooling effectiveness results for identical flow situations (i.e., constant density ratios) were combined. Characteristic surface patterns of the locally resolved heat transfer coefficients hf are recognized and quantified as the different ejection parameters are changed. The detailed results are used to discuss the specific local heat transfer behavior in the presence of film cooling. They also provide a base of surface data essential for the validation of the heat transfer capabilities of CFD codes in discrete hole film cooling.


Author(s):  
Douglas N. Barlow ◽  
Yong W. Kim

An experimental investigation of film cooling on rough surfaces has been accomplished at a Reynolds number and dimensionless boundary layer momentum thickness found in current high performance first stage turbine vanes. A transient experimental method using thermochromic liquid crystals is employed to determine both local heat transfer coefficients and film cooling effectiveness values on planar rough surfaces. Two surface roughness configurations are investigated with a single row of cooling holes spaced three diameters apart and inclined 30° to the mainstream flow. The mainstream turbulence level at the point of film injection is 8.5% and the density ratio considered is approximately 1.0. The influence of roughness on the centerline film cooling effectiveness, laterally averaged film cooling effectiveness, laterally averaged heat transfer coefficients, as well as area averaged values are presented. It is found that the presence of roughness causes a decrease in the film cooling effectiveness over that of the smooth surface for the range of experimental parameters considered in this study. In addition, significant lateral smoothing in film cooling effectiveness distribution is observed for the rougher surfaces. Measured heat transfer coefficients on rough surfaces show a trend of monotonic increase with blowing ratio. However, such increase is not as great as that for the case of smooth surface.


Author(s):  
Yong W. Kim ◽  
Chad Coon ◽  
Hee-Koo Moon

Pressure-side discharge is commonly employed in turbine blades and nozzle guide vanes to keep the trailing edge metal temperatures within an allowable limit while minimizing aerodynamic penalties. Despite its widespread use, film-cooling data of the discharge slot are scarce in open literature. The objectives of the present experimental study were to measure detailed local heat transfer and film-cooling effectiveness from a 10x scale trailing-edge model of an industrial gas turbine airfoil in a low speed wind tunnel. To simulate the mainstream flow acceleration in vane and blade row passages, a linear velocity gradient was imposed using an adjustable top wall. The present work employed the composite slab quasi-steady liquid crystal method that allows measurements of local heat transfer coefficients and film-cooling effectiveness from two related tests. With this technique, the heat transfer measurement can be performed in a cold wind tunnel. The coolant-to-mainstream blowing ratio was varied between 0.25 and 1.0. The slot hydraulic diameter based Reynolds number ranged from 4,760 to 19,550. The coolant-to-mainstream density ratio was fixed at 0.95. Slot discharge coefficients were also measured with mainstream acceleration. Both local heat transfer coefficients and film-cooling effectiveness displayed a strong dependency on blowing ratio and mainstream acceleration. However, the discharge coefficients showed little dependency on the mainstream acceleration.


2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Rabah ◽  
S. Kabelac

Local heat transfer coefficients for flow boiling of pure 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R134a) and binary mixtures of propane (R290) and R134a were measured. The experimental setup employed a vapor heated plain horizontal tube (di=10mm, do=12mm, L=500mm). The measurements covered a wide range of saturation temperatures (233≤Ts≤278K), mass fluxes (100≤ṁ≤300kg∕m2s), qualities (0≤ẋ≤1), and concentrations (0≤z̃≤0.65). In the zeotropic region of R134a/R290 mixtures, the measured local heat transfer coefficient was found to show a maximum decrease by a factor of 2 relative to that for pure R134a. At the azeotropic point (65% R290), it was found to increase by a factor of 1.2. The measured local heat transfer coefficients for both R134a and R134a/R290 were compared with a number of correlations.


2000 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Willenborg ◽  
V. Schramm ◽  
S. Kim ◽  
S. Wittig

The influence of a honeycomb facing on the heat transfer of a stepped labyrinth seal with geometry typical for modern jet engines was investigated. Heat transfer measurements were obtained for both a smooth stator and a stator lined with a honeycomb structure. In addition, an LDV system was used with the scaled up geometry to obtain a high local resolution of the velocity distribution in the seal. The experiments covered a wide range of pressure ratios and gap widths, typical for engine operating conditions. Local heat transfer coefficients were calculated from the measured wall and gas temperatures using a finite element code. By averaging the local values, mean heat transfer coefficients were determined and correlations for the global Nusselt numbers were derived for the stator and the rotor. The LDV results showed strong geometrical effects of the honeycomb structure on the development of the flow fields for the honeycomb seal. The distribution of the local heat transfer coefficients are compatible with the flow features identified by the LDV results and reveal a significantly reduced heat transfer with the honeycomb facing compared to the smooth facing.


Author(s):  
K. Willenborg ◽  
V. Schramm ◽  
S. Kim ◽  
S. Wittig

The influence of a honeycomb facing on the heat transfer of a stepped labyrinth seal with geometry typical for modern jet engines was investigated. Heat transfer measurements were obtained for both a smooth stator and a stator lined with a honeycomb structure. In addition, an LDV system was used with the scaled up geometry to obtain a high local resolution of the velocity distribution in the seal. The experiments covered a wide range of pressure ratios and gap widths, typical for engine operating conditions. Local heat transfer coefficients were calculated from the measured wall and gas temperatures using a finite element code. By averaging the local values, mean heat transfer coefficients were determined and correlations for the global Nusselt numbers were derived for the stator and the rotor. The LDV results showed strong geometrical effects of the honeycomb structure on the development of the flow fields for the honeycomb seal. The distribution of the local heat transfer coefficients are compatible with to the flow features identified by the LDV results and reveal a significantly reduced heat transfer with the honeycomb facing compared to the smooth facing.


Author(s):  
Chao-Cheng Shiau ◽  
Nafiz H. K. Chowdhury ◽  
Shang-Feng Yang ◽  
Je-Chin Han ◽  
Alexander MirzaMoghadam ◽  
...  

This paper experimentally studies the effect of transonic flow on local heat transfer coefficients and film cooling effectiveness distributions of a turbine vane’s suction surface with compound-angle shaped-hole configuration. A Temperature Sensitive Paint (TSP) method is used to determine the local heat transfer coefficients and film cooling effectiveness simultaneously. Tests were performed in a five-vane annular-sector cascade blow-down facility. The exit Mach numbers are controlled to be 0.7 and 0.9, from subsonic to transonic conditions. Compressed air is used as coolant with a coolant-to-mainstream density ratio 0.91 on film cooling and heat transfer study. Three averaged coolant-to-mainstream blowing ratios in the range, 0.7, 1.0, and 1.6 are investigated. The test vane features three rows of radial-angle cylindrical holes around the leading edge, and two rows of compound-angle shaped holes on the suction side. Effects of blowing ratio and exit Mach number on the vane suction surface heat transfer and film cooling effectiveness distributions are obtained, and the results are presented and explained in this investigation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Srinivas Garimella ◽  
Ulf C. Andresen ◽  
Biswajit Mitra ◽  
Yirong Jiang ◽  
Brian M. Fronk

Heat transfer during condensation of refrigerant blends R404A and R410A flowing through horizontal tubes with 0.76 ≤ D ≤ 9.4 mm at nominal Pr = 0.8–0.9 was investigated. Local heat transfer coefficients were measured for the mass flux range 200 < G < 800 kg m−2 s−1 in small quality increments over the entire vapor–liquid region. Heat transfer coefficients increased with quality and mass flux, while the effect of reduced pressure was not very significant within this range of pressures. The heat transfer coefficients increased with a decrease in diameter. Correlations from the literature were not able to predict the condensation heat transfer coefficient for these fluids at these near-critical pressures over the wide range of tube diameters under consideration. A new flow-regime based model for heat transfer in the wavy, annular, and annular/wavy transition regimes, which predicts 91% of the data within ±25%, is proposed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Cernecky ◽  
Jan Koniar ◽  
Zuzana Brodnianska

Abstract The paper deals with a study of the effect of regulating elements on local values of heat transfer coefficients along shaped heat exchange surfaces with forced air convection. The use of combined methods of heat transfer intensification, i.e. a combination of regulating elements with appropriately shaped heat exchange areas seems to be highly effective. The study focused on the analysis of local values of heat transfer coefficients in indicated cuts, in distances expressed as a ratio x/s for 0; 0.33; 0.66 and 1. As can be seen from our findings, in given conditions the regulating elements can increase the values of local heat transfer coefficients along shaped heat exchange surfaces. An optical method of holographic interferometry was used for the experimental research into temperature fields in the vicinity of heat exchange surfaces. The obtained values correspond very well with those of local heat transfer coefficients αx, recorded in a CFD simulation.


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