Numerical Study of the Effect of Blowing Angle on Cooling Effectiveness of an Effusion Cooling

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaping Hu ◽  
Honghu Ji
Keyword(s):  
Film Cooling ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Coolant Flow ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Absolute Value ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Conventional Film

The paper numerically investigates the influences of the blowing angle α of coolant flow on the cooling effectiveness of effusion cooling of a plate. Nine cases were studied which cover three blowing angles of α = 30°, 60°, 90° and for each angle three blowing ratios of M = 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 are calculated, respectively. The results show that with the increase of α the cooling effectiveness reduces for all the calculated cases. For the cases of α = 30° and 60° the distribution of cooling effectiveness η along the whole plate are very similar for any given blowing ratio, especially when M = 1.0 and 2.0. Whereas for the cases of α = 90°, the distributions of cooling effectiveness are quite different from other two blowing angles for a given blowing ratio, especially for M = 1.0 and in the trailing region of the plate. Although the cooling effectiveness of the cases with α = 90° for any given blowing ratio is the worst one among the three angles (α = 30°, 60°, and 90°) stated, its absolute value is still quite high comparing to the conventional film cooling.

A Parametric Numerical Study of the Effects of Freestream Turbulence Intensity and Length Scale on Anti-Vortex Film Cooling Design at High Blowing Ratio

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy W. Repko ◽  
Andrew C. Nix ◽  
James D. Heidmann
Keyword(s):  
Turbulence Intensity ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Length Scale ◽  
Freestream Turbulence ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Length Scales ◽  
Film Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Cooling Design

An advanced, high-effectiveness film-cooling design, the anti-vortex hole (AVH) has been investigated by several research groups and shown to mitigate or counter the vorticity generated by conventional holes and increase film effectiveness at high blowing ratios and low freestream turbulence levels. [1, 2] The effects of increased turbulence on the AVH geometry were previously investigated and presented by researchers at West Virginia University (WVU), in collaboration with NASA, in a preliminary CFD study [3] on the film effectiveness and net heat flux reduction (NHFR) at high blowing ratio and elevated freestream turbulence levels for the adjacent AVH. The current paper presents the results of an extended numerical parametric study, which attempts to separate the effects of turbulence intensity and length-scale on film cooling effectiveness of the AVH. In the extended study, higher freestream turbulence intensity and larger scale cases were investigated with turbulence intensities of 5, 10 and 20% and length scales based on cooling hole diameter of Λx/dm = 1, 3 and 6. Increasing turbulence intensity was shown to increase the centerline, span-averaged and area-averaged adiabatic film cooling effectiveness. Larger turbulent length scales were shown to have little to no effect on the centerline, span-averaged and area-averaged adiabatic film-cooling effectiveness at lower turbulence levels, but slightly increased effect at the highest turbulence levels investigated.

Numerical Study on the Influence of Trench Width on Film Cooling Characteristics of Double-Wave Trench

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo-lun Zhang ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Hui-ren Zhu ◽  
Jian-sheng Wei ◽  
Zhong-yi Fu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Transfer Coefficient ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Film Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Trench Width

Film cooling performance of the double-wave trench was numerically studied to improve the film cooling characteristics. Double-wave trench was formed by changing the leading edge and trailing edge of transverse trench into cosine wave. The film cooling characteristics of transverse trench and double-wave trench were numerically studied using Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) simulations with realizable k-ε turbulence model and enhanced wall treatment. The film cooling effectiveness and heat transfer coefficient of double-wave trench at different trench width (W = 0.8D, 1.4D, 2.1D) conditions are investigated, and the distribution of temperature field and flow field were analyzed. The results show that double-wave trench effectively improves the film cooling effectiveness and the uniformity of jet at the downstream wall of the trench. The span-wise averaged film cooling effectiveness of the double-wave trench model increases 20–63% comparing with that of the transverse trench at high blowing ratio. The anti-counter-rotating vortices which can press the film on near-wall are formed at the downstream wall of the double-wave trench. With the double-wave trench width decreasing, the film cooling effectiveness gradually reduces at the hole center-line region of the downstream trench. With the increase of the blowing ratio, the span-wise averaged heat transfer coefficient increases. The span-wise averaged heat transfer coefficient of the double-wave trench with 0.8D and 2.1D trench width is higher than that of the double-wave trench with 1.4D trench width at the high blowing ratio conditions.

Numerical Study of Heat Transfer and Cooling Effectiveness on a Flat-Tip Turbine Blade

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qihe Huang ◽  
Jiao Wang ◽  
Lei He ◽  
Qiang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Turbine Blade ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Leakage Flow ◽  
Tip Leakage Flow ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Blade Tip

A numerical study is performed to simulate the tip leakage flow and heat transfer on the first stage rotor blade tip of GE-E3 turbine, which represents a modern gas turbine blade geometry. Calculations consist of the flat blade tip without and with film cooling. For the flat tip without film cooling case, in order to investigate the effect of tip gap clearance on the leakage flow and heat transfer on the blade tip, three different tip gap clearances of 1.0%, 1.5% and 2.5% of the blade span are considered. And to assess the performance of the turbulence models in correctly predicting the blade tip heat transfer, the simulations have been performed by using four different models (the standard k-ε, the RNG k-ε, the standard k-ω and the SST models), and the comparison shows that the standard k-ω model provides the best results. All the calculations of the flat tip without film cooling have been compared and validated with the experimental data of Azad[1] and the predictions of Yang[2]. For the flat tip with film cooling case, three different blowing ratio (M = 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5) have been studied to the influence on the leakage flow in tip gap and the cooling effectiveness on the blade tip. Tip film cooling can largely reduce the overall heat transfer on the tip. And the blowing ratio M = 1.0, the cooling effect for the blade tip is the best.

Research on Film Cooling Mechanism of Vortex Reconstruction Induced by Swirling Coolant Flow

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoqiang Yue ◽  
Ping Dong ◽  
Yuting Jiang ◽  
Jie Gao ◽  
Qun Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Film Cooling ◽  
Swirling Flow ◽  
Coolant Flow ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Film Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Cooling Mechanism ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Momentum Region

In this paper, a new-type coolant chamber with higher film cooling effectiveness is proposed based on the vortex reconstruction. Three different kinds of coolant chamber configuration based on the cylindrical hole are selected to develop the swirling flow structure of coolant, and the comparative investigations have been carried out to study the effect of different coolant chambers at blowing ratios ranging from 0.5 to 2.0. The results show that the coolant jet momentum is small at low blowing ratio, and the difference of the film cooling effectiveness for three kinds of coolant chamber configuration is little, but the advantage of swirling inflow coolant film cooling becomes obviously with the increase of blowing ratio. When the blowing ratio is 2.0, the jet momentum with original coolant chamber configuration is large and uniform, which leads to the lowest cooling effectiveness due to the formation of a strong kidney vortex. The first coolant chamber configuration has a low jet momentum region at upstream of the film hole, the coolant in this region interacts with high temperature mainstream and bypasses the large jet momentum coolant to attach cooling surface at downstream, the cooling effect is obvious at downstream. The second coolant chamber configuration is sprayed with the structure of unidirectional vortex, which forms a vortex pressing on other vortex, making the coolant in pressed vortex attach surface better. The coolant laterally velocity is large, producing the best coverage and the higher film cooling effectiveness. The average film cooling effectiveness of the first and second coolant chamber configuration are larger than original by about 10% and 25%, respectively (M = 1.0), or 50% and 550% (M = 1.5). From the distribution of average film cooling effectiveness of different blowing ratios, it can be concluded that the optimal blowing ratio of swirling coolant flow film cooling is in the range of 1.8 to 2.1.

Numerical Study on the Influence of Hole Shape on Film Cooling Effectiveness

2013 ◽  
Vol 716 ◽  
pp. 699-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Dai ◽  
Nai Yun Yu
Keyword(s):  
Film Cooling ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Film Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Cylindrical Holes ◽  
Shaped Hole ◽  
Volume Method ◽  
Lateral Area

Effects of hole shapes on film cooling effectiveness downstream of one row of film holes at the blade were investigated using a three-dimensional finite volume method and multi-block technique. The present study also received velocity vectors about different hole shapes. The hole geometries studied include standard cylindrical hole and forward diffused shaped hole and converging slot-hole. It was found that the film cooling effectiveness of cylindrical holes obviously declined along with increasing the blowing ratio. Results of the shaped holes configuration present a marked improvement, with a high effectiveness at the lateral area between adjacent holes and effectiveness of the converging slot-hole was superior to other holes in various blowing ratios. The film cooling effectiveness realized by the slot-holes compared to the cylindrical and forward diffused shaped holes was more excelled at downstream of the intersection of the two slot-holes. The converging slot-hole and forward diffused shaped hole can reduce the vortex intensity, and then enhance the film cooling effectiveness.

Numerical Study on Film Cooling Effectiveness from Converging Slot-Hole

2013 ◽  
Vol 740 ◽  
pp. 836-841
Author(s):  
Ping Dai ◽  
Nai Yun Yu
Keyword(s):  
Film Cooling ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Lateral Spreading ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Film Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Vortex Pairs ◽  
Hole Geometry ◽  
Volume Method

Film cooling effectiveness downstream and spanwise distribution of one row of converging slot-holes at the blade were investigated using a three-dimensional finite volume method and multi-block technique at the blowing ratio ranging from 0.5 to 2.0. Previous successful application of a two-layer turbulence model to cylindrical is extended to predict film cooling for the converging slot-hole geometry. Also, the influence of jet angle on film cooling effectiveness from converging slot-holes at the blade was studied. The results showed that the centerline effectiveness of converging slot-hole was going to be increased along with blowing ratio increasing. It was also shown that the uniform lateral spreading of the effectiveness with an enhancement of the intersection of the two slot-holes. It was found that cooling effectiveness for 25° was superior to other jet angle for any blowing ratios. Furthermore, the improvement realized by the small jet angle compared to the other jet angle holes was more important at the higher blowing ratio than it was at the lower one. Cooling effectiveness of 45° and 60° holes was declining along downstream of the holes, but it was improving over again at somewhere from downstream and then it was continuing decline. Cooling effectiveness of 60° holes presented a marked improvement compared to 45° holes at beyond downstream of the holes. Counter rotating vortex pairs at the exit of big jet angle holes were obvious and strong, but these vortexes have been weakened at the exit of small jet angle holes and results in a better coolant protection than that of the big jet angle holes.

Numerical Study on the Effects of Freestream Turbulence on Antivortex Film Cooling Design at High Blowing Ratio

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy W. Repko ◽  
Andrew C. Nix ◽  
Can Uysal ◽  
James D. Heidmann
Keyword(s):  
Turbulence Intensity ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Freestream Turbulence ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Length Scales ◽  
Film Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Cooling Design ◽  
Rans Analysis

An advanced, high-effectiveness film cooling design, the antivortex hole (AVH) has been investigated by several research groups and shown to mitigate or counter the vorticity generated by conventional holes and increase film effectiveness at high blowing ratios and low freestream turbulence levels. The effects of increased turbulence on an AVH geometry were previously investigated in a preliminary steady computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study by Hunley et al. on the film effectiveness and net heat flux reduction (NHFR) at high blowing ratio. The current paper presents the results of an extended numerical parametric study, which attempts to separate the effects of turbulence intensity and length scale on film cooling performance of the AVH concept at high blowing ratio (2.0) and density ratio (2.0). In this extended study, steady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) analysis was performed with turbulence intensities of 5, 10, and 20% and length scales based on cooling hole diameter of Λx/dm = 1, 3, and 6. Increasing turbulence intensity was shown to increase the centerline, span-averaged, and area-averaged adiabatic film cooling effectiveness and NHFR. Larger turbulent length scales in the steady RANS analysis were shown to have little to no effect on the centerline, span-averaged, and area-averaged adiabatic film cooling effectiveness and NHFR at lower turbulence levels, but moderate effect at the highest turbulence levels investigated. Heat transfer results were in good agreement with the findings from adiabatic cases from previous work. Unsteady RANS results also provided supplementary flow visualization for the AVH film cooling flow under varying turbulence levels.

Numerical Simulation on the Effect of Cooling Hole Configuration on the Film Cooling Effectiveness in TBC Coated Turbine Vanes

2018 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Parthiban ◽  
Muthukannan Duraiselvam ◽  
Shashank Kumar Jain ◽  
Saad Riaz ◽  
S. V. Aditya
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Coolant Flow ◽  
Test Surface ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Film Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Hole Configuration ◽  
Curved Hole ◽  
Lift Off

AbstractNumerical simulation was performed to investigate adiabatic film cooling effectiveness of cooling holes over thermal barrier coated superalloy substrate. Divergent, convergent-divergent and curved configuration of cooling holes were compared with the inclined cylindrical hole configuration. The coolant flow was strongly attached with the surface for 35º inclination. The film cooling effectiveness at different blowing ratios of 0.4, 0.8 and 1.2 was analysed. The study was carried out using realizable k-ϵ (RKE) model. The curved hole configuration provided enhanced cooling effectiveness even at 0.8 blowing ratio in comparison with other cases. The presence of curvature reduced the coolant velocity thereby preventing the detachment of jet from the surface and forming a very strong longitudinal film. The coolant jet starts detaching from the surface for blowing ratio higher than 1.2; the high momentum of the film cooling jet causes a lift off the surface. At 1.2 blowing ratio, a greater spread of coolant flow along the test surface was observed. Better film cooling effectiveness was evident at 0.8 and 1.2 blowing ratios. At 0.8, the enhancement in the overall film cooling effectiveness of divergent, convergent-divergent and curved hole configuration was about 14 %, 50 % and 59 %, respectively.

The Effect of Using Ramps with Trench Cylindrical Holes on Film Cooling Effectiveness

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Ahmed A. Imram ◽  
Humam K. Jalghef ◽  
Falah F. Hatem
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Air Injection ◽  
Baseline Model ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Film Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Hot Air ◽  
Test Study ◽  
Cylindrical Holes

     The effect of introducing ramp with a cylindrical slot hole on the film cooling effectiveness has been investigated experimentally and numerically. The film cooling effectiveness measurements are obtained experimentally. A test study was performed at a single mainstream with Reynolds number 76600 at three different coolant to mainstream blowing ratios 1.5, 2, and 3. Numerical simulation is introduced to primarily estimate the best ramp configurations and to predict the behavior of the transport phenomena in the region linked closely to the interaction between the coolant air injection and the hot air mainstram flow. The results showed that using ramps with trench cylindrical holes would enhanced the overall film cooling effectiveness by 83.33% compared with baseline model at blowing ratio of 1.5, also  the best overall flim cooling effectevness was obtained at blowing ratio of 2 while it is reduced at blowing ratio of 3.

Influence of Coolant Density on Turbine Platform Film-Cooling With Stator–Rotor Purge Flow and Compound-Angle Holes

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Liu ◽  
Shang-Feng Yang ◽  
Je-Chin Han
Keyword(s):  
Film Cooling ◽  
Density Ratio ◽  
Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Film Cooling Effectiveness ◽  
Fundamental Parameters ◽  
Blowing Ratio ◽  
Purge Flow ◽  
Cylindrical Holes ◽  
Exit Mach Number ◽  
Compound Angle

A detailed parametric study of film-cooling effectiveness was carried out on a turbine blade platform. The platform was cooled by purge flow from a simulated stator–rotor seal combined with discrete hole film-cooling. The cylindrical holes and laidback fan-shaped holes were accessed in terms of film-cooling effectiveness. This paper focuses on the effect of coolant-to-mainstream density ratio on platform film-cooling (DR = 1 to 2). Other fundamental parameters were also examined in this study—a fixed purge flow of 0.5%, three discrete-hole film-cooling blowing ratios between 1.0 and 2.0, and two freestream turbulence intensities of 4.2% and 10.5%. Experiments were done in a five-blade linear cascade with inlet and exit Mach number of 0.27 and 0.44, respectively. Reynolds number of the mainstream flow was 750,000 and was based on the exit velocity and chord length of the blade. The measurement technique adopted was the conduction-free pressure sensitive paint (PSP) technique. Results indicated that with the same density ratio, shaped holes present higher film-cooling effectiveness and wider film coverage than the cylindrical holes, particularly at higher blowing ratios. The optimum blowing ratio of 1.5 exists for the cylindrical holes, whereas the effectiveness for the shaped holes increases with an increase of blowing ratio. Results also indicate that the platform film-cooling effectiveness increases with density ratio but decreases with turbulence intensity.

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