Download or read book Experimental Study on Film Cooling of Gas Turbine Airfoils Using Shaped Holes written by Hans Claudius Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Experimental Study on Film Cooling of Gas Trubine Airfoils Using Shaped Holes written by Hans Claudius Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Experimental Investigation of Film Cooling Effectiveness on Gas Turbine Blades written by Zhihong Gao and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hot gas temperature in gas turbine engines is far above the permissible metal temperatures. Advanced cooling technologies must be applied to cool the blades, so they can withstand the extreme conditions. Film cooling is widely used in modern high temperature and high pressure blades as an active cooling scheme. In this study, the film cooling effectiveness in different regions of gas turbine blades was investigated with various film hole/slot configurations and mainstream flow conditions. The study consisted of four parts: 1) effect of upstream wake on blade surface film cooling, 2) effect of upstream vortex on platform purge flow cooling, 3) influence of hole shape and angle on leading edge film cooling and 4) slot film cooling on trailing edge. Pressure sensitive paint (PSP) technique was used to get the conduction-free film cooling effectiveness distribution. For the blade surface film cooling, the effectiveness from axial shaped holes and compound angle shaped holes were examined. Results showed that the compound angle shaped holes offer better film effectiveness than the axial shaped holes. The upstream stationary wakes have detrimental effect on film effectiveness in certain wake rod phase positions. For platform purge flow cooling, the stator-rotor gap was simulated by a typical labyrinth-like seal. Delta wings were used to generate vortex and modeled the passage vortex generated by the upstream vanes. Results showed that the upstream vortex reduces the film cooling effectiveness on the platform. For the leading edge film cooling, two film cooling designs, each with four film cooling hole configurations, were investigated. Results showed that the shaped holes provide higher film cooling effectiveness than the cylindrical holes at higher average blowing ratios. In the same range of average blowing ratio, the radial angle holes produce better effectiveness than the compound angle holes. The seven-row design results in much higher effectiveness than the three-row design. For the trailing edge slot cooling, the effect of slot lip thickness on film effectiveness under the two mainstream conditions was investigated. Results showed thinner lips offer higher effectiveness. The film effectiveness on the slots reduces when the incoming mainstream boundary layer thickness decreases.

Download or read book Film Cooling with Ejection from a Row of Inclined Circular Holes written by Christian Liess and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Experimental Investigation of Film Cooling Effectiveness on Gas Turbine Blades written by Shiou-Jiuan Li and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High turbine inlet temperature becomes necessary for increasing thermal efficiency of modern gas turbines. To prevent failure of turbine components, advance cooling technologies have been applied to different portions of turbine blades. The detailed film cooling effectiveness distributions along a rotor blade has been studied under combined effects of upstream trailing edge unsteady wake with coolant ejection by the pressure sensitive paint (PSP). The experiment is conducted in a low speed wind tunnel with a five blade linear cascade and exit Reynolds number is 370,000. The density ratios for both blade and trailing edge coolant ejection range from 1.5 to 2.0. Blade blowing ratios are 0.5 and 1.0 on suction surface and 1.0 and 2.0 on pressure surface. Trailing edge jet blowing ratio and Strouhal number are 1.0 and 0.12, respectively. Results show the unsteady wake reduces overall effectiveness. However, the unsteady wake with trailing edge coolant ejection enhances overall effectiveness. Results also show that the overall effectiveness increases by using heavier coolant for ejection and blade film cooling. Leading edge film cooling has been investigated using PSP. There are two test models: seven and three-row of film holes for simulating vane and blade, respectively. Four film holes' configurations are used for both models: radial angle cylindrical holes, compound angle cylindrical holes, radial angle shaped holes, and compound angle shaped holes. Density ratios are 1.0 to 2.0 while blowing ratios are 0.5 to 1.5. Experiments were conducted in a low speed wind tunnel with Reynolds number 100,900. The turbulence intensity near test model is about 7%. The results show the shaped holes have overall higher effectiveness than cylindrical holes for both designs. As increasing density ratio, density effect on shaped holes becomes evident. Radial angle holes perform better than compound angle holes as increasing blowing and density ratios. Increasing density ratio generally increases overall effectiveness for all configurations and blowing ratios. One exception occurs for compound angle and radial angle shaped hole of three-row design at lower blowing ratio. Effectiveness along stagnation row reduces as increasing density ratio due to coolant jet with insufficient momentum caused by heavier density coolant, shaped hole, and stagnation row. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148288

Download or read book Heat Transfer in Gas Turbines written by Bengt Sundén and published by Witpress. This book was released on 2001 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents and reflects current active research on various heat transfer topics and related phenomena in gas turbine systems. It begins with a general introduction to gas turbine heat transfer, before moving on to specific areas.

Download or read book Experimental Study of Film Cooling and Heat Transfer on a Gas Turbine Vane with Shaped Holes written by Tarek Elnady and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prediction of Film Cooling on Gas Turbine Airfoils written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Experimental Study of Stagnation Region Film Cooling for Application to Gas Turbine Airfoils written by Warren J. Mick and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Numerical Study of Louver Cooling Scheme on Gas Turbine Airfoils written by Xuezhi Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents the performance of a louver film-cooling scheme under different operating conditions. The louver cooling scheme consists of a bend by which the coolant going through the flow passage is redirected from vertical to horizontal direction before being injected into the mainstream through an expanded exit. Not only is the momentum of the coolant converted to the mainstream direction, but it is also reduced by the expanded exit before injection. The impingement of the coolant on the blade surface inside the bend also enables further cooling on the targeted surface. The louver cooling scheme was tested under a variety of conditions, from a flat plate to airfoils, from low speed incompressible flows to transonic flows, from a stationary airfoil to a rotating airfoil, and from the leading edge to the middle of an airfoil. Unsteady analysis using a DES (Detached Eddy Simulation) model was also carried out to evaluate its ability to accurately simulate film cooling by comparing with steady state analysis. In general, the louver cooling scheme has been proved to provide enhanced cooling protection to the targeted surface in comparison with other cooling schemes in all conditions tested. At low speed incompressible flow conditions, a higher blowing ratio led to a higher cooling effectiveness. At transonic flow conditions, a moderately higher blowing ratio also proved helpful with a higher cooling effectiveness. Very high blowing ratios, however, proved to be detrimental to the cooling performance since strong detached shock wave structures due to high blowing ratios caused boundary layer separation, rendering the coolant virtually ineffective. The rotation of blade was found to have a significant impact on the level of cooling effectiveness at the leading edge of an airfoil. With regard to the cooling performance, blowing ratio was the dominant factor at low rotational speeds and the rotational speed was the dominant factor at high blowing ratios for circular holes. For the louver scheme as jet liftoff was avoided, effectiveness increased with rotating speed. Results also showed that, unsteady analysis was not significantly more accurate than steady analysis. The unsteady analysis did capture the coolant lateral spreading better, with a high cost of computing, however. Results in this work show that shock waves encountered on transonic airfoils had a significant impact on film cooling effectiveness on any shaped holes. Therefore, experimental data obtained under low speed test should be used with great caution in real design of turbine blade cooling. There are fundamental differences in film cooling between at the leading edge and elsewhere on an airfoil in that a slight incidence shifting due to turbine rotating speed may cause a sudden decrease in cooling effectiveness level at high blowing ratios for circular hole. This could lead to a catastrophic failure if the blade is already in a weak and stressed state. Using of shaped holes with expanded exits may prevent this from happening.

Download or read book An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Massive Film Cooling on the Aerodynamics of a Turbine Airfoil written by James Edward Hartsel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Variable Incidence Angle Film Cooling Experiments on a Scaled Up Turbine Airfoil Model written by Kyle Feliciano Chavez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focused on three main areas of research - the development of a new type of low-speed, closed-loop wind tunnel design to test at varying incidence angles, the investigation of film cooling for gas turbine components at varying incidence angles, and the analysis of the heat transfer and flow field predictive capability of RANS models. In order to develop the closed loop wind tunnel, a rigorous design and validation process was followed. This validated design is unique for low-speed closed-loop facilities. The development of this wind tunnel enabled measurements of adiabatic and overall effectiveness of two highly realistic airfoil models with shaped holes at varying incidence angles. This was accomplished through application of the appropriate aerodynamic and heat transfer scaling parameters for all measurements. Among other results, it was found that the shaped holes at the stagnation row of holes significantly enhanced film cooling effectiveness in the high curvature region of the showerhead depending on the incidence angle tested, and that the incidence angle effect persisted on the matched Biot number model. No previous studies had experimentally investigated the effects of incidence angle effects on overall effectiveness of a full-coverage airfoil. Furthermore, no previous studies had investigated the effect of shaped holes in the showerhead region of a realistic airfoil model such as the one used in this study. Finally, the computational predictive capability of various RANS turbulence models were analyzed by predicting the heat transfer coefficient of the model as well as the turbulence production and turning angle of a vertical array of rods used to generate turbulence in the tunnel. It was found that the computational predictions of leading-edge heat transfer were under-predicted due to the shape of the model leading edge. It was also found that the SST-Transition model appropriately predicted downstream turbulence and turning angle of the vertical rod array when compared to experimental results and empirical correlations in the literature. This is the first study to experimentally and computationally investigate the turning angle of a vertical grid array over a range of zero and non-zero inlet flow angles.

Download or read book Film Cooling Wih Ejection from a Row of Inclined Circular Holes written by Christian Liess and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gas Turbine Heat Transfer and Cooling Technology Second Edition written by Je-Chin Han and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference for engineers and researchers, Gas Turbine Heat Transfer and Cooling Technology, Second Edition has been completely revised and updated to reflect advances in the field made during the past ten years. The second edition retains the format that made the first edition so popular and adds new information mainly based on selected published papers in the open literature. See What’s New in the Second Edition: State-of-the-art cooling technologies such as advanced turbine blade film cooling and internal cooling Modern experimental methods for gas turbine heat transfer and cooling research Advanced computational models for gas turbine heat transfer and cooling performance predictions Suggestions for future research in this critical technology The book discusses the need for turbine cooling, gas turbine heat-transfer problems, and cooling methodology and covers turbine rotor and stator heat-transfer issues, including endwall and blade tip regions under engine conditions, as well as under simulated engine conditions. It then examines turbine rotor and stator blade film cooling and discusses the unsteady high free-stream turbulence effect on simulated cascade airfoils. From here, the book explores impingement cooling, rib-turbulent cooling, pin-fin cooling, and compound and new cooling techniques. It also highlights the effect of rotation on rotor coolant passage heat transfer. Coverage of experimental methods includes heat-transfer and mass-transfer techniques, liquid crystal thermography, optical techniques, as well as flow and thermal measurement techniques. The book concludes with discussions of governing equations and turbulence models and their applications for predicting turbine blade heat transfer and film cooling, and turbine blade internal cooling.

Download or read book Evaluation of Film Cooling Superposition Method on the Suction Side of a Blade Model written by Christopher Yoon and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film cooling is often used for turbine airfoil cooling, and there are numerous studies of the performance of a single row of holes. Typically, blades and vanes in gas turbine engines have multiple rows of holes that interact. Consequently, there is a need to develop techniques to predict film cooling performance with multiple rows of holes. One of the method is to superposition single row cooling effectiveness to predict combined effectiveness. Although there have been many studies of superposition techniques with multiple rows of cylindrical holes, there have been very few in which shaped holes were used with a typical turbine airfoil model. In this study, film effectiveness was measured on the suction side of a turbine blade model using two rows of 7-7-7 shaped holes, with pitch to diameter ratio of 6, and the two rows were more than 40 diameters apart. Measurements were made with each row operating independently, which provided the experimental data for superposition predictions. These predictions were evaluated with effectiveness measurements with both rows operational. For these combined row tests, two different upstream blowing ratios and a wide range of downstream blowing ratios were selected. The superposition predictions were reasonably accurate when the upstream blowing ratio was high with a corresponding smaller film effectiveness downstream (due to jet separation). However, when the upstream coolant holes were operated at optimum blowing ratio with maximum film effectiveness downstream, the superposition analysis predicted film effectiveness levels slightly lower than actual levels. These results indicate that there was an interaction between jets that resulted in higher film effectiveness than what the superposition method had predicted

Download or read book Computational Film Cooling Methods for Gas Turbine Airfoils written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A previously documented CFD methodology is further generalized and applied to realistic turbine airfoil film cooling test cases. First, a series of fundamental test cases are examined in order to document the ability of the robust and practical CFD methodology to deal with the effects of the individually isolated key physics mechanisms on film cooling. These include: (1) favorable and adverse pressure gradients; (2) convex curvature; (3) horseshoe vortex; (4) profile losses with and without coolant jets; (5) laminar-to-turbulent boundary layer transition; and (6) discontinuities. Second, in addition to the fundamental flow test cases, two turbine airfoil cascade, one low subsonic and another transonic, configurations were modeled. The subsonic cascade case was designed to study the aerodynamics losses with and without film cooling jets, as well as, the adiabatic effectiveness for a range of parameters. The transonic turbine cascade represents a truly modern design at realistic engine conditions. A total of 18 test configurations, corresponding to compound-round, axial-shaped, and compound-shaped film holes, are simulated in order to document in detail the current state of the readily available robust and practical CFD technology for use by the gas turbine design community.

Download or read book Gas Turbine Blade Cooling written by Chaitanya D Ghodke and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gas turbines play an extremely important role in fulfilling a variety of power needs and are mainly used for power generation and propulsion applications. The performance and efficiency of gas turbine engines are to a large extent dependent on turbine rotor inlet temperatures: typically, the hotter the better. In gas turbines, the combustion temperature and the fuel efficiency are limited by the heat transfer properties of the turbine blades. However, in pushing the limits of hot gas temperatures while preventing the melting of blade components in high-pressure turbines, the use of effective cooling technologies is critical. Increasing the turbine inlet temperature also increases heat transferred to the turbine blade, and it is possible that the operating temperature could reach far above permissible metal temperature. In such cases, insufficient cooling of turbine blades results in excessive thermal stress on the blades causing premature blade failure. This may bring hazards to the engine's safe operation. Gas Turbine Blade Cooling, edited by Dr. Chaitanya D. Ghodke, offers 10 handpicked SAE International's technical papers, which identify key aspects of turbine blade cooling and help readers understand how this process can improve the performance of turbine hardware.