Numerical Analysis of Film Cooling Effectiveness Using Compound Cooling Holes at the End of Gas Turbine Engine Combustor

Numerical Analysis of Film Cooling Effectiveness Using Compound Cooling Holes at the End of Gas Turbine Engine Combustor PDF Author: Shahin Salimi
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Category : Aircraft gas-turbines
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Numerical Analysis of Film Cooling Effectiveness Using Compound Cooling Holes at the End of Gas Turbine Engine Combustor

Numerical Analysis of Film Cooling Effectiveness Using Compound Cooling Holes at the End of Gas Turbine Engine Combustor PDF Author: Shahin Salimi
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Category : Aircraft gas-turbines
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Dossier Ushio Amagatsu

Dossier Ushio Amagatsu PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 14

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Combustor Liner Film Cooling in the Presence of High Free-stream Turbulence

Combustor Liner Film Cooling in the Presence of High Free-stream Turbulence PDF Author: Albert J. Juhasz
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Category : Coatings
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Numerical Analysis for Film Cooling Performance Under Different Jet Design Criteria

Numerical Analysis for Film Cooling Performance Under Different Jet Design Criteria PDF Author: Mohammed Aref Al-Hemyari
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Category : Gas-turbines
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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"Cooling gas turbine blades is a crucial technique to allow higher turbine inlet temperatures. A higher turbine inlet temperature allows boosting gas turbine efficiency, which reduces fuel consumption. One of the main cooling techniques of the turbine blades is film cooling where a relatively low air temperature is used to form a blanket of cool air around the blade to shield it from high temperature gases. Many complex interrelated geometry and flow parameters affect the effectiveness of the film cooling. The complex interrelations between these parameters are considered the main challenge in properly understanding the effect of these parameters on film cooling. Testing such cooling techniques under actual engine conditions is even more challenging due to difficulty of installing proper instrumentations. Numerical techniques are viable analysis techniques that are used to better understand film cooling techniques. In this study, a simplified 2D film cooling jet blown from the slot jet is investigated under multiple variable parameters, mainly, the blowing ratio, jet angle, density ratio and centrifugal force. The performance of the film cooling is reported using local and average adiabatic film effectiveness. The main contribution of this study is exploring the effect of the centrifugal force and wall material selection using conjugate heat transfer on film cooling effectiveness. The centrifugal force reduces the overall adiabatic film effectiveness. A correlation between the blowing ratio, density ratio and injection angle is developed in this work. The highest film cooling performance was founded at a blowing ratio of 0.8, an injection angle of 30° and density ratio of 1.2."--Abstract.

Evaluation of Additively Manufactured Internal Cooling Channels and Film Cooling Holes for Cooling Effectiveness

Evaluation of Additively Manufactured Internal Cooling Channels and Film Cooling Holes for Cooling Effectiveness PDF Author: Emma Veley
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Cooling of the high-pressure turbine in a gas turbine engine is essential for durability because the gas temperature entering the turbine exceeds the melting point of the hardware. Both internal and external cooling reduces the temperature of the blades and vanes. Using air that bypassed the combustor as coolant, the convective heat transfer from the hardware to this internal coolant is often augmented by ribs or a serpentine path. To cool the external surface, coolant passes through holes on the outer wall of airfoil. The coolant creates a protective film on the surface. The shape of the cooling hole influences the cooling effectiveness of this film cooling. Additive manufacturing facilitates rapid prototyping compared to traditional manufacturing methods, which can be exploited for designing and evaluating cooling schemes of gas turbine hardware. The work in this dissertation used additive manufacturing to investigate the cooling performance of several internal and external cooling schemes manufactured in at engine scale for the unique objective of determining the impacts of the internal cooling scheme on the external cooling. A variety of cooling hole shapes were investigated for this work: cylindrical hoes, meter-diffuser shaped holes, and novel optimized holes. Once additively manufactured, the as-built cooling hole surfaces were analyzed to determined their roughness and minimum cross-sectional areas. The arithmetic mean roughness of holes built at the optimal build orientation (perpendicular to the build plate) were on the order of 10 [mu]m; whereas those investigated at other build orientations had roughness values up to 75 [mu]m. For the holes built perpendicular to the substrate the minimum cross-sectional area was usually greater than the design intent but within 15%. The additive process also created an overbuilt lip on the leading edge (windward) side of the hole exit for these holes because of the thin wall thickness in the design. Using these cooling holes, the impact of rounding on meter-diffuser shaped holes and optimized holes on overall effectiveness was investigated. The rounding, which came in the form of inlet fillets on the meter-diffuser shaped holes, was found to decrease the required pressure ratio to obtain the same cooling effectiveness. The deviations from the design due to the additive process caused the novel cooling hole shapes designed through adjoint optimization to perform differently than anticipated. For example, the coolant jet from hole designed for co-flow did not bifurcate as the computational simulation showed. The cross-flow optimized hole outperformed the co-flow optimized hole for most of the tested blowing ratio when both holes were tested in a co-flow configuration. These results from the novel optimized holes proved the necessity of experimentally verifying new designs prior to incorporating into final cooling schemes. The effect of supply channel height, number of channels, ribs, and the cross-sectional shape of the supply channel was investigated to determine the impact of each on the overall effectiveness. Designs that had high overall effectiveness from only internal cooling had less augmentation in effectiveness from film cooling than designs with less effective internal cooling. For example, a ribbed channel typically had a lower film-cooling augmentation than the film-cooling augmentation for same supply channel without ribs. However, a highly effective feed channel can obtain a higher overall effectiveness without any film cooling than a poorly performing feed channel can obtain with film cooling. But the features that create a highly effective feed channel can also cause the cooling jet to lift-off the surface and mix with the hot gas path, which was seen with some rib and hole combinations and with the triangle -- vertex down supply channels. Therefore, the hole shape, the supply channel geometry, and the junction between the two all significantly contribute to a cooling scheme's performance and all three must be considered concurrently to create an optimal cooling design.

Analysis and Comparison of Wall Cooling Schemes for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications

Analysis and Comparison of Wall Cooling Schemes for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications PDF Author: Raymond Strong Colladay
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Category : Cooling
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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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.

Numerical Analysis of Film Cooling at High Blowing Ratio

Numerical Analysis of Film Cooling at High Blowing Ratio PDF Author: Lamyaa El-Gabry
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289236779
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Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Computational Fluid Dynamics is used in the analysis of a film cooling jet in crossflow. Predictions of film effectiveness are compared with experimental results for a circular jet at blowing ratios ranging from 0.5 to 2.0. Film effectiveness is a surface quantity which alone is insufficient in understanding the source and finding a remedy for shortcomings of the numerical model. Therefore, in addition, comparisons are made to flow field measurements of temperature along the jet centerline. These comparisons show that the CFD model is accurately predicting the extent and trajectory of the film cooling jet; however, there is a lack of agreement in the near-wall region downstream of the film hole. The effects of main stream turbulence conditions, boundary layer thickness, turbulence modeling, and numerical artificial dissipation are evaluated and found to have an insufficient impact in the wake region of separated films (i.e. cannot account for the discrepancy between measured and predicted centerline fluid temperatures). Analyses of low and moderate blowing ratio cases are carried out and results are in good agreement with data.

Numerical Study of Louver Cooling Scheme on Gas Turbine Airfoils

Numerical Study of Louver Cooling Scheme on Gas Turbine Airfoils PDF Author: Xuezhi Zhang
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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.

Experimental and Computational Studies of Film Cooling with Compound Angle Injection

Experimental and Computational Studies of Film Cooling with Compound Angle Injection PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 31

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The thermal efficiency of gas turbine systems depends largely on the turbine inlet temperature. Recent decades have seen a steady rise in the inlet temperature and a resulting reduction in fuel consumption. At the same time, it has been necessary to employ intensive cooling of the hot components. Among various cooling methods, film cooling has become a standard method for cooling of the turbine airfoils and combustion chamber walls. The University of Minnesota program is a combined experimental and computational study of various film-cooling configurations. Whereas a large number of parameters influence film cooling processes, this research focuses on compound angle injection through a single row and through two rows of holes. Later work will investigate the values of contoured hole designs. An appreciation of the advantages of compound angle injection has risen recently with the demand for more effective cooling and with improved understanding of the flow; this project should continue to further this understanding. Approaches being applied include: (1) a new measurement system that extends the mass/heat transfer analogy to obtain both local film cooling and local mass (heat) transfer results in a single system, (2) direct measurement of three-dimensional turbulent transport in a highly-disturbed flow, (3) the use of compound angle and shaped holes to optimize film cooling performance, and (4) an exploration of anisotropy corrections to turbulence modeling of film cooling jets.

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports PDF Author:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 994

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