scholarly journals Experimental investigation of thermal performance in a rectangular channel using compound structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 8624-8634
Author(s):  
Prakash Santosh Patil ◽  
K. K. Dhande

An experimental study was conducted to measure the heat transfer and pressure drop in a rectangular channel emphasizing a compound structure to improve the cooling performance of gas turbine blades. W shaped, semicircular, and multi semicircular shaped ribs with dimples are studied and applied to a lower surface of a channel. The experiment was carried out at a Reynolds number ranging from 10,000 to 32,000 and the ratio of pitch (P) to height (e) of the rib was 10. Also, the ratio of rib height (e) to channel hydraulic diameter (Dh) was 0.187  and the dimple depth (δ) to dimple diameter (D) ratio was 0.2. It was observed that the combination of ribs and dimple channel (compound channel) has an average of 23 %  more heat transfer than the ribbed channel. W rib compound channel shows the highest thermal performance and enhanced up to 30 % more heat transfer than semi and multi-semicircular compound channel. friction rise was observed in the compound channel compared to the ribbed channel.

Author(s):  
Yao-Hsien Liu ◽  
Lesley M. Wright ◽  
Wen-Lung Fu ◽  
Je-Chin Han

Rib turbulators are commonly used to enhance the heat transfer within internal cooling passages of advanced gas turbine blades. Many factors affect the thermal performance of a cooling channel with ribs. This study experimentally investigates the effect of rib spacing on the heat transfer enhancement, pressure penalty, and thus the overall thermal performance in both rotating and non-rotating rectangular, cooling channels. In the 1:2 rectangular channels, 45° angled ribs are placed on the leading and trailing surfaces. The pitch of the ribs varies, so rib pitch-to-height (P/e) ratios of 10, 7.5, 5, and 3 are considered. Square ribs with a 1.59 mm × 1.59 mm cross-section are used for all spacings, so the height-to-hydraulic diameter (e/Dh) ratio remains constant at 0.094. With a constant rotational speed of 550 rpm and the Reynolds number ranging from 5000 to 40000, the rotation number in turn varies from 0.2 to 0.02. Because the skewed turbulators induce secondary flow along the length of the rib, the very close rib spacing of P/e = 3, has the best thermal performance in both rotating and non-rotating channels. This close spacing yields the greatest heat transfer enhancement, while the P/e = 5 spacing has the greatest pressure penalty. In addition, the effect of rotation is more pronounced in the channel with the rib spacing of 3. As more ribs are added, the channel is approaching a smooth channel, and the strength of the rotation induced vortices increases.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3 Part A) ◽  
pp. 1593-1600
Author(s):  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Quan Hong ◽  
Yuanyuan Dou ◽  
Honghu Ji ◽  
Rui Chen

The effect of the rib width to height ratio t/e and width to pitch ratio t/p on the local heat transfer distribution in a rectangular matrix ribbed channel with two opposite in line 45? ribs are experimentally investigated for Reynolds numbers from 54000 to 150000. The rib height to channel height ratio e/H is 0.5, t/p and t/e both varies in range of 0.3-0.5. To simulate the actually situation in turbine blades, and provide useful direct results for turbine blade designers, the parameters are same with the blade. The experiments results show that, in comparison to fully developed flow in a smooth pipe of equivalent hydraulic diameter, the Nusselt number inside the matrix-ribbed rectangular channel is increased up to 5 to 9 times higher, while total pressure drop is enlarged by up to significant magnitude. The Nusselt number ratio increases with t/p and t/e increased. Semi-empirical heat transfer is developed for designing of cooling channel.


Author(s):  
Michael Maurer ◽  
Jens von Wolfersdorf ◽  
Michael Gritsch

An experimental and numerical study was conducted to determine the thermal performance of V-shaped ribs in a rectangular channel with an aspect ratio of 2:1. Local heat transfer coefficients were measured using the steady state thermochromic liquid crystal technique. Periodic pressure losses were obtained with pressure taps along the smooth channel sidewall. Reynolds numbers from 95,000 to 500,000 were investigated with V-shaped ribs located on one side or on both sides of the test channel. The rib height-to-hydraulic diameter ratios (e/Dh) were 0.0625 and 0.02, and the rib pitch-to-height ratio (P/e) was 10. In addition, all test cases were investigated numerically. The commercial software FLUENT™ was used with a two-layer k-ε turbulence model. Numerically and experimentally obtained data were compared. It was determined that the heat transfer enhancement based on the heat transfer of a smooth wall levels off for Reynolds numbers over 200,000. The introduction of a second ribbed sidewall slightly increased the heat transfer enhancement whereas the pressure penalty was approximately doubled. Diminishing the rib height at high Reynolds numbers had the disadvantage of a slightly decreased heat transfer enhancement, but benefits in a significantly reduced pressure loss. At high Reynolds numbers small-scale ribs in a one-sided ribbed channel were shown to have the best thermal performance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Author(s):  
Shintaro Hayakawa ◽  
Takashi Fukue ◽  
Hidemi Shirakawa ◽  
Wakana Hiratsuka

This study aims to develop a novel water-cooled device that increases heat transfer performance while inhibiting the increase of pumping power for next-generation electronic equipment. Our previous reports have reported that the combination of the pulsating flow, which is the unsteady flow that the supply flow rate is periodically changed likes a blood in the body of human beings, and the rib has higher cooling efficiency. In this report, in order to optimize the dimensions of the ribs from the viewpoint of the cooling performance, an investigation of the pulsating flow around the rib was conducted through 2D-CFD analysis while changing the height of the rib. It was found that the level of the heat transfer enhancement was dependent on the rib height.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Singh ◽  
P. K. Panigrahi ◽  
G. Biswas

Abstract A numerical study of rib augmented cooling of turbine blades is reported in this paper. The time-dependent velocity field around a pair of symmetrically placed ribs on the walls of a three-dimensional rectangular channel was studied by use of a modified version of Marker-And-Cell algorithm to solve the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes and energy equations. The flow structures are presented with the help of instantaneous velocity vector and vorticity fields, FFT and time averaged and rms values of components of velocity. The spanwise averaged Nusselt number is found to increase at the locations of reattachment. The numerical results are compared with available numerical and experimental results. The presence of ribs leads to complex flow fields with regions of flow separation before and after the ribs. Each interruption in the flow field due to the surface mounted rib enables the velocity distribution to be more homogeneous and a new boundary layer starts developing downstream of the rib. The heat transfer is primarily enhanced due to the decrease in the thermal resistance owing to the thinner boundary layers on the interrupted surfaces. Another reason for heat transfer enhancement can be attributed to the mixing induced by large-scale structures present downstream of the separation point.


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 30-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farouk Kebir ◽  
Azzeddine Khorsi

Film cooling is vital for gas turbine blades to protect them from thermal stresses and high temperatures due to the hot gas flow in the blade surface. Film cooling is applied to almost all external surfaces associated with aerodynamic profiles that are exposed to hot combustion gases such as main bodies, end-walls, blade tips and leading edges. In a review of the literature, it was found that there are strong effects of free-stream turbulence, surface curvature and hole shape on film cooling performance also blowing ratio. The performance of the film cooling is difficult to predict due to the inherent complex flow fields along the surfaces of the airfoil components in the turbine engines. From all what we introducing the film cooling is reviewed through a discussion of the analyses methodologies, a physical description, and the various influences on film-cooling performance. Initially Computational analysis was done on a flat plate with hole inclined at 55° to the surface plate. This study focuses on the efficient computation of film cooling flows with three blowing ratio. The numerical results show the effectiveness cooling and heat transfer behavior with increasing injection blowing ratio M (0.5, 1, and 1.5). The influence of increased blade film cooling can be assessed via the values of Nusselt number in terms of reduced heat transfer to the blade. Predictions of film effectiveness are compared with experimental results for a circular jet at blowing ratios ranging from 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5. The present results are obtained at a free stream turbulence of 10%, which are the typical conditions upstream of the effectiveness is generally lower for a large stream-wise angle of 55°.


Author(s):  
Jiang Lei ◽  
Shiou-Jiuan Li ◽  
Je-Chin Han ◽  
Luzeng Zhang ◽  
Hee-Koo Moon

This paper experimentally investigates the effect of turning vane on hub region heat transfer in a multi-pass rectangular channel with rib-roughed wall at high rotation numbers. The experimental data were taken in the second and the third passages (Aspect Ratio = 2:1) connected by 180° U-bend. The flow was radial inward in the second passage and was radial outward after the 180° U-bend in the third passage. The square-edged ribs with P/e = 8, e/Dh = 0.1, and α = 45° were applied on the leading and trailing surfaces of the second and third passages. Results showed that rotation increases heat transfer on the leading surface but decreases it on the trailing surface in the second passage. In the third passage, rotation decreases heat transfer on the leading surface but increases it on the trailing surface. Without a turning vane, rotation reduces heat transfer on the trailing surface and increases it on the leading surface in the hub 180° turn region. After adding a half-circle-shaped turning vane, heat transfer coefficients do not change in the second passage before-turn while they are different in the turn region and after-turn region in the third passage. Regional heat transfer coefficients and channel loss coefficients are correlated with rotation numbers for multi-pass rectangular ribbed channel with and without a turning vane.


2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (13) ◽  
pp. 1077-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Heidrich ◽  
Jens V. Wolfersdorf ◽  
Martin Schnieder

1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Rued ◽  
S. Wittig

The accurate prediction of heat transfer coefficients on cooled gas turbine blades requires consideration of various influence parameters. The present study continues previous work with special efforts to determine the separate effects of each of several parameters important in turbine flow. Heat transfer and boundary layer measurements were performed along a cooled flat plate with various freestream turbulence levels (Tu = 1.6−11 percent), pressure gradients (k = 0−6 × 10−6), and cooling intensities (Tw/T∞ = 1.0−0.53). Whereas the majority of previously available results were obtained from adiabatic or only slightly heated surfaces, the present study is directed mainly toward application on highly cooled surfaces as found in gas turbine engines.


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