Turbulent Transport on the Endwall in the Region Between Adjacent Turbine Blades

1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (4a) ◽  
pp. 862-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Goldstein ◽  
R. A. Spores

The complex three-dimensional flow in the endwall region near the base of a turbine blade has an important impact on the local heat transfer. The initial horseshoe vortex, the passage vortex, and resulting corner vortices cause large variations in heat transfer over the entire endwall region. Due to these large surface gradients in heat transfer, conventional measurement techniques generally do not provide an accurate determination of the local heat transfer coefficients. In the present study, the heat/mass transfer analogy is used to examine the local transport coefficients for two different endwall boundary layer thicknesses and two free-stream Reynolds numbers. A linear turbine blade cascade is used in conjunction with a removable endwall plate. Naphthalene (C10H8) is cast into a mold on the plate and the rate of naphthalene sublimation is determined at 6000 + locations on the simulated endwall by employing a computer-aided data acquisition system. This technique allows one to obtain detailed contour plots of the local convection coefficient over the entire endwall. By examining the mass transfer contours, it is possible to infer information on the three-dimensional flow in the passage between the blades. Extremely high transport coefficients on the endwall indicate locations of potential overheating and failure in an actual turbine.

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seong-Yeon Yoo ◽  
Jong-Hark Park ◽  
Min-Ho Chung

When heat is released by forced convection from electronic modules in a narrow printed circuit board channel, complex flow phenomena—such as stagnation and acceleration on the front surface, separation and reattachment on the top surface, wake or cavity flow near the rear surface—affect the heat transfer characteristics. The purpose of this study is to investigate how these flow conditions influence the local heat transfer from electronic modules. Experiments are performed on a three-dimensional array of hexahedral elements as well as on a two-dimensional array of rectangular elements. Naphthalene sublimation technique is employed to measure three-dimensional local mass transfer, and the mass transfer data are converted to their counterparts of the heat transfer process using the analogy equation between heat and mass transfer. Module location and streamwise module spacing are varied, and the effect of vortex generators on heat transfer enhancement is also examined. Dramatic change of local heat transfer coefficients is found on each surface of the module, and three-dimensional modules have a little higher heat transfer value than two-dimensional modules because of bypass flow. Longitudinal vortices formed by vortex generator enhance the mixing of fluids and thereby heat transfer, and the rectangular wing type vortex generator is found to be more effective than the delta wing type vortex generator.


2001 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Greiner ◽  
P. F. Fischer ◽  
H. M. Tufo ◽  
R. A. Wirtz

Spectral element simulations of three-dimensional flow and augmented convection in a flat passage downstream from a fully developed channel with symmetric, transverse grooves on opposite walls were performed for 405⩽Re⩽764. Unsteady flow that develops in the grooved region persists several groove-lengths into the flat passage, increasing both local heat transfer and pressure gradient relative to that in a steady flat passage. Moreover, the heat transfer for a given pumping power in the first three groove-lengths of the flat passage was greater than the levels observed in a fully developed grooved passage.


2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 425-433
Author(s):  
Robert Kiml ◽  
Sadanari Mochizuki ◽  
Akira Murata

The present study investigates the effects of gaps between the side-walls and60∘ribs on the local heat transfer distribution between two consecutive ribs. The heat transfer and flow visualization experiments were carried out inside a straight rib-roughened duct with the ribs mounted on two opposite side walls with and without the gaps. The results showed that the existence of the gaps appreciably enhances the Nu in the area between two consecutive ribs. It is caused by (1) the introduction of the fresh air through the gaps into this region, and (2) the improvement of the three-dimensional flow structure in the area between the two ribs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-376
Author(s):  
N.A. Khan ◽  
F. Naz

AbstractThis investigation analyses a three dimensional flow and mass transfer of a second grade fluid over a porous stretching wall in the presence of suction or injection. The equations governing the flow are attained in terms of partial differential equations. A similarity transformation has been utilized for the transformation of partial differential equations into the ordinary differential equations. The solutions of the nonlinear systems are given by the homotopy analysis method (HAM). A comparative study with the previous results of a viscous fluid has been made. The convergence of the series solution has also been considered explicitly. The influence of admissible parameters on the flows is delineated through graphs and appropriate results are presented. In addition, it is found that instantaneous suction and injection reduce viscous drag on the stretching sheet. It is also shown that suction or injection of a fluid through the surface is an example of mass transfer and it can change the flow field.


1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. W. Webb ◽  
T. L. Bergman

Natural convection in an enclosure with a uniform heat flux on two vertical surfaces and constant temperature at the adjoining walls has been investigated both experimentally and theoretically. The thermal boundary conditions and enclosure geometry render the buoyancy-induced flow and heat transfer inherently three dimensional. The experimental measurements include temperature distributions of the isoflux walls obtained using an infrared thermal imaging technique, while the three-dimensional equations governing conservation of mass, momentum, and energy were solved using a control volume-based finite difference scheme. Measurements and predictions are in good agreement and the model predictions reveal strongly three-dimensional flow in the enclosure, as well as high local heat transfer rates at the edges of the isoflux wall. Predicted average heat transfer rates were correlated over a range of the relevant dimensionless parameters.


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