Time-Averaged and Time-Resolved Heat Flux Measurements on a Turbine Stator Blade Using Two-Layered Thin-Film Gauges

2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Iliopoulou ◽  
R. De´nos ◽  
N. Billiard ◽  
T. Arts

This paper describes the steps undertaken to measure heat flux in a turbine tested in a blowdown windtunnel when using a two-layered thin film gauge array. The sensor consists of a nickel thermoresistor deposited onto a flexible polyamide sheet that can be easily bounded on a substrate using double sided adhesive. The assembly constitutes a two-layered system. First, a numerical algorithm is proposed to extract the wall heat flux from the surface temperature history measured by the thin film gauge. It is very flexible and handles multilayered systems. Then, an original procedure is proposed to determine the thermal properties and the thickness of the different layers. It uses the above numerical algorithm coupled with a minimization routine. The repeatability of the procedure is assessed. Finally, tests are processed according to the proposed method. The results are successfully compared with measurements performed with single-layered thin film gauges.

Author(s):  
V. Iliopoulou ◽  
R. De´nos ◽  
N. Billiard ◽  
T. Arts

This paper describes the steps undertaken to measure heat flux in a turbine tested in a blowdown windtunnel when using a two-layered thin film gauge array. The sensor consists of a nickel thermo resistor deposited onto a flexible polymide sheet that can be easily bounded on a substrate using double sided adhesive. The assembly constitutes a two-layered system. First, a numerical algorithm is proposed to extract the wall heat flux from the surface temperature history measured by the thin film gauge. It is very flexible and handles multi-layered systems. Then, an original procedure is proposed to determine the thermal properties and the thickness of the different layers. It uses the above numerical algorithm coupled with a minimization routine. The repeatability of the procedure is assessed. Finally, tests are processed according to the proposed method. The results are successfully compared with measurements performed with single-layered thin film gauges.


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Dunn ◽  
W. K. George ◽  
W. J. Rae ◽  
S. H. Woodward ◽  
J. C. Moller ◽  
...  

This paper presents a detailed description of an analysis technique and an application of this technique to obtain time-resolved heat flux for the blade of a Garrett TFE 731-2 hp full-stage rotating turbine. A shock tube is used as a short-duration source of heated air and platinum thin-film gages are used to obtain the heat-flux measurements. To obtain the heat-flux values from the thin-film gage temperature histories, a finite-difference procedure has been used to solve the heat equation, with variable thermal properties. The data acquisition and the data analysis procedures are described in detail and then their application is illustrated for three midspan locations on the blade. The selected locations are the geometric stagnation point, 32.7 percent wetted distance on the suction surface, and 85.5 percent wetted distance on the suction surface. For these measurements, the turbine was operating at the design flow function and very near 100 percent corrected speed. The vane–blade axial spacing was consistent with the engine operating configuration. The results demonstrate that the magnitude of the heat-flux fluctuation resulting from the vane–blade interaction is large by comparison with the time-averaged heat flux at all locations investigated. The magnitude of the fluctuation is greatest in the stagnation region and decreases with increasing wetted distance along the surface. A Fourier analysis by FFT of a portion of the heat-flux record illustrates that the dominant frequencies occur at the wake-cutting frequency and its harmonics.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Smith ◽  
J. V. Bubb ◽  
O. Popp ◽  
T. E. Diller ◽  
Stephen J. Hevey

Abstract A transient, in-situ method was examined for calibrating thin-film heat flux gauges using experimental data generated from both convection and radiation tests. Also, a comparison is made between this transient method and the standard radiation substitution calibration technique. Six Vatell Corporation HFM-7 type heat flux gauges were mounted on the surface of a 2-D, first-stage turbine rotor blade. These gauges were subjected to radiation from a heat lamp and in a separate experiment to a convective heat flux generated by flow in a transonic cascade wind tunnel. A second set of convective tests were performed using jets of cooled air impinging on the surface of the gauges. Direct measurements were simultaneously taken of both the time-resolved heat flux and surface temperature on the blade. The heat flux input was used to predict a surface temperature response using a one-dimensional, semi-infinite conduction model into a substrate with known thermal properties. The sensitivities of the gauges were determined by correlating the semi-infinite predicted temperature response to the measured temperature response. A finite-difference code was used to model the penetration of the heat flux into the substrate in order to estimate the time for which the semi-infinite assumption was valid. The results from these tests showed that the gauges accurately record both the convection and radiation modes of heat transfer. The radiation and convection tests yielded gauge sensitivities which agreed to within ±11%.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas De Cuyper ◽  
Sam Bracke ◽  
Jolien Lavens ◽  
Stijn Broekaert ◽  
Kam Chana ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Tim Roediger ◽  
Helmut Knauss ◽  
Uwe Gaisbauer ◽  
Ewald Kraemer ◽  
Sean Jenkins ◽  
...  

A novel heat flux sensor was tested which allows for time-resolved heat flux measurements in internal ribbed channels related to the study of passages in gas turbine blades. The working principle of the Atomic Layer Thermopile (ALTP) sensor is based on a thermoelectric field created by a temperature gradient over an YBCO crystal (the transverse Seebeck effect). The sensors very fast frequency response allows for highly time-resolved heat flux measurements up to the 1 MHz range. This paper explains the design and working principle of the sensor, as well as the benchmarking of the sensor for several flow conditions. For internal cooling passages, this novel sensor allows for highly accurate, time-resolved measurements of heat transfer coefficients, leading to a greater understanding of the influence of fluctuations in temperature fields.


1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. O’Brien

An experimental study is described in which both time-averaged and time-resolved effects of wake passing were measured in a cylinder stagnation region. The experiments were carried out in an annular-flow wind tunnel, which was fitted with a spoked-wheel wake generator. The cylindrical spokes produce wakes that simulate those shed from a turbine inlet guide vane. Time-averaged heat transfer results indicate an asymmetric distribution of heat transfer coefficient about the stagnation line, with higher heat transfer coefficients on the windward side (with respect to the bar-passing direction), which corresponds to the suction side of a turbine blade. This asymmetry is also reflected in the time-resolved heat transfer results, which were obtained using a test cylinder instrumented with platinum thin-film gages. Unsteady heat flux records reveal very large positive excursions (as much as a factor of three) in instantaneous heat flux during wake passing on the windward side of the cylinder and much smaller effects on the leeward side. Hot-film records in the cylinder stagnation region were also obtained by operating the thin-film gages in the constant-temperature mode. Spectra of these hot-film records indicate that vortex shedding is a major contributor to the unsteady buffeting of the test-cylinder boundary layer at circumferential stations located at both + 60 deg and − 60 deg from the stagnation line, but makes a very small contribution on the stagnation line itself.


2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Roediger ◽  
Helmut Knauss ◽  
Uwe Gaisbauer ◽  
Ewald Kraemer ◽  
Sean Jenkins ◽  
...  

A novel heat flux sensor was tested that allows for time-resolved heat flux measurements in internal ribbed channels related to the study of passages in gas turbine blades. The working principle of the atomic layer thermopile (ALTP) sensor is based on a thermoelectric field created by a temperature gradient over an yttrium-barium-copper-oxide (YBCO) crystal (the transverse Seebeck effect). The sensors very fast frequency response allows for highly time-resolved heat flux measurements up to the 1MHz range. This paper explains the design and working principle of the sensor, as well as the benchmarking of the sensor for several flow conditions. For internal cooling passages, this novel sensor allows for highly accurate, time-resolved measurements of heat transfer coefficients, leading to a greater understanding of the influence of fluctuations in temperature fields.


10.2514/3.595 ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 656-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Lewis ◽  
R. L. Simpson ◽  
T. E. Diller

1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Dunn ◽  
R. E. Chupp

Time-averaged heat-flux distributions are reported for the vane and blade of the Teledyne CAE 702 HP full-stage rotating turbine. A shock tube is used as a short-duration source of heated air to which the turbine is subjected and thin-film gages are used to obtain the heat-flux measurements. The thin-film gages were concentrated on the midspan region from the leading edge to near the trailing edge. The blade contained two contoured inserts wtih gages spaced very close together so that the leading edge distribution could be resolved. The NGV and blade results are compared with predictions obtained using a flat-plate technique, an eddy-diffusing model (STAN 5), and a k–ε model. The results of the comparison between data and prediction suggest that: (a) first, the vane data are bounded by the turbulent flat plate and the fully turbulent STAN 5 prediction. For the vane, the k–ε prediction is in relatively good agreement with the STAN 5 prediction and (b) secondly, the blade data are acceptably predicted by the k–ε prediction on both the pressure and the suction surfaces. The STAN 5 fully turbulent calculation for the blade falls above the data (essentially in agreement with the turbulent flat-plate calculation) and the STAN 5 fully laminar falls substantially below the data. With the exception of the pressure loadings and the geometry, the code inputs used for these predictions were identical to those previously used to predict the Garrett TFE 731-2 HP turbine and the Garrett LART HP turbine.


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