Download or read book Unsteady Characterization of Film Cooling Flows on a Rotating High pressure Turbine written by Spencer J. Sperling and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gas turbine performance is highly dependent on turbine inlet temperature, which often exceeds the working limitations of the materials involved. Film cooling is a widely used technology enabling highly efficient gas turbine cycles, where relatively cold air is injected as a film on the airfoil surfaces protecting the airfoils from the hot combustion gasses. Film cooled turbines exist in highly unsteady environments due to interactions between stationary and rotating components, and film cooling further complicates the flow. There is limited understanding of the unsteady nature of film cooling flows, resulting in limited ability to predict heat transfer and metal temperature on the components of a gas turbine. The goal of this work is to increase understanding of turbine cooling technology by examining time-accurate and time-averaged behaviors of the cooling flows. This dissertation incorporates experimental and computational analysis of pressure and heat transfer on an industry scale high-pressure turbine stage. Experimental measurements of pressure and heat transfer were performed on a turbine stage installed in the Turbine Test Facility at the Gas Turbine Laboratory. This facility is uniquely equipped to examine unsteady pressure and heat transfer on turbine stages operating at design corrected conditions. Heat transfer measurements are compared for multiple different cooling configurations on the rotating airfoils. Data are analyzed on time-averaged and time-resolved bases, and the results highlight cooling benefit differences among the various cooling hole shapes and coolant flow rates. Computational models of the turbine stage are also employed with steady and unsteady RANS modeling techniques. Experimental data are used for boundary conditions in the computational models as well as to evaluate the accuracy of the models. Comparisons of experimental and steady computations of film cooled turbines often result in poor agreement due to the complexity of film cooling flows.
Download or read book Heat Transfer Due to Unsteady Effects as Investigated in a High speed Full scale Fully cooled Turbine Vane and Rotor Stage written by Jonathan R. Mason and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 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 Analysis and Comparison of Wall Cooling Schemes for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications written by Raymond Strong Colladay and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relative performance of (1) counterflow film cooling, (2) parallel-flow film cooling, (3) convection cooling, (4) adiabatic film cooling, (5) transpiration cooling, and (6) full-coverage film cooling was investigated for heat loading conditions expected in future gas turbine engines. Assumed in the analysis were hot-gas conditions of 2200 K (3500 F) recovery temperature, 5 to 40 atmospheres total pressure, and 0.6 gas Mach number and a cooling air supply temperature of 811 K (1000 F). The first three cooling methods involve film cooling from slots. Counterflow and parallel flow describe the direction of convection cooling air along the inside surface of the wall relative to the main gas flow direction. The importance of utilizing the heat sink available in the coolant for convection cooling prior to film injection is illustrated.
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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 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.
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Download or read book The Influence of Film Cooling and Inlet Temperature Profile on Heat Transfer for the Vane Row of a 1 1 2 Stage Transonic High pressure Turbine written by Harika Senem Kahveci and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The goal of this research was to establish an extensive database for typical engine hardware with a film-cooled first stage vane, which represents the foundation for future turbomachinery film cooling modeling and component heat transfer studies. Until this time, such a database was not available within the gas turbine industry. Accordingly, the study focuses on determination of the local heat flux for the airfoil and endwall surfaces of the vane row of a fully-cooled turbine stage. The measurements were performed at the Ohio State University Gas Turbine Laboratory using the Turbine Test Facility. The full-scale rotating 1 and 1/2 turbine stage is operated at the proper corrected engine design conditions: Flow Function (FF), corrected speed, stage Pressure Ratio (PR), and temperature ratios of gas to wall and gas to coolant. The primary measurements of temperature, pressure, and heat flux are repeated for different vane inlet temperature profiles and different vane cooling flows to establish an understanding of the influence of film cooling on local heat transfer. Double-sided Kapton heat-flux gauges are used for heat-flux measurements at different span locations along the airfoil surfaces and along the inner endwall. The cooling scheme consists of numerous cooling holes located on the endwalls, at the airfoil leading edge, on the airfoil pressure and suction surfaces, and at the trailing edge, resulting in a fully cooled first stage vane. The unique film-cooled endwall heat transfer data demonstrated in contour plots reveals insight to the complex flow behavior that is dominant in this region, which becomes even more complicated with the addition of coolant. Varying profile shapes resulted in significant heat transfer variations in a growing fashion towards the trailing edge region, which increased in magnitude when there is no coolant supply. The largest cooling effect is observed on 5% span pressure surface and at the inner endwall region. Heat transfer decreases from tip towards hub with addition of cooling. However, a similar decrease is not observed at the inner endwall region by doing so, which suggests excess coolant once beyond an optimum blowing ratio. Cooling flow rate and temperature profile shape affect the distributions on the airfoil surface very similarly, the latter observed more clearly at the endwall region. The vane outer cooling effect is comparable to the combined coolant effect at all surfaces, while no impact of purge flow is observed. Aligning the hot streaks with the vane leading edge lowered heat transfer compared to mid-passage alignment at the mid-span suction surface and through the endwall passage, and increased it at the endwall exit, while the pressure surface is found to be insensitive to this switch. Comparison with a previous research program with the un-cooled version of the vane gave good agreement on the pressure surface and at the endwall, but significantly lower heat transfer on the suction surface due to ingestion of the hot flow through the cooling holes when there is no cooling.
Download or read book Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Film Cooling on the Heat Transfer Between a Shrouded Rotating Disk and a Radially Inward Flow written by Darryl E. Metzger and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 An Analysis of the Capabilities and Limitations of Turbine Air Cooling Methods written by Jack B. Esgar and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
