Heat Transfer Coefficients Over a Flat Surface With Air and CO2 Injection Through Compound Angle Holes Using a Transient Liquid Crystal Image Method

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 580-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Ekkad ◽  
D. Zapata ◽  
J. C. Han

This paper presents the detailed heat transfer coefficients over a flat surface with one row of injection holes inclined streamwise at 35 deg for three blowing ratios (M = 0.5–2.0). Three compound angles of 0, 45, and 90 deg with air (D.R. = 0.98) and CO2 (D.R. = 1.46) as coolants were tested at an elevated free-stream turbulence condition (Tu ≈ 8.5 percent). The experimental technique involves a liquid crystal coating on the test surface. Two related transient tests obtained detailed heat transfer coefficients and film effectiveness distributions. Heat transfer coefficients increase with increasing blowing ratio for a constant density ratio, but decrease with increasing density ratio for a constant blowing ratio. Heat transfer coefficients increase for both coolants over the test surface as the compound angle increases from 0 to 90 deg. The detailed heat transfer coefficients obtained using the transient liquid crystal technique, particularly in the near-hole region, will provide a better understanding of the film cooling process in gas turbine components.

Author(s):  
Srinath V. Ekkad ◽  
Dyrk Zapata ◽  
Je-Chin Han

This paper presents the detailed heat transfer coefficients over a flat surface with one row of injection holes inclined streamwise at 35° for three blowing ratios (M=0.5–2.0). Three compound angles of 0°, 45°, and 90° with air (D.R.=0.98) and CO2 (D.R.=1.46) as coolants were tested at an elevated free-stream turbulence condition (Tu≈8.5%). The experimental technique involves a liquid crystal coating on the test surface. Two related transient tests obtained detailed heat transfer coefficients and film effectiveness distributions. Heat transfer coefficients increase with increasing blowing ratio for a constant density ratio but decrease with increasing density ratio for a constant blowing ratio. Heat transfer coefficients increase for both coolants over the test surface as the compound angle increases from 0° to 90°. The detailed heat transfer coefficients obtained using the transient liquid crystal technique, particularly in the near hole region, will provide a better understanding of the film cooling process in gas turbine components.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Ekkad ◽  
D. Zapata ◽  
J. C. Han

This paper presents detailed film effectiveness distributions over a flat surface with one row of injection holes inclined streamwise at 35 deg for three blowing ratios (M = 0.5, 1.0, 2.0). Three compound angles of 0, 45, and 90 deg with air (D.R. = 0.98) and CO2 (D. R. = 1.46) as coolants are tested at an elevated free-stream turbulence condition (Tu ≈ 8.5 percent). A transient liquid crystal technique is used to measure local heat transfer coefficients and film effectiveness. Detailed film effectiveness results are presented near and around film injection holes. Compound angle injection provides higher film effectiveness than simple angle injection for both coolants. Higher density injectant produces higher effectiveness for simple injection. However, lower density coolant produces higher effectiveness for a large compound angle of 90 deg. The detailed film effectiveness obtained using the transient liquid crystal technique, particularly in the near-hole region, provided a better understanding of the film cooling process in gas turbine components.


1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ou ◽  
J.-C. Han ◽  
A. B. Mehendale ◽  
C. P. Lee

The effect of unsteady wake flow and air (D.R. = 1.0) or CO2 (D.R. = 1.52) film injection on blade heat transfer coefficients was experimentally determined. A spoked wheel-type wake generator produced the unsteady wake. Experiments were performed on a five-airfoil linear cascade in a low-speed wind tunnel at the chord Reynolds number of 3 × 105 for the no-wake case and at the wake Strouhal numbers of 0.1 and 0.3. Results from a blade with three rows of film holes in the leading edge region and two rows each on the pressure and suction surfaces show that the Nusselt numbers are much higher than those for the blade without film holes. On a large portion of the blade, the Nusselt numbers “without wake but with film injection” are much higher than for “with wake but no film holes.” An increase in wake Strouhal number causes an increase in pressure surface Nusselt numbers; but the increases are reduced at higher blowing ratios. As blowing ratio increases, the Nusselt numbers for both density ratio injectants (air and CO2) increase over the entire blade except for the transition region where the effect is reversed. Higher density injectant (CO2) produces lower Nusselt numbers on the pressure surface, but the numbers for air and CO2 injections are very close on the suction surface except for the transition region where the numbers for CO2 injection are higher. From this study, one may conclude that the additional increases in Nusselt numbers due to unsteady wake, blowing ratio, and density ratio are only secondary when compared to the dramatic increases in Nusselt numbers only due to film injection over the no film holes case.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Ligrani ◽  
Matt Goodro ◽  
Mike Fox ◽  
Hee-Koo Moon

Experimental results are presented for a full-coverage film cooling arrangement which simulates a portion of a gas turbine engine, with appropriate streamwise static pressure gradient. The test surface utilizes varying blowing ratio (BR) along the length of the contraction passage which contains the cooling hole arrangement. For the different experimental conditions examined, film cooling holes are sharp-edged and streamwise inclined either at 20 deg or 30 deg with respect to the liner surface. The film cooling holes in adjacent streamwise rows are staggered with respect to each other. Data are provided for turbulent film cooling, contraction ratios of 1, 3, 4, and 5, blowing ratios (at the test section entrance) of 2.0, 5.0, and 10.0, coolant Reynolds numbers Refc of 10,000–12,000, freestream temperatures from 75 °C to 115 °C, a film hole diameter of 7 mm, and density ratios from 1.15 to 1.25. Nondimensional streamwise and spanwise film cooling hole spacings, X/D and Y/D, are 6, and 5, respectively. When the streamwise hole inclination angle is 20 deg spatially averaged and line-averaged adiabatic effectiveness values at each x/D location are about the same as the contraction ratio varies between 1, 3, and 4, with slightly higher values at each x/D location when the contraction ratio Cr is 5. For each contraction ratio, there is a slight increase in effectiveness when the blowing ratio is increased from 2.0 to 5.0 but there is no further substantial improvement when the blowing ratio is increased to 10.0. Overall, line-averaged and spatially averaged-adiabatic film effectiveness data, and spatially averaged heat transfer coefficient data are described as they are affected by contraction ratio, blowing ratio, hole angle α, and streamwise location x/D. For example, when α = 20 deg, the detrimental effects of mainstream acceleration are apparent since heat transfer coefficients for contraction ratios Cr of 3 and 5 are often higher than values for Cr = 1, especially for x/D > 100.


2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 415-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Du ◽  
Srinath V. Ekkad ◽  
Je-Chin Han ◽  
C. Pang Lee

Detailed heat transfer coefficient and film effectiveness distributions over a gas turbine blade with film cooling are obtained using a transient liquid crystal image technique. The test blade has three rows of film holes on the leading edge and two rows each on the pressure and suction surfaces. A transient liquid crystal technique maps the entire blade midspan region, and helps provide detailed measurements, particularly near the film hole. Tests were performed on a five-blade linear cascade in a low-speed wind tunnel. The mainstream Reynolds number based on cascade exit velocity is5.3×105. Two different coolants (air andCo2) were used to simulate coolant density effect. Coolant blowing ratio was varied between 0.8 and 1.2 for air injection and 0.4–1.2 forCo2injection. Results show that film injection promotes earlier laminar-turbulent boundary layer transition on the suction surface and also enhances local heat transfer coefficients (up to 80%) downstream of injection. An increase in coolant blowing ratio produces higher heat transfer coefficients for both coolants. This effect is stronger immediately downstream of injection holes. Film effectiveness is highest at a blowing ratio of 0.8 for air injection and at a blowing ratio of 1.2 forCo2injection. Such detailed results will help provide insight into the film cooling phenomena on a gas turbine blade.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 562-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Ligrani ◽  
A. E. Ramsey

Adiabatic effectiveness and iso-energetic heat transfer coefficients are presented from measurements downstream of film-cooling holes inclined at 30 deg. with respect to the test surface in spanwise/normal planes. With this configuration, holes are spaced 3d apart in the spanwise direction and 4d in the streamwise direction in two staggered rows. Results are presented for an injectant to free-stream density ratio near 1.0, and injection blowing ratios from 0.5 to 1.5. Spanwise-averaged adiabatic effectiveness values downstream of the spanwise/normal plane holes are significantly higher than values measured downstream of simple angle holes for x/d < 25–70(depending on blowing ratio) when compared for the same normalized streamwise location, blowing ratio, and spanwise and streamwise hole spacings. Spanwise-averaged iso-energetic Stanton number ratios range between 1.0 and 1.41, increase with blowing ratio at each streamwise station, and show little variation with streamwise location for each value of blowing ratio tested.


Author(s):  
Matt Goodro ◽  
Phil Ligrani ◽  
Mike Fox ◽  
Hee-Koo Moon

Experimental results are presented for a full coverage film cooling arrangement which simulates a portion of a gas turbine engine, with appropriate streamwise static pressure gradient. The test surface utilizes varying blowing ratio along the length of the contraction passage which contains the cooling hole arrangement. For the different experimental conditions examined, film cooling holes are sharp-edged and streamwise inclined either at 20° or 30° with respect to the liner surface. The film cooling holes in adjacent streamwise rows are staggered with respect to each other. Data are provided for turbulent film cooling, contraction ratios of 1, 3, 4, and 5, blowing ratios (at the test section entrance) of 2.0, 5.0, and 10.0, coolant Reynolds numbers Refc of 10,000 to 12,000, freestream temperatures from 75°C to 115°C, a film hole diameter of 7 mm, and density ratios from 1.15 to 1.25. Non-dimensional streamwise and spanwise film cooling hole spacings, X/D and Y/D, are 6, and 5, respectively. When the streamwise hole inclination angle is 20°, spatially-averaged and line-averaged adiabatic effectiveness values at each x/D location are about the same as the contraction ratio varies between 1, 3, and 4, with slightly higher values at each x/D location when the contraction ratio Cr is 5. For each contraction ratio, there is a slight increase in effectiveness when the blowing ratio is increased from 2.0 to 5.0 but there is no further substantial improvement when the blowing ratio is increased to 10.0. Overall, line-averaged and spatially-averaged adiabatic film effectiveness data, and spatially-averaged heat transfer coefficient data are described as they are affected by contraction ratio, blowing ratio, hole angle α, and streamwise location x/D. For example, when α = 20°, the detrimental effects of mainstream acceleration are apparent since heat transfer coefficients for contraction ratios Cr of 3 and 5 are often higher than values for Cr = 1, especially for x/D > 100.


Author(s):  
Srinath V. Ekkad ◽  
Dyrk Zapata ◽  
Je-Chin Han

This paper presents detailed film effectiveness distributions over a flat surface with one row of injection holes inclined streamwise at 35° for three blowing ratios (M=0.5, 1.0, 2.0). Three compound angles of 0°, 45°, and 90° with air (D.R.=0.98) and CO2 (D.R.=1.46) as coolants are tested at an elevated free-stream turbulence condition (Tu≈8.5%). A transient liquid crystal technique is used to measure local heat transfer coefficients and film effectiveness. Detailed film effectiveness results are presented near and around film injection holes. Compound angle injection provides higher film effectiveness than simple angle injection for both coolants. Higher density injectant produces higher effectiveness for simple injection. However, lower density coolant produces higher effectiveness for a large compound angle of 90°. The detailed film effectiveness obtained using the transient liquid crystal technique, particularly in the near hole region, provided a better understanding of the film cooling process in gas turbine components.


Author(s):  
Shichuan Ou ◽  
Je-Chin Han ◽  
Anant B. Mehendale ◽  
C. Pang Lee

The effect of unsteady wake flow and air (D.R.=1.0) or CO2 (D.R.=1.52) film injection on blade heat transfer coefficients was experimentally determined. A spoked wheel type wake generator produced the unsteady wake. Experiments were performed on a five airfoil linear cascade in a low speed wind tunnel at the chord Reynolds number of 3×105 for the no wake case and at the wake Strouhal numbers of 0.1 and 0.3. Results from a blade with three rows of film holes in the leading edge region and two rows each on the pressure and suction surfaces show that the Nusselt numbers are much higher than those for the blade without film holes. On a large portion of the blade, the Nusselt numbers ‘without wake but with film injection’ are much higher than for ‘with wake but no film holes’. An increase in wake Strouhal number causes an increase in pressure surface Nusselt numbers; but the increases reduce at higher blowing ratios. As blowing ratio increases, the Nusselt numbers for both density ratio injectants (air and CO2) increase over the entire blade except for the transition region where the effect is reversed. Higher density injectant (CO2) produces lower Nusselt numbers on the pressure surface, but the numbers for air and CO2 injections are very close on the suction surface except for the transition region where the numbers for CO2 injection are higher. From this study, one may conclude that the additional increases in Nusselt numbers due to unsteady wake, blowing ratio, and density ratio are only secondary when compared to the dramatic increases in Nusselt numbers only due to film injection over the no film holes case.


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