Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Impingement Cooling in a Combustor Liner Heat Shield

2009 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Spring ◽  
Diane Lauffer ◽  
Bernhard Weigand ◽  
Matthias Hase

A combined experimental and numerical investigation of the heat transfer characteristics inside an impingement cooled combustor liner heat shield has been conducted. Due to the complexity and irregularity of heat shield configurations, standard correlations for regular impingement fields are insufficient and detailed investigations of local heat transfer enhancement are required. The experiments were carried out in a perspex model of the heat shield using a transient liquid crystal method. Scaling of the model allowed to achieve jet Reynolds numbers of up to Rej=34,000 without compressibility effects. The local air temperature was measured at several positions within the model to account for an exact evaluation of the heat transfer coefficient. Analysis focused on the local heat transfer distribution along the heat shield target plate, side rims, and central bolt recess. The results were compared with values predicted by a standard correlation for a regular impingement array. The comparison exhibited large differences. While local values were up to three times larger than the reference value, the average heat transfer coefficient was approximately 25% lower. This emphasized that standard correlations are not suitable for the design of complex impingement cooling pattern. For thermal optimization the detailed knowledge of the local variation of the heat transfer coefficient is essential. From the present configuration, some concepts for possible optimization were derived. Complementary numerical simulations were carried out using the commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code ANSYS CFX. The motivation was to evaluate whether CFD can be used as an engineering design tool in the optimization of the heat shield configuration. For this, a validation of the numerical results was required, which for the present configuration was achieved by determining the degree of accuracy to which the measured heat transfer rates could be computed. The predictions showed good agreement with the experimental results, both for the local Nusselt number distributions as well as for averaged values. Some overprediction occurred in the stagnation regions, however, the impact on overall heat transfer coefficients was low and average deviations between numerics and experiments were in the order of only 5–20%. The numerical investigation showed that contemporary CFD codes can be used as suitable means in the thermal design process.

Metals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1367
Author(s):  
Nino Wolff ◽  
Golo Zimmermann ◽  
Uwe Vroomen ◽  
Andreas Bührig-Polaczek

Local heat transfer in gravity die casting is of great importance for precision in terms of distortion, mechanical properties, and the quality of the castings due to its effect on solidification. Depending on contact conditions such as liquid melt to solid mold, a gap between mold and component, or contact pressure between casting and mold as a result of shrinkage, there are very large differences in heat transfer. The influences of mold material, mold coating and its influence of aging, mold temperature control, and layout on the heat transfer coefficient (HTC) were investigated experimentally for different contact cases. The experiments were carried out on a rotationally symmetrical experimental setup with modular exchangeable die inserts and cores using an AlSi7Mg0.3 alloy. From the results of the individual test series, the quantitative shares of the above-mentioned influencing variables in the respective effective heat transfer coefficients were determined by means of analysis of variance. From this, the parameters having the most significant influence on the local heat balance were derived.


1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. H. Gillespie ◽  
Z. Wang ◽  
P. T. Ireland ◽  
S. T. Kohler

Cast impingement cooling geometries offer the gas turbine designer higher structural integrity and improved convective cooling when compared to traditional impingement cooling systems, which rely on plate inserts. In this paper, it is shown that the surface that forms the jets contributes significantly to the total cooling. Local heat transfer coefficient distributions have been measured in a model of an engine wall cooling geometry using the transient heat transfer technique. The method employs temperature-sensitive liquid crystals to measure the surface temperature of large-scale perspex models during transient experiments. Full distributions of local Nusselt number on both surfaces of the impingement plate, and on the impingement target plate, are presented at engine representative Reynolds numbers. The relative effects of the impingement plate thermal boundary condition and the coolant supply temperature on the target plate heat transfer have been determined by maintaining an isothermal boundary condition at the impingement plate during the transient tests. The results are discussed in terms of the interpreted flow field.


Author(s):  
David R. H. Gillespie ◽  
Zuolan Wang ◽  
Peter T. Ireland ◽  
S. Toby Kohler

Cast impingement cooling geometries offer the gas turbine designer higher structural integrity and improved convective cooling when compared to traditional impingement cooling systems which rely on plate inserts. In this paper, it is shown that the surface which forms the jets contributes significantly to the total cooling. Local heat transfer coefficient distributions have been measured in a model of an engine wall cooling geometry using the transient heat transfer technique. The method employs temperature sensitive liquid crystals to measure the surface temperature of large scale perspex models during transient experiments. Full distributions of local Nusselt number on both surfaces of the impingement plate, and on the impingement target plate are presented at engine representative Reynolds numbers. The relative effects of the impingement plate thermal boundary condition and the coolant supply temperature on the target plate heat transfer has been determined by maintaining an isothermal boundary condition at the impingement plate during the transient tests. The results are discussed in terms of the interpreted flow field.


2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Myeonggeun Choi ◽  
David M. Dyrda ◽  
David R. H. Gillespie ◽  
Orpheas Tapanlis ◽  
Leo V. Lewis

As a key way of improving jet engine performance, a thermal tip clearance control system provides a robust means of manipulating the closure between the casing and the rotating blade tips, reducing undesirable tip leakage flows. This may be achieved using an impingement cooling scheme on the external casing. Such systems can be optimized to increase the contraction capability for a given casing cooling flow. Typically, this is achieved by changing the cooled area and local casing features, such as the external flanges or the external cooling geometry. This paper reports the effectiveness of a range of impingement cooling arrangements in typical engine casing closure system. The effects of jet-to-jet pitch, number of jets, and inline and staggered alignment of jets on an engine representative casing geometry are assessed through comparison of the convective heat transfer coefficient distributions as well as the thermal closure at the point of the casing liner attachment. The investigation is primarily numerical, however, a baseline case has been validated experimentally in tests using a transient liquid crystal technique. Steady numerical simulations using the realizable k–ε, k–ω SST, and EARSM turbulence models were conducted to understand the variation in the predicted local heat transfer coefficient distribution. A constant mass flow rate was used as a constraint at each engine condition, approximately corresponding to a constant feed pressure when the manifold exit area is constant. Sets of local heat transfer coefficient data generated using a consistent modeling approach were then used to create reduced order distributions of the local cooling. These were used in a thermomechanical model to predict the casing closure at engine representative operating conditions.


Author(s):  
Myeonggeun Choi ◽  
David M. Dyrda ◽  
David R. H. Gillespie ◽  
Orpheas Tapanlis ◽  
Leo V. Lewis

As a key way of improving jet engine performance, a thermal tip clearance control system provides a robust means of manipulating the closure between the casing and the rotating blade tips, reducing undesirable tip leakage flows. This may be achieved using an impingement cooling scheme on the external casing. Such systems can be optimized to increase the contraction capability for a given casing cooling flow. Typically this is achieved by changing the cooled area, local casing features such as the external flanges, or the external cooling geometry. This paper reports the effectiveness of a range of impingement cooling arrangements in typical engine casing closure system. The effects of jet-to-jet pitch, number of jets, inline and staggered alignment of jets, on an engine representative casing geometry are assessed through comparison of the convective heat transfer coefficient distributions as well as the thermal closure at the point of the casing liner attachment. The investigation is primarily numerical, however, a baseline case has been validated experimentally in tests using a transient liquid crystal technique. Steady numerical simulations using the realizable k-ε, k-ω SST and EARSM turbulence models were conducted to understand the variation in the predicted local heat transfer coefficient distribution. Constant mass flow rate was used as a constraint at each engine condition, this approximately pertaining to a constant feed pressure when the manifold exit area is constant. Sets of local heat transfer coefficient data generated using a consistent modelling approach were then used to create reduced order distributions of the local cooling. These were used in a thermo-mechanical model to predict the casing closure at engine representative operating conditions.


2021 ◽  
pp. 171-171
Author(s):  
Leonid Plotnikov

It is a relevant objective in thermal physics and in building reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) to obtain new information about the thermal-mechanical characteristics of both stationary and pulsating gas flows in a complex gas-dynamic system. The article discusses the physical features of the gas dynamics and heat transfer of flows along the length of a gas-dynamic system typical for RICE exhaust systems. Both an experimental set-up and experimental techniques are described. An indirect method for determining the local heat transfer coefficient of gas flows in pipelines with a constant temperature hot-wire anemometer is proposed. The regularities of changes in the instantaneous values of the flow rate and the local heat transfer coefficient in time for stationary and pulsating gas flows in different elements of the gas-dynamic system are obtained. The regularities of the change in the turbulence number of stationary and pulsating gas flows along the length of RICE gas-dynamic systems are established (it is shown that the turbulence number for a pulsating gas flow is 1.3-2.1 times higher than for a stationary flow). The regularities of changes in the heat transfer coefficient along the length of the engine?s gas-dynamic system for stationary and pulsating gas flows were identified (it was established that the heat transfer coefficient for a stationary flow is 1.05-1.4 times higher than for a pulsating flow). Empirical equations are obtained to determine the turbulence number and heat transfer coefficient along the length of the gas-dynamic system.


Author(s):  
Alberto Cavallini ◽  
Davide Del Col ◽  
Marko Matkovic ◽  
Luisa Rossetto

The first preliminary tests carried on a new experimental rig for measurement of the local heat transfer coefficient inside a circular 0.8 mm diameter minichannel are presented in this paper. The heat transfer coefficient is measured during condensation of R134a and is obtained from the measurement of the heat flux and the direct gauge of the saturation and wall temperatures. The heat flux is derived from the water temperature profile along the channel, in order to get local values for the heat transfer coefficient. The test section has been designed so as to reduce thermal disturbances and experimental uncertainty. A brief insight into the design and the construction of the test rig is reported in the paper. The apparatus has been designed for experimental tests both in condensation and vaporization, in a wide range of operating conditions and for a wide selection of refrigerants.


1962 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Fand ◽  
J. Roos ◽  
P. Cheng ◽  
J. Kaye

In order to achieve a better understanding of the physical mechanism of interaction between free convection and sound, an experimental investigation of the local heat-transfer coefficient around the circumference of a heated horizontal cylinder, both in the presence and absence of a strong stationary sound field, has been carried out. The results show that superposition of intense sound upon the free-convection temperature-velocity field about a heated horizontal cylinder increases the heat-transfer coefficient both on the under and upper portions of the cylinder’s surface. In the presence of a sound field for which SPL = 146 db (re 0.0002 microbar) and f = 1500 cps, the maximum measured increases in the local heat-transfer coefficient on the under and upper portions of a 3/4-in-diam cylinder—relative to the free convection case at the same temperature potential—were found to be approximately 250 and 1200 per cent, respectively. A comparison of these results with earlier flow-visualization studies indicates that the relatively large percentage increase in the heat-transfer coefficient on the upper portion of the cylinder is caused by the oscillating vortex flow which is characteristic of thermoacoustic streaming. The reasons for the increase in the heat-transfer coefficient on the lower portion of the cylinder appear to be: (a) An increase in laminar boundary-layer velocities (steady components) in this region; and (b) modification of the boundary-layer temperature profile due to acoustically induced oscillations (unsteady components) within the laminar boundary layer. The experimental data presented can be used to check the validity of future analytical investigations of thermoacoustic phenomena.


1985 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Hay ◽  
D. Lampard ◽  
C. L. Saluja

The influence of injection of cooling films through a row of holes on the heat transfer coefficient on a flat plate is investigated for a range of mass flux ratio using a heat-mass transfer analogy. Injection angles of 35 deg and 90 deg are covered. The experimental technique employed uses a swollen polymer surface and laser holographic interferometry. The results presented show the change in local heat transfer coefficient over the no-injection values at the centerline and off-centerline locations for various streamwise stations. The effect of injection on laterally averaged heat transfer coefficients is also assessed.


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