scholarly journals A Combined Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Flow and Heat Transfer Inside a Turbine Vane Cooled by Jet Impingement

Author(s):  
Emmanuel Laroche ◽  
Matthieu Fenot ◽  
Eva Dorignac ◽  
Jean-Jacques Vuillerme ◽  
Laurent Emmanuel Brizzi ◽  
...  

The present study aims at characterizing the flow field and heat transfer for a schematic but realistic vane cooling scheme. Experimentally, both velocity and heat transfer measurements are conducted to provide a detailed database of the investigated configuration. From a numerical point of view, the configuration is investigated using isotropic as well as anisotropic Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models. An hybrid RANS/LES technique is also considered to evaluate potential unsteady effects. Both experimental and numerical results show a very complex 3D flow. Air is not evenly distributed between the different injections, mainly because of a large recirculation flow. Due to the strong flow deviation at the hole inlet, the velocity distribution and the turbulence characteristics at the hole exit are far from fully developed profiles. The comparison between PIV measurements and numerical results shows a reasonable agreement. However, coming to heat transfer, all RANS models exhibit a major overestimation compared to IR thermography measurements. The Billard-Laurence model does not bring any improvement compared to a classical k-ω SST model. The hybrid RANS/LES simulation provides the best heat transfer estimation, exhibiting potential unsteady effects ignored by RANS models. Those conclusions are different from the ones usually obtained for a single fully developed impinging jet.

2017 ◽  
Vol 140 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Laroche ◽  
Matthieu Fenot ◽  
Eva Dorignac ◽  
Jean-Jacques Vuillerme ◽  
Laurent Emmanuel Brizzi ◽  
...  

The present study aims at characterizing the flow field and heat transfer for a schematic but realistic vane cooling scheme. Experimentally, both velocity and heat transfer measurements are conducted to provide a detailed database of the investigated configuration. From a numerical point of view, the configuration is investigated using isotropic and anisotropic Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) turbulence models. A hybrid RANS/large eddy simulation (LES) technique is also considered to evaluate potential unsteady effects. Both experimental and numerical results show a very complex three-dimensional (3D) flow. Air is not evenly distributed between different injections, mainly because of a large recirculation flow. Due to the strong flow deviation at the hole inlet, the velocity distribution and the turbulence characteristics at the hole exit are far from fully developed profiles. The comparison between particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements and numerical results shows a reasonable agreement. However, coming to heat transfer, all RANS models exhibit a major overestimation compared to IR thermography measurements. The Billard–Laurence model does not bring any improvement compared to a classical k–ω shear stress transport (SST) model. The hybrid RANS/LES simulation provides the best heat transfer estimation, exhibiting potential unsteady effects ignored by RANS models. Those conclusions are different from the ones usually obtained for a single fully developed impinging jet.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketan Atulkumar Ganatra ◽  
Dushyant Singh

The numerical analysis for the round jet impingement over a circular cylinder has been carried out. The v2f turbulence model is used for the numerical analysis and compared with the two equation turbulence models from the fluid flow and the heat transfer point of view. Further, the numerical results for the heat transfer with original and modified v2f turbulence model are compared with the experimental results. The nozzle is placed orthogonally to the target surface (heated cylindrical surface). The flow is assumed as the steady, incompressible, three-dimensional and turbulent. The spacing between the nozzle exit and the target surface ranges from 4 to 15 times the nozzle diameter. The Reynolds number based on the nozzle diameter ranges from 23,000 to 38,800. From the heat transfer results, the modified v2f turbulence model is better as compared to the other turbulence models. The modified v2f turbulence model has the least error for the numerical Nusselt number at the stagnation point and wall jet region.


Author(s):  
Thangam Natarajan ◽  
James Jewkes ◽  
Ramesh Narayanaswamy ◽  
Yongmann M. Chung ◽  
Anthony D. Lucey

The fluid dynamics and heat transfer characteristics of a turbulent round jet are modelled numerically using Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Meshes with varying degrees of coarseness, with both radial and axial refinements are investigated. Discretization is carried out using the finite volume method. The jet configurations are chosen to enable validation against well-established experimental jet-impingement heat-transfer studies, particularly that of Cooper et al. [1]. The Reynolds number studied is 23000. The height of discharge from the impingement wall is fixed at twice the jet diameter. The work critically examines the effect of Reynolds number, standoff distance and helps to ascertain the relative merits of various turbulence models, by comparing turbulent statistics and the Nusselt number distributions. The present work is carried out as a preliminary validation, in a wider study intended to determine the thermofluidic behaviour of jets impinging upon an oscillating surface.


2019 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 01025
Author(s):  
Tomasz Kura ◽  
Elżbieta Fornalik-Wajs ◽  
Jan Wajs ◽  
Sasa Kenjeres

Jet impingement is a method of the heat transfer enhancement applied in the engineering systems. The idea is to generate fast-flow fluid jet which impinge on the heated (or cooled) surface, causing significantly higher heat transfer rate. Although some flat surface jet impingement cases are described in the literature, the validated data is still limited. The reason is coming from the fact, that these flows are hydrodynamically complex. Therefore the numerical analysis is necessary to understand the phenomena, especially in the range of turbulent flow. The well-known and accurate method is Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach. However, depending on the applied turbulence model, various results can be obtained. The reason is that the jet impingement strongly depends on the complex boundary layer effects and their resolving is still challenging for RANS models and until now it is their weakest point. In the paper, the hydrodynamic and thermal, numerical results of jet impingement are presented, depending on selected RANS based models. The aim was to indicate their ability to anticipate the turbulence parameters.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 794-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Luo ◽  
B. Lakshminarayana

The boundary layer development and convective heat transfer on transonic turbine nozzle vanes are investigated using a compressible Navier–Stokes code with three low-Reynolds-number k–ε models. The mean-flow and turbulence transport equations are integrated by a four-stage Runge–Kutta scheme. Numerical predictions are compared with the experimental data acquired at Allison Engine Company. An assessment of the performance of various turbulence models is carried out. The two modes of transition, bypass transition and separation-induced transition, are studied comparatively. Effects of blade surface pressure gradients, free-stream turbulence level, and Reynolds number on the blade boundary layer development, particularly transition onset, are examined. Predictions from a parabolic boundary layer code are included for comparison with those from the elliptic Navier–Stokes code. The present study indicates that the turbine external heat transfer, under real engine conditions, can be predicted well by the Navier–Stokes procedure with the low-Reynolds-number k–ε models employed.


Author(s):  
Naseem Uddin ◽  
S. O. Neumann ◽  
B. Weigand

Turbulent impinging jet is a complex flow phenomenon involving free jet, impingement and subsequent wall jet development zones; this makes it a difficult test case for the evaluation of new turbulence models. The complexity of the jet impingement can be further amplified by the addition of the swirl. In this paper, results of Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of swirling and non-swirling impinging jet are presented. The Reynolds number of the jet based on bulk axial velocity is 23000 and target-to-wall distance (H/D) is two. The Swirl numbers (S) of the jet are 0,0.2, 0.47. In swirling jets, the heat transfer at the geometric stagnation zone deteriorates due to the formation of conical recirculation zone. It is found numerically that the addition of swirl does not give any improvement for the over all heat transfer at the target wall. The LES predictions are validated by available experimental data.


Author(s):  
Andrew P. S. Wheeler ◽  
Richard D. Sandberg

In this paper we use direct numerical simulation to investigate the unsteady flow over a model turbine blade-tip at engine scale Reynolds and Mach numbers. The DNS is performed with a new in-house multi-block structured compressible Navier-Stokes solver purposely developed for exploiting high-performance computing systems. The particular case of a transonic tip flow is studied since previous work has suggested compressibility has an important influence on the turbulent nature of the separation bubble at the inlet to the gap and subsequent flow reattachment. The effects of free-stream turbulence, cross-flow and pressure-side boundary-layer on the tip flow aerodynamics and heat transfer are investigated. For ‘clean’ in-flow cases we find that even at engine scale Reynolds numbers the tip flow is intermittent in nature (neither laminar nor fully turbulent). The breakdown to turbulence occurs through the development of spanwise modes with wavelengths around 25% of the gap height. Cross-flows of 25% of the streamwise gap exit velocity are found to increase the stability of the tip flow, and to significantly reduce the turbulence production in the separation bubble. This is predicted through in-house linear stability analysis, and confirmed by the DNS. For the case when the inlet flow has free-stream turbulence, viscous dissipation and the rapid acceleration of the flow at the inlet to the tip-gap causes significant distortion of the vorticity field and reductions of turbulence intensity as the flow enters the tip gap. This means that only very high turbulence levels at the inlet to the computational domain significantly affect the tip heat transfer. The DNS results are compared with RANS predictions using the Spalart-Allmaras and k–ω SST turbulence models. The RANS and DNS predictions give similar qualitative features for the tip flow, but the size and shape of the inlet separation bubble and shock positions differ noticeably. The RANS predictions are particularly insensitive to free-stream turbulence.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anuj Kumar Shukla ◽  
Anupam Dewan

Purpose Convective heat transfer features of a turbulent slot jet impingement are comprehensively studied using two different computational approaches, namely, URANS (unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations) and SAS (scale-adaptive simulation). Turbulent slot jet impingement heat transfer is used where a considerable heat transfer enhancement is required, and computationally, it is a quite challenging flow configuration. Design/methodology/approach Customized OpenFOAM 4.1, an open-access computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, is used for SAS (SST-SAS k-ω) and URANS (standard k-ε and SST k-ω) computations. A low-Re version of the standard k-ε model is used, and other models are formulated for good wall-refined calculations. Three turbulence models are formulated in OpenFOAM 4.1 with second-order accurate discretization schemes. Findings It is observed that the profiles of the streamwise turbulence are under-predicted at all the streamwise locations by SST k-ω and SST SAS k-ω models, but follow similar trends as in the reported results. The standard k-ε model shows improvements in the predictions of the streamwise turbulence and mean streamwise velocity profiles in the zone of outer wall jet. Computed profiles of Nusselt number by SST k-ω and SST-SAS k-ω models are nearly identical and match well with the reported experimental results. However, the standard k-ε model does not provide a reasonable profile or quantification of the local Nusselt number. Originality/value Hybrid turbulence model is suitable for efficient CFD computations for the complex flow problems. This paper deals with a detailed comparison of the SAS model with URANS and LES for the first time in the literature. A thorough assessment of the computations is performed against the results reported using experimental and large eddy simulations techniques followed by a detailed discussion on flow physics. The present results are beneficial for scientists working with hybrid turbulence models and in industries working with high-efficiency cooling/heating system computations.


Author(s):  
Georgii Glebovich Yankov ◽  
Vladimir Kurganov ◽  
Yury Zeigarnik ◽  
Irina Maslakova

Abstract The review of numerical studies on supercritical pressure (SCP) coolants heat transfer and hydraulic resistance in turbulent flow in vertical round tubes based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and different models for turbulent viscosity is presented. The paper is the first part of the general analysis, the works based on using algebraic turbulence models of different complexity are considered in it. The main attention is paid to Petukhov-Medvetskaya and Popov et al. models. They were developed especially for simulating heat transfer in tubes of the coolants with significantly variable properties (droplet liquids, gases, SCP fluids) under heating and cooling conditions. These predictions were verified on the entire reliable experimental data base. It is shown that in the case of turbulent flow in vertical round tubes these models make it possible predicting heat transfer and hydraulic resistance characteristics of SCP flows that agree well with the existed reliable experimental data on normal and certain modes of deteriorated heat transfer, if significant influence of buoyancy and radical flow restructuring are absent. For the more complicated cases than a flow in round vertical tubes, as well as for the case of rather strong buoyancy effect, more sophisticated prediction techniques must be applied. The state-of-the-art of these methods and the problems of their application are considered in the Part II of the analysis.


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