Wall-Resolved LES Study of Shaped-Hole Film Cooling Flow for Varying Hole Orientation

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin C. Nunno ◽  
Sicong Wu ◽  
Muhsin Ameen ◽  
Pinaki Pal ◽  
Prithwish Kundu ◽  
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Author(s):  
Siavash Khajehhasani ◽  
Bassam A. Jubran

The film cooling performance using novel sister shaped single-hole (SSSH) schemes are numerically investigated in the present study. The downstream, upstream and up/downstream SSSH configurations are formed by merging the discrete sister holes to the primary injection hole through a series of specific orientations. The obtained results are compared with a conventional cylindrical hole and a forward diffused shaped hole. The RANS simulations are performed using the realizable k-ε model with the standard wall function. Results are presented for low and high blowing ratios of 0.25 and 1.5, respectively. The film cooling effectiveness is notably increased for the novel shaped holes, particularly at the high blowing ratio of 1.5. Furthermore, a considerable decrease in the jet lift-off has been achieved for the proposed film hole geometries, wherein fully attached flow to the wall surface is observed for the upstream and up/downstream SSSH schemes.


Author(s):  
Emin Issakhanian ◽  
Christopher J. Elkins ◽  
John K. Eaton

Film cooling jets from discrete round holes are very susceptible to jet lift-off which reduces surface effectiveness. Since the experiments of Goldstein et al. (1974), shaped holes have become prominent for improved coolant coverage. Fan-shaped holes are the most common design and have shown good improvement over round holes. However, fan-shaped holes introduce additional parameters to the already complex task of modeling cooling effectiveness. This study presents velocity and vorticity fields measured using high-resolution magnetic resonance velocimetry (MRV) to study three different fan-shaped hole geome tries at two blowing ratios. Because MRV does not require line of sight, it provides otherwise hard to obtain experimental data of the flow within the film cooling hole in addition to the mainflow measurements. By allowing measurement within the cooling hole, MRV shows how poor choice of diffuser start point and angle can be detrimental to film cooling if overall hole length and cooling flow velocity are not properly accounted for in the design. The downstream effect of these choices on the jet height and counter-rotating vortex pair is also observed.


Author(s):  
T. I.-P. Shih ◽  
S. Na

Shaped holes increase film-cooling effectiveness by using the Coanda effect to make the cooling jet stay attached to the surface and an expanding flow cross-sectional area about the hole exit to make the cooling jet spread out laterally so that more surface can be cooled. Though shaped holes increase lateral spreading, downstream penetration of the coolant is reduced because the expanding cross-sectional area decreased the momentum of the cooling flow. This paper presents a new shaped-hole design concept to enable increased lateral spreading as well as greater downstream penetration. The new shaped-hole design concept involves a W-shaped cross-sectional area in which the middle part of the W-shape protrudes and widens as the W-shaped hole widens. The goal is to keep the film-cooling flow cross-sectional area nearly constant as the shaped hole widens so that momentum can be preserved to increase both lateral and streamwise coverage of the film-cooling jet. To examine the usefulness of this design concept, CFD analyses were performed for two W-shaped holes. In one design, the W-shaped hole is similar to traditional shaped holes except that the middle part of the shaped hole is protruded to form the W shape. In the other design, the W-shaped hole continues as a shallow trench that is aligned with the main flow direction to minimize the entrainment of hot gases and to reduce pressure drag and aerodynamic interference. Computed results show the W-shaped-hole design concept to be promising in enhancing surface adiabatic effectiveness.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianlong Chang ◽  
Xinlei Duan ◽  
Yang Du ◽  
Baoquan Guo ◽  
Yutian Pan

AbstractBy combining the synthetic jet and film cooling, the incident cooling flow is specially treated to find a better film cooling method. Numerical simulations of the synthetic coolant ejected are carried out for analyzing the cooling performance in detail, under different blowing ratios, hole patterns, Strouhal numbers, and various orders of incidence for the two rows of holes. By comparing the flow structures and the cooling effect corresponding to the synthetic coolant and the steady coolant fields, it is found that within the scope of the investigations, the best cooling effect can be obtained under the incident conditions of an elliptical hole with the aspect ratio of 0.618, the blow molding ratio of 2.5, and the Strouhal number St = 0.22. Due to the strong controllability of the synthetic coolant, the synthetic coolant can be controlled through adjusting the frequency of blowing and suction, so as to change the interaction between vortex structures for improving film cooling effect in turn. As a result, the synthetic coolant ejection is more advisable in certain conditions to achieve better outcomes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Yang ◽  
Guangchao Li ◽  
Jianyong Zhu

Abstract The film effectiveness was investigated on a grooved surface with the injection orientation angles of 30°, 90°, and 150° at the blowing ratios of 0.5, 0.8, 1.1, and 1.4. The injection orientation angle and the groove on the surface caused the effect of the various and irregular shaped hole injection due to the different orientation injection. The results showed that the new phenomenon of film effectiveness distributions was found on the grooved surface compared with the flat plate case. Film effectiveness distributions for the β = 30° were found to be the discontinuous strips. The surface averaged film effectiveness with the orientation angle of 30° was found to decrease with the increase of the blowing ratio. Additionally, the reverse trend was observed with the orientation angle of 150°. The film effectiveness with the orientation angle of 90° only slightly changed with the increase of the blowing ratio.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Yang ◽  
Guangchao Li ◽  
Jianyong Zhu

AbstractThe film effectiveness was investigated on a grooved surface with the injection orientation angles of 30°, 90°, and 150° at the blowing ratios of 0.5, 0.8, 1.1, and 1.4. The injection orientation angle and the groove on the surface caused the effect of the various and irregular shaped hole injection due to the different orientation injection. The results showed that the new phenomenon of film effectiveness distributions was found on the grooved surface compared with the flat plate case. Film effectiveness distributions for the β = 30° were found to be the discontinuous strips. The surface averaged film effectiveness with the orientation angle of 30° was found to decrease with the increase of the blowing ratio. Additionally, the reverse trend was observed with the orientation angle of 150°. The film effectiveness with the orientation angle of 90° only slightly changed with the increase of the blowing ratio.


Author(s):  
S. Friedrichs ◽  
H. P. Hodson ◽  
W. N. Dawes

The endwall film-cooling cooling configuration investigated by Friedrichs et al. (1996, 1997) had in principle sufficient cooling flow for the endwall, but in practice, the redistribution of this coolant by secondary flows left large endwall areas uncooled. This paper describes the attempt to improve upon this datum cooling configuration by redistributing the available coolant to provide a better coolant coverage on the endwall surface, whilst keeping the associated aerodynamic losses small. The design of the new, improved cooling configuration was based on the understanding of endwall film-cooling described by Friedrichs et al. (1996, 1997). Computational fluid dynamics were used to predict the basic flow and pressure field without coolant ejection. Using this as a basis, the above described understanding was used to place cooling holes so that they would provide the necessary cooling coverage at minimal aerodynamic penalty. The simple analytical modelling developed in Friedrichs et al. (1997) was then used to check that the coolant consumption and the increase in aerodynamic loss lay within the limits of the design goal. The improved cooling configuration was tested experimentally in a large scale, low speed linear cascade. An analysis of the results shows that the redesign of the cooling configuration has been successful in achieving an improved coolant coverage with lower aerodynamic losses, whilst using the same amount of coolant as in the datum cooling configuration. The improved cooling configuration has reconfirmed conclusions from Friedrichs et al. (1996, 1997); firstly, coolant ejection downstream of the three-dimensional separation lines on the endwall does not change the secondary flow structures; secondly, placement of holes in regions of high static pressure helps reduce the aerodynamic penalties of platform coolant ejection; finally, taking account of secondary flow can improve the design of endwall film-cooling configurations.


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