Enhanced Cooling Effectiveness in Full-Coverage Film Cooling System With Impingement Jets

Author(s):  
Sang Hyun Oh ◽  
Dong Hyun Lee ◽  
Kyung Min Kim ◽  
Moon Young Kim ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

An experimental investigation is conducted on the cooling effectiveness of full-coverage film cooled wall with impingement jets. Film cooling plate is made of stainless steel, thus the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness and the cooling effect of impingement jet underneath the film cooling plate are comprised in the cooling effectiveness. Infra-red camera is used to measure the temperature of film cooled surfaces. Experiments are conducted with different film cooling hole angles, such as 35° and 90°. Diameters of both film cooling holes and impinging jet holes are 5 mm. The jet Reynolds number base on the hole diameter (Red) ranges from 3,000 to 5,000 and equivalent blowing ratios (M) varies from 0.3 to 0.5, respectively. The distance between the injection plate and the film cooling plate is 1, 3 and 5 times of the hole diameter. The streamwise and spanwise hole spacing to the hole diameter ratio (p/d) are 3 for both the film cooling hole plate and the impingement jet hole plate. The 35° angled film cooling hole arrangement shows higher film cooling effectiveness than the 90° film cooling hole arrangement. As the blowing ratio increases, the cooling effectiveness is enhanced for both the 35° almost constant regardless of H/d, while H/d = 1 shows a minimum value for the angled film cooling hole.

Author(s):  
Eui Yeop Jung ◽  
Dong Hyun Lee ◽  
Sang Hyun Oh ◽  
Kyung Min Kim ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

In the present study, total cooling performance was experimentally investigated on a full-coverage film cooling plate with an impingement jet cooling array. The detailed temperature distributions on the film cooled surface were measured using an infra-red thermographic technique. The test plate was made of polycarbonate (k = 0.2 W/m·K) and an array jet impinged underneath the test plates. The measured cooling effectiveness is a combined result of film cooling on the surface and convective heat transfer by a jet impingement array underneath the test plate. The diameter (d) of both film cooling and impingement jet cooling holes was 5 mm. Both the streamwise and spanwise hole spacing-to-hole diameter ratios (p/d) were 3 on the film cooled plate and impingement nozzle plate. The inclination angles of the film cooling holes and impingement jet holes were 35° and 90°, respectively. The holes on each plate were arranged in a staggered pattern. The jet Reynolds number based on the hole diameter varied from 3,000 to 7,000 and the equivalent blowing rate (M) changed from 0.3 to 0.7. The combined cooling effectiveness was measured by changing the gap distance between the jet plate and the film cooling plate from 1 to 5 times the hole diameter. The staggered film cooling hole arrangement showed a higher film cooling effectiveness than the inline film cooling hole arrangement. As the blowing rate increased, the cooling effectiveness decreased on the front part of film cooling plate for a fixed height to diameter ratio (H/d). The effect of H/d on the total cooling effectiveness was not significant for the fixed blowing rate (M) in the tested range.


Author(s):  
Dong Hyun Lee ◽  
Sang Hyun Oh ◽  
Eui Yeop Jung ◽  
Kyung Min Kim ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

In this study, the cooling effectiveness (Φ) was measured on full-coverage film cooled surface with and without array jet impingement cooing using an infra-red thermographic technique. Measurements were conducted with two test plates of different thermal conductivities. One was made of stainless steel (k = 16.3 W/m·K) and the other was made of polycarbonate (k = 0.2 W/m · K). The measured cooling effectiveness comprises the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness on the film cooled surfaces, the heat conduction through the test plates and convective heat transfer of array jet impingement underneath the test plates. The inclination angles of film cooling holes and impingement jet holes were 35° and 90°, respectively. The diameters of both film cooling and impingement jet cooling holes were 5 mm. The streamwise and spanwise hole spacing-to-hole diameter ratios (p/d) are 3 for both the effusion plate (film cooled plate) and the injection plate (impingement nozzle plate. The holes on each plate were arranged in an inline pattern, while the film cooling holes and jet holes were positioned in a staggered manner. The jet Reynolds number based on the hole diameter was 3,000 and the equivalent blowing ratio (M) was 0.3. The gap distance between the jet plate and the film cooling plate was varied from 1 to 5 times of the hole diameter. In addition, the cooling effectiveness without impingement was tested, too. The stainless steel plate shows relatively higher and uniform cooling effectiveness than the polycarbonate plate. The effect of H/d was not significant for both test plates. However, the cooling effectiveness without the impingement jets decreases significantly for the stainless steel plate, while it changed a little for the cooling effectiveness of the polycarbonate plate.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3 Part B) ◽  
pp. 2013-2023
Author(s):  
Duraisamy Ravi ◽  
Kanjikovil Parammasivam

Computational studies were carried out in the end-wall of a linear cascade, of chosen blade profile, which is provided with one row of cylindrical film cooling holes inclined at 30o to the end wall. The CO gas was used as the coolant supplied through the film holes, 2 maintaining a blowing ratio of 0.6. The film cooling hole row was positioned at the leading edge of the cascade. The mainstream fluid was air and based on its properties at the cascade inlet, the flow was found turbulent. A semi cylindrical trench was placed at two positions upstream of the cascade leading edge and three positions downstream of it. ANSYS FLUENT 15.0 was used to compute the film cooling effectiveness of the cascade endwall. Trench positioned at a distance of twice that of film hole diameter, was found to show a highest increase of area averaged effectiveness value by 30.4% over the baseline. Further to this, the influence of the trench diameter was carried out where the trench with diameter twice that of film hole diameter was found to show a 31.3% increase of cooling effectiveness over the baseline. Studies on the influence of blowing ratio showed a highest increment of cooling effectiveness value by 43.5% over the baseline a blowing ratio of 1.2.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale W. Fox ◽  
Fraser B. Jones ◽  
John W. McClintic ◽  
David G. Bogard ◽  
Thomas E. Dyson ◽  
...  

Most studies of turbine airfoil film cooling in laboratory test facilities have used relatively large plenums to feed flow into the coolant holes. However, a more realistic inlet condition for the film cooling holes is a relatively small channel. Previous studies have shown that the film cooling performance is significantly degraded when fed by perpendicular internal crossflow in a smooth channel. In this study, angled rib turbulators were installed in two geometric configurations inside the internal crossflow channel, at 45 deg and 135 deg, to assess the impact on film cooling effectiveness. Film cooling hole inlets were positioned in both prerib and postrib locations to test the effect of hole inlet position on film cooling performance. A test was performed independently varying channel velocity ratio and jet to mainstream velocity ratio. These results were compared to the film cooling performance of previously measured shaped holes fed by a smooth internal channel. The film cooling hole discharge coefficients and channel friction factors were also measured for both rib configurations with varying channel and inlet velocity ratios. Spatially averaged film cooling effectiveness is largely similar to the holes fed by the smooth internal crossflow channel, but hole-to-hole variation due to inlet position was observed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Rogers ◽  
Zhong Ren ◽  
Warren Buzzard ◽  
Brian Sweeney ◽  
Nathan Tinker ◽  
...  

Experimental results are presented for a double wall cooling arrangement which simulates a portion of a combustor liner of a gas turbine engine. The results are collected using a new experimental facility designed to test full-coverage film cooling and impingement cooling effectiveness using either cross flow, impingement, or a combination of both to supply the film cooling flow. The present experiment primarily deals with cross flow supplied full-coverage film cooling for a sparse film cooling hole array that has not been previously tested. Data are provided for turbulent film cooling, contraction ratio of 1, blowing ratios ranging from 2.7 to 7.5, coolant Reynolds numbers based on film cooling hole diameter of about 5000–20,000, and mainstream temperature step during transient tests of 14 °C. The film cooling hole array consists of a film cooling hole diameter of 6.4 mm with nondimensional streamwise (X/de) and spanwise (Y/de) film cooling hole spacing of 15 and 4, respectively. The film cooling holes are streamwise inclined at an angle of 25 deg with respect to the test plate surface and have adjacent streamwise rows staggered with respect to each other. Data illustrating the effects of blowing ratio on adiabatic film cooling effectiveness and heat transfer coefficient are presented. For the arrangement and conditions considered, heat transfer coefficients generally increase with streamwise development and increase with increasing blowing ratio. The adiabatic film cooling effectiveness is determined from measurements of adiabatic wall temperature, coolant stagnation temperature, and mainstream recovery temperature. The adiabatic wall temperature and the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness generally decrease and increase, respectively, with streamwise position, and generally decrease and increase, respectively, as blowing ratio becomes larger.


Author(s):  
Eui Yeop Jung ◽  
Heeyoon Chung ◽  
Seok Min Choi ◽  
Ta-kwan Woo ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

We report an investigation of the total cooling effectiveness of a film cooled surface with staggered array impingement jet cooling using infra-red thermography. Heat transfer experiments were carried out using three film cooled test plates of different thermal conductivities: stainless steel (with a thermal conductivity, k = 13.4 W/mK), Corian® (k = 1 W/mK), and polycarbonate (k = 0.2 W/mK). The effects of conduction through the test plates and convective heat transfer due to the arrayed impingement jets were analyzed. The inclination angle of the film cooling holes was 35° and that of the impingement jet holes was 90°. The film and impingement jet holes on each plate were arranged in a staggered pattern, and the film cooling holes and impingement jet holes were also positioned in a staggered pattern. The jet Reynolds number based on the hole diameter was Rejet = 3,000 and the equivalent blowing rate was M = 0.3. The ratio of the target surface height to the hole diameter was varied in the range 1 < H/d < 5. The diameter of both the film cooling holes and impingement jet holes was 5 mm. The total cooling effectiveness was investigated with and without the impingement jets. When the impingement jets were added to the internal cooling, the averaged total cooling effectiveness was enhanced about 8.4%. The stainless steel plate was found to exhibit better cooling performance with more uniform temperature distribution. The total cooling effectiveness was increased up to 0.87 in the stainless steel plate, and the maximum deviation of total cooling effectiveness in the stainless steel was reduced to 85% from that in polycarbonate plate along the lateral direction. The total cooling effectiveness was related to the Biot number of the film cooled plate, however, the effect of the H/d ratio was not significant.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Fraas ◽  
Tobias Glasenapp ◽  
Achmed Schulz ◽  
Hans-Jörg Bauer

Internal coolant passages of gas turbine vanes and blades have various orientations relative to the external hot gas flow. As a consequence, the inflow of film cooling holes varies as well. To further identify the influencing parameters of film cooling under varying inflow conditions, the present paper provides detailed experimental data. The generic study is performed in a novel test rig, which enables compliance with all relevant similarity parameters including density ratio. Film cooling effectiveness as well as heat transfer of a 10–10–10 deg laidback fan-shaped cooling hole is discussed. Data are processed and presented over 50 hole diameters downstream of the cooling hole exit. First, the parallel coolant flow setup is discussed. Subsequently, it is compared to a perpendicular coolant flow setup at a moderate coolant channel Reynolds number. For the perpendicular coolant flow, asymmetric flow separation in the diffuser occurs and leads to a reduction of film cooling effectiveness. For a higher coolant channel Reynolds number and perpendicular coolant flow, asymmetry increases and cooling effectiveness is further decreased. An increase in blowing ratio does not lead to a significant increase in cooling effectiveness. For all cases investigated, heat transfer augmentation due to film cooling is observed. Heat transfer is highest in the near-hole region and decreases further downstream. Results prove that coolant flow orientation has a severe impact on both parameters.


Author(s):  
K. Vighneswara Rao ◽  
Jong S. Liu ◽  
Daniel C. Crites ◽  
Luis A. Tapia ◽  
Malak F. Malak ◽  
...  

In this study, cylindrical and fan shaped film cooling holes are evaluated on the blade surface numerically, using the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tool ANSYS-CFX, with the objective of improving cooling effectiveness by understanding the flow pattern at the cooling hole exit. The coolant flow rates are adjusted for blowing ratios of 0.5, 1.0 & 1.5 (momentum flux ratios of 0.125, 0.5 & 1.125 respectively). The density ratio is maintained at 2.0. New shaped holes viz. straight, concave and convex trench holes are introduced and are evaluated under similar operating conditions. Results are presented in terms of surface temperatures and adiabatic effectiveness at three different blowing ratios for the different film cooling hole shapes analyzed. Comparison is made with reference to the fan shaped film cooling hole to bring out relative merits of different shapes. The new trench holes improved the film cooling effectiveness by allowing more residence time for coolant to spread laterally while directing smoothly onto the airfoil surface. While convex trench improved the centre-line effectiveness, straight trench improved the laterally-averaged and overall effectiveness at all blowing ratios. Concave trench improved the effectiveness at blowing ratios 0.5 and 1.0.


2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihong Gao ◽  
Diganta Narzary ◽  
Je-Chin Han

This paper is focused on the effect of film-hole configurations on platform film cooling. The platform is cooled by purge flow from a simulated stator-rotor seal combined with discrete-hole film cooling within the blade passage. The cylindrical holes and laidback fan-shaped holes are assessed in terms of film-cooling effectiveness and total pressure loss. Lined up with the freestream streamwise direction, the film holes are arranged on the platform with two different layouts. In one layout, the film-cooling holes are divided into two rows and more concentrated on the pressure side of the passage. In the other layout, the film-cooling holes are divided into four rows and loosely distributed on the platform. Four film-cooling hole configurations are investigated totally. Testing was done in a five-blade cascade with medium high Mach number condition (0.27 and 0.44 at the inlet and the exit, respectively). The detailed film-cooling effectiveness distributions on the platform were obtained using pressure sensitive paint technique. Results show that the combined cooling scheme (slot purge flow cooling combined with discrete-hole film cooling) is able to provide full film coverage on the platform. The shaped holes present higher film-cooling effectiveness and wider film coverage than the cylindrical holes, particularly at higher blowing ratios. The hole layout affects the local film-cooling effectiveness. The shaped holes also show the advantage over the cylindrical holes with lower total pressure loss.


Author(s):  
Zhihong Gao ◽  
Diganta Narzary ◽  
Je-Chin Han

This paper is focused on the effect of film hole configurations on platform film cooling. The platform is cooled by purge flow from a simulated stator-rotor seal combined with discrete-hole film cooling within the blade passage. The cylindrical holes and laidback fan-shaped holes are assessed in terms of film cooling effectiveness and total pressure loss. Lined up with the freestream streamwise direction, the film holes are arranged on the platform with two different layouts. In one layout, the film cooling holes are divided into two rows and more concentrated on the pressure side of the passage. In the other layout, the film cooling holes are divided into four rows and loosely distributed on the platform. Four film cooling hole configurations are investigated totally. Testing was done in a five-blade cascade with medium high Mach number condition (0.27 and 0.44 at the inlet and the exit, respectively). The detailed film cooling effectiveness distributions on the platform was obtained using pressure sensitive paint (PSP) technique. Results show that the combined cooling scheme (slot purge flow cooling combined with discrete hole film cooling) is able to provide full film coverage on the platform. The shaped holes present higher film cooling effectiveness and wider film coverage than the cylindrical holes, particularly at higher blowing ratios. The hole layout affects the local film cooling effectiveness. The shaped holes also show the advantage over the cylindrical holes with lower total pressure loss.


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