Download or read book On Aerothermal Effects of Film Cooling on Turbine Blades with Flow Separation written by Reinaldo Araújo Gomes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Survey of Advantages and Problems Associated with Transpiration Cooling and Film Cooling of Gas turbine Blades written by Ernst Rudolf Georg Eckert and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Transpiration and film cooling promise to be effective methods of cooling gas-turbine blades; consequently, analytical and experimental investigations are being conducted to obtain a better understanding of these processes. This report serves as an introduction to these cooling methods, explains the physical processes, and surveys the information available for predicting blade temperatures and heat-transfer rates. In addition, the difficulties encountered in obtaining a uniform blade temperature are discussed, and the possibilities of correcting these difficulties are indicated. Air is the only coolant considered in the application of these cooling methods.

Download or read book Effects of Hole Separation and Size on Film Cooling of Turbine Blade written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effect of Film Hole Shape on Turbine Blade Film Cooling Performance written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effect of Wake Passing on Turbine Blade Film Cooling written by James D. Heidmann and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effect of Film Hole Shape on Turbine Blade Film Cooling Performance written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The detailed heat transfer coefficient and film cooling effectiveness distributions as well as tile detailed coolant jet temperature profiles on the suction side of a gas turbine blade A,ere measured using a transient liquid crystal image method and a traversing cold wire and a traversing thermocouple probe, respectively. The blade has only one row of film holes near the gill hole portion on the suction side of the blade. The hole geometries studied include standard cylindrical holes and holes with diffuser shaped exit portion (i.e. fanshaped holes and laidback fanshaped holes). Tests were performed on a five-blade linear cascade in a low-speed wind tunnel. The mainstream Reynolds number based on cascade exit velocity was 5.3 x 10(exp 5). Upstream unsteady wakes were simulated using a spoke-wheel type wake generator. The wake Strouhal number was kept at 0 or 0.1. Coolant blowing ratio was varied from 0.4 to 1.2. Results show that both expanded holes have significantly improved thermal protection over the surface downstream of the ejection location, particularly at high blowing ratios. However, the expanded hole injections induce earlier boundary layer transition to turbulence and enhance heat transfer coefficients at the latter part of the blade suction surface. In general, the unsteady wake tends to reduce film cooling effectiveness.Han, J. C. and Teng, S.Glenn Research CenterHEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; COOLANTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; SUCTION; TURBINE BLADES; HEAT MEASUREMENT; FILM COOLING; BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITION; CASCADE WIND TUNNELS; CYLINDRICAL BODIES; EJECTION; GAS TURBINES; HOLE DISTRIBUTION (MECHANICS); LIQUID CRYSTALS; LOW SPEED; THERMAL PROTECTION; THERMOCOUPLES; WIND TUNNELS

Download or read book Effect of Incidence on Wall Heating Rates and Aerodynamics on a Film Cooled Transonic Turbine Blade written by Cengiz Camci and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the influence of incidence on convective heat transfer to highly curved surfaces of a film-cooled turbine rotor blade. A computational study of free-stream inviscid aerodynamics without cooling at various incidences is followed by well-documented measured heat transfer data sets. The heat transfer experiments are discussed for cases with and without film cooling, performed under realistic gas turbine flow conditions in the short-duration heat transfer facility of the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics. The precise location of the stagnation point and the iso-Mach number contours in the passage for each incidence (−10, 0, 10, +15 deg) are presented for a nominal exit Mach number of 0.94. The free-stream mass flow rate was kept constant for each experiment at different incidence levels. Three rows of compound angled discrete cooling holes are located near the leading edge in a showerhead configuration. Two rows of staggered discrete cooling holes are located on the suction side and a single row of cooling holes is located on the pressure side. The short-duration measurements of quantitative wall heat fluxes on nearly isothermal blade surfaces both in the presence and absence of coolant ejection are presented. The study indicated that the change of the position of the stagnation point strongly altered the aerodynamic behavior and convective heat transfer to the blade in approximately the first 30 percent of both the pressure side and the suction side in the presence and absence of film cooling. The immediate vicinity of the stagnation point was not significantly affected by changing incidence without cooling. Transitional behavior both on the suction surface and on the pressure surface was significantly influenced by the changes in approaching flow direction. Flow separation associated with incidence variations was also observed. Extremely low levels of the convective heat transfer coefficients were experienced near the regions where small separation bubbles are located.

Download or read book Leading Edge Film Cooling Effects on Turbine Blade Heat Transfer written by Vijay K. Garg and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented at the International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition, Houston, Texas - June 5-8, 1995.

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.

Download or read book A Numerical Study of the Effect of Wake Passing on Turbine Blade Film Cooling written by James D. Heidmann and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unsteady High Turbulence Effects on Turbine Blade Film Cooling Heat Transfer Performance Using a Transient Liquid Crystal Technique written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effect of Velocity and Temperature Distribution at the Hole Exit on Film Cooling of Turbine Blades written by Vijay K. Garg and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented at the International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress & Exposition, Houston, Texas - June 5-8, 1995.

Download or read book Curvature Effects on the Heat Transfer Performance of Three Dimensional Film Cooling of Gas Turbine Blades written by E. R. G. Eckert and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film cooling is used extensively for the blades of high-performance, high-temperature gas turbines, especially for aircraft turbines. In this method, a film of coolant is injected into the boundary layer covering the skin of the blades and creating a cool layer which separates the blade surface from the hot gas stream and, in this way, reduces the blade temperature. For best performance the coolant should be injected through a slot or a strip of porous material. This, however, is not possible for turbine blades because of strength considerations, and the coolant is injected through one or several rows of holes. For aircraft gas turbines, air is used as a coolant. The present investigation, therefore, is concerned with the cooling performance of film cooling when cooling air is injected into the boundary through one or two rows of holes. A standard configuration of the coolant holes is used because it has been used in previous investigations and because configurations in actual turbine blades are close to it. The cooling holes are arranged at a distance apart equal to three times the hole diameter. For injection through two rows of holes, the two rows are staggered and the centers of the holes are on the corners of equilateral triangles. The channels which end at the blade skin in the cooling holes are inclined by an angle of 35 deg against the skin surface in the downstream direction.

Download or read book Effects of Film Cooling on Turbine Blade Tip Flow Structures and Thermal Loading written by Louis Edward Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gas turbine engines are an essential technology in aviation and power generation. One of the challenges associated with increasing the efficiency of gas turbines is the thermal loading experienced by the engine components downstream of the combustors especially the high-pressure turbine blades. High temperatures and rotational velocities can cause blade failures in numerous ways such as creep or stress rupture. Technologies like film cooling are implemented in these components to lower the thermal loading and reduce the risk of failure. However, these introduce complexities into the flow which in turn increases the difficulty of predicting the performance of film cooled turbines. Accurately predicting the capabilities of these components is essential to prevent failure in gas turbine engines. Engineers use a combination of experiments and computational simulations to understand how these technologies perform and predict the operating conditions and lifespan of these components. A combined experimental and numerical program is performed on a single stage high-pressure turbine to increase understanding of film cooling in gas turbines and improve computational methods used to predict their performance. The turbine studied is a contemporary production model from Honeywell Aerospace with both cooled and uncooled turbine blades. The experimental work is performed at The Ohio State University Gas Turbine Laboratory Turbine Test Facility, a short duration facility operating at engine corrected conditions. The experiments capture heat flux, temperature, and pressure data across the entire blade, but this work will focus on the turbine blade tip data. Tip temperature data are captured using a high-speed infrared camera providing a unique data set unseen in the current literature. In addition to the experiments, transient conjugate heat transfer simulations of a single turbine passage are performed to recreate the experiments and give insight into the flow field in the tip region of the turbine blades. The experiments and simulations are conducted to provide a better understanding of the interactions of the film cooling and tip flows along with their relationship to the thermal loading on the turbine blade tip. Film cooling in the tip region adds complexity to the flow and a non-intuitive relationship exists between film cooling and thermal loading. Addition of cooling is not guaranteed to reduce the thermal loading on the blade tips. Cooling jets can displace hot gases protecting the blade, but they are also capable of shifting flow structures and trapping hot gases near the blade surface especially so in corners of the blade tips. These direct and indirect methods of altering the thermal loading open a new path to optimization where engineers consider how the coolant alters the flow in addition to forming a protective layer of cool gas. This can be done to more effectively use coolant not only in the blade tips but elsewhere on the turbine blades leading to higher engine efficiencies and more sustainable gas turbine engines.

Download or read book Effects of Pulsing on Film Cooling of Gas Turbine Airfoils written by Sarah Marie Coulthard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this project was to determine the effects of pulsed film cooling on turbine blades. High combustor temperatures, resulting in elevated turbine inlet temperatures, produce high engine efficiency. At current operating temperatures, the turbine inlet temperature is above the melting point of the turbine blades. Thus cooling the blades in the first stages after the combustor is essential. Current methods for film cooling utilize a continuous stream of bleed air from the compressor. This air is routed into a cavity inside each blade and bled out of holes onto the blade surface, creating a film of cool air. Pulsed film cooling may reduce the amount of bleed air used, thus increasing the efficiency of the engine by allowing more air to flow through the combustor, while providing equivalent protection for the blades. In this study, a section of a turbine blade was modeled using a plate with a row of five film cooling holes. Coolant air was pulsed via solenoid valves from a plenum, while a wind tunnel provided a mainstream flow. Temperature and velocity fields were measured over the blade surface with varying blowing rates of the coolant and frequencies of pulsing. The film cooling effectiveness, a measure of how well the coolant protects the blade surface, was calculated based on the measured temperatures. The results were compared to baseline cases with continuous blowing and no blowing. The overall best case was continuous film cooling with the jet velocity one fourth of the mainstream velocity. However, results showed that pulsed film cooling has the potential to provide an equivalent or greater film cooling effectiveness for higher jet velocities. The case of pulsed jets with a jet velocity equal to the mainstream velocity, pulsing frequency of 20 Hertz, and 75% duty cycle showed an increased film cooling effectiveness and decreased heat transfer compared to the continuous blowing case. This study suggests that pulsed film cooling has the potential to adequately protect gas turbine blades with additional research, ultimately allowing for an increased efficiency in a gas turbine engine.

Download or read book Hydrodynamic Effects on Heat Transfer for Film Cooled Turbine Blades written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objectives of this project were to develop a technique for generating very high freestream turbulence levels and to determine resulting effects on turbulent boundary layer and film cooling flows. Also, included in this project was the development of a simultaneous temperature/velocity measurement technique. All of these objectives were accomplished as described below; however, film cooling flows were studied only for minimal freestream turbulence levels. Several turbulence generating devices were studied to determine the maximum turbulence levels. Tests indicated that high velocity jets in cross-flow generated turbulence levels, Tu, which ranged from Tu = 20% to 11% over a 0.65 m distance. The turbulence integral length scales for this flow were on the order of boundary layer thickness. High freestream turbulence levels caused significant increases in surface heat flux. Various correlations for freestream turbulence affects on surface heat flux were evaluated. None of these correlations were adequate; however, with slight modifications two of the correlations reasonably collapsed the data. Thermal field measurements of simulated film cooling flows with a minimal freestream turbulence level indicated that the jet detachment/reattachment scaled with the momentum flux ratio.

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.