Coupled Heat Transfer Simulation of a Low-Pressure Turbine Vane

2014 ◽  
Vol 614 ◽  
pp. 128-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Bian ◽  
Tao Li ◽  
Liang Jiang ◽  
Rui Gang Zhang ◽  
Hong Yan Huang

A coupled heat transfer (CHT) solver was established. The solver couples the N-S equations with the heat conduction equation using the finite volume method. The developed CHT solver was verified by Mark II 5411 case. The numerical results agree well with experimental data, proving the accuracy of the developed CHT code. The solver was applied to the coupled heat transfer simulations of an air-cooled turbine with a single cooling channel. Adiabatic results and CHT results were compared. Different turbulence and transition models were employed. The result shows that the developed code is of great use in engineering simulations, and in order to predict thermal loads on turbine vane accurately, transition needs to be considered.

Author(s):  
Bruno Facchini ◽  
Andrea Magi ◽  
Alberto Scotti Del Greco

A 3D conjugate heat transfer simulation of a radially cooled gas turbine vane has been performed using STAR-CD™ code and the metal temperature distribution of the blade has been obtained. The study focused on the linear NASA-C3X cascade, for which experimental data are available; the blade is internally cooled by air through ten radially oriented circular cross section channels. According to the chosen approach, boundary conditions for the conjugate analysis were specified only at the inlet and outlet planes and on the openings of the internal cooling channels: neither temperature distribution nor heat flux profile were assigned along the walls. Static pressure, external temperature and heat transfer coefficient distributions along the vane were compared with experimental data. In addition, in order to asses the impact of transition on heat transfer profile, just the external flow (supposed fully turbulent in the conjugate approach) was separately simulated with TRAF code too and the behaviour of the transitional boundary layer has been analyzed and discussed. Loading distributions were found to be in good agreement with experiments for both conjugate and non conjugate approaches, but, since both pressure and suction side exhibit a typical transitional behavior, HTC profiles obtained without taking into account transition severely overestimate experimental data especially near the leading edge. Results confirm the significant role of transition in predicting heat transfer and, therefore, vane temperature field when a conjugate analysis is performed.


Author(s):  
M. Stripf ◽  
A. Schulz ◽  
H.-J. Bauer ◽  
S. Wittig

Two extended models for the calculation of rough wall transitional boundary layers with heat transfer are presented. Both models comprise a new transition onset correlation, which accounts for the effects of roughness height and density, turbulence intensity and wall curvature. In the transition region, an intermittency equation suitable for rough wall boundary layers is used to blend between the laminar and fully turbulent state. Finally, two different submodels for the fully turbulent boundary layer complete the two models. In the first model, termed KS-TLK-T in this paper, a sand roughness approach from Durbin et al., which builds upon a two-layer k-ε-turbulence model, is used for this purpose. The second model, the so-called DEM-TLV-T model, makes use of the discrete-element roughness approach, which was recently combined with a two-layer k-ε-turbulence model by the present authors. The discrete element model will be formulated in a new way suitable for randomly rough topographies. Part I of the paper will provide detailed model formulations as well as a description of the database used for developing the new transition onset correlation. Part II contains a comprehensive validation of the two models, using a variety of test cases with transitional and fully turbulent boundary layers. The validation focuses on heat transfer calculations on both, the suction and the pressure side of modern turbine airfoils. Test cases include extensive experimental investigations on a high-pressure turbine vane with varying surface roughness and turbulence intensity, recently published by the current authors as well as new experimental data from a low-pressure turbine vane. In the majority of cases, the predictions from both models are in good agreement with the experimental data.


2012 ◽  
Vol 455-456 ◽  
pp. 1153-1159
Author(s):  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Zhao Yuan Guo ◽  
Guo Tai Feng

The investigation was to study the effect of laminar-turbulent transition on predicting thermal load of vane. The Abu-Ghannam and Shaw (AGS) algebraic transition model was applied in the coupled solver, HIT3D. Then the solver was employed to carry out coupled heat transfer simulations, and the test case was 5411 run of NASA0-MARKⅡ vane, a high-pressure turbine vane. The results shown that AGS model was able to predict the transition process in the boundary layer near the vane, and that the simulation with such model leads to thermal load agreeing well the measured one. Then the developed solver was applied to predict a low-pressure vane, and the results shown that CHT simulation with full turbulence model would predict higher thermal load than that with transition model.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 592-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiancong Dong ◽  
Tuo Zhou ◽  
Xiaojiang Wu ◽  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Haojie Fan ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
M. Stripf ◽  
A. Schulz ◽  
H.-J. Bauer ◽  
S. Wittig

Two extended models for the calculation of rough wall transitional boundary layers with heat transfer are presented. Both models comprise a new transition onset correlation, which accounts for the effects of roughness height and density, turbulence intensity and wall curvature. In the transition region, an intermittency equation suitable for rough wall boundary layers is used to blend between the laminar and fully turbulent state. Finally, two different submodels for the fully turbulent boundary layer complete the two models. In the first model, termed KS-TLK-T in this paper, a sand roughness approach from Durbin et al., which builds upon a two-layer k-ε-turbulence model, is used for this purpose. The second model, the so-called DEM-TLV-T model, makes use of the discrete-element roughness approach, which was recently combined with a two-layer k-ε-turbulence model by the present authors. The discrete element model will be formulated in a new way suitable for randomly rough topographies. Part I of the paper will provide detailed model formulations as well as a description of the database used for developing the new transition onset correlation. Part II contains a comprehensive validation of the two models, using a variety of test cases with transitional and fully turbulent boundary layers. The validation focuses on heat transfer calculations on both, the suction and the pressure side of modern turbine airfoils. Test cases include extensive experimental investigations on a high-pressure turbine vane with varying surface roughness and turbulence intensity, recently published by the current authors as well as new experimental data from a low-pressure turbine vane. In the majority of cases, the predictions from both models are in good agreement with the experimental data.


2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliseu L. M. Monteiro ◽  
Abel I. Rouboa ◽  
António A. C. Monteiro

The production of a part by foundry techniques is influenced by its complex geometry configuration, which affects the solidification conditions and subsequent cooling. For example certain pipes, some vessels and most valves are produced by casting. To model the solidification of the complex shapes such as valves is difficult if Cartesian coordinates are used. Even simpler parts like pipes may become difficult to model because they usually are not orthogonally ruled shapes. The main objective of this paper is to describe the development of a finite volume method intended to simulate the heat transfer phenomena during the phase change process. Because of the mold design complexity, the finite volume is described using the generalized curvilinear formulation.


2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Stripf ◽  
A. Schulz ◽  
H.-J. Bauer ◽  
S. Wittig

Two extended models for the calculation of rough wall transitional boundary layers with heat transfer are presented. Both models comprise a new transition onset correlation, which accounts for the effects of roughness height and density, turbulence intensity, and wall curvature. In the transition region, an intermittency equation suitable for rough wall boundary layers is used to blend between the laminar and fully turbulent states. Finally, two different submodels for the fully turbulent boundary layer complete the two models. In the first model, termed KS-TLK-T in this paper, a sand roughness approach from (Durbin, et al., 2001, “Rough Wall Modification of Two-Layer k-ε ,” ASME J. Fluids Eng., 123, pp. 16–21), which builds on a two-layer k-ε-turbulence model, is used for this purpose. The second model, the so-called DEM-TLV-T model, makes use of the discrete-element roughness approach, which was recently combined with a two-layer k-ε-turbulence model by the present authors. The discrete-element model will be formulated in a new way suitable for randomly rough topographies. Part I of this paper will provide detailed model formulations as well as a description of the database used for developing the new transition onset correlation. Part II contains a comprehensive validation of the two models, using a variety of test cases with transitional and fully turbulent boundary layers. The validation focuses on heat transfer calculations on both the suction and the pressure side of modern turbine airfoils. Test cases include extensive experimental investigations on a high pressure turbine vane with varying surface roughness and turbulence intensity, recently published by the current authors, as well as new experimental data from a low pressure turbine vane. In the majority of cases, the predictions from both models are in good agreement with the experimental data.


2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Stripf ◽  
A. Schulz ◽  
H.-J. Bauer ◽  
S. Wittig

Two extended models for the calculation of rough wall transitional boundary layers with heat transfer are presented. Both models comprise a new transition onset correlation, which accounts for the effects of roughness height and density, turbulence intensity, and wall curvature. In the transition region, an intermittency equation suitable for rough wall boundary layers is used to blend between the laminar and fully turbulent states. Finally, two different submodels for the fully turbulent boundary layer complete the two models. In the first model, termed KS-TLK-T in this paper, a sand roughness approach from Durbin et al. (2001, “Rough Wall Modification of Two Layer k-ε ,” ASME J. Fluids Eng., 123, pp. 16–21), which builds upon a two-layer k-ε-turbulence model, is used for this purpose. The second model, the so-called DEM-TLV-T model, makes use of the discrete-element roughness approach, which was recently combined with a two-layer k-ε-turbulence model by the present authors. The discrete-element model will be formulated in a new way, suitable for randomly rough topographies. Part I of the paper will provide detailed model formulations as well as a description of the database used for developing the new transition onset correlation. Part II contains a comprehensive validation of the two models, using a variety of test cases with transitional and fully turbulent boundary layers. The validation focuses on heat transfer calculations on both the suction and the pressure side of modern turbine airfoils. Test cases include extensive experimental investigations on a high-pressure turbine vane with varying surface roughness and turbulence intensity, recently published by the current authors as well as new experimental data from a low-pressure turbine vane. In the majority of cases, the predictions from both models are in good agreement with the experimental data.


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