An Efficient IC Engine Conjugate Heat Transfer Calculation for Cooling System Design

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egel Urip ◽  
Song-Lin Yang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
System Design ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Ic Engine ◽  
Heat Transfer Calculation

Clocking Effects of Inlet Non-Uniformities in a Fully Cooled High-Pressure Vane: A Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duccio Griffini ◽  
Massimiliano Insinna ◽  
Simone Salvadori ◽  
Francesco Martelli
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
High Pressure ◽  
Film Cooling ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Suction Side ◽  
Heat Transfer Analysis

A high-pressure vane equipped with a realistic film-cooling configuration has been studied. The vane is characterized by the presence of multiple rows of fan-shaped holes along pressure and suction side while the leading edge is protected by a showerhead system of cylindrical holes. Steady three-dimensional Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations have been performed. A preliminary grid sensitivity analysis with uniform inlet flow has been used to quantify the effect of spatial discretization. Turbulence model has been assessed in comparison with available experimental data. The effects of the relative alignment between combustion chamber and high-pressure vanes are then investigated considering realistic inflow conditions in terms of hot spot and swirl. The inlet profiles used are derived from the EU-funded project TATEF2. Two different clocking positions are considered: the first one where hot spot and swirl core are aligned with passage and the second one where they are aligned with the leading edge. Comparisons between metal temperature distributions obtained from conjugate heat transfer simulations are performed evidencing the role of swirl in determining both the hot streak trajectory within the passage and the coolant redistribution. The leading edge aligned configuration is resulted to be the most problematic in terms of thermal load, leading to increased average and local vane temperature peaks on both suction side and pressure side with respect to the passage aligned case. A strong sensitivity of both injected coolant mass flow and heat removed by heat sink effect has also been highlighted for the showerhead cooling system.

Numerical Prediction of Combustor Heatshield Flow and Heat Transfer With Sub-Grid-Scale Modelling of Pedestals

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Luff ◽  
James J. McGuirk
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Life Prediction ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Energy Equation ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Extra Energy ◽  
Scale Modelling ◽  
Heat Transfer Calculation ◽  
Proper Account ◽  
Good Agreement

A goal for computational analysis of combustors is to produce a tool for life prediction. An important part of this will be the prediction of the temperature field in the combustor walls. The complex geometries of combustor components make this a formidable task. In this paper a 3D coupled numerical flow/conjugate heat transfer calculation procedure is presented for a combustor heatshield. Proper account must be taken of the blockage and heat transfer effects of pedestals. A scheme has been developed to account for these effects without resolving the pedestals in the computational grid. Extra sink terms are included in the momentum equations to account for pedestal pressure drop. An extra energy equation is solved to determine the local pedestal temperature and to account for heat transfer between pedestals and fluid. This treatment has been validated against empirical data for arrays of pedestals in ducts with good agreement for friction factor and Nusselt number. The methodology is then applied to a generic heatshield geometry to indicate that a viable computational route has been developed for combustor heatshield analysis.

Conjugate Heat Transfer Optimization of the Nonuniform Impingement Cooling Structure of a HPT 2nd Stage Vane

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongran Chi ◽  
Haiqing Liu ◽  
Shusheng Zang ◽  
Guangyun Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Constant Pressure ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Impingement Cooling ◽  
Turbine Cooling ◽  
Pin Fin ◽  
Heat Transfer Optimization ◽  
Pin Fin Array

This paper discusses the methodology of impingement cooling optimization of a gas turbine 2nd stage vane with 3D conjugate heat transfer (CHT) CFD analysis applied. The vane is installed with a novel impingement cooling structure in the leading cavity and a pin-fin array in the trailing edge. This study involves the optimization of the impingement cooling structure, including the location of the jet holes and the diameter of each hole. The generation of 3D model and CHT mesh was realized using an in-house code developed specifically for turbine cooling optimization. A constant pressure drop was assumed within the cooling system during optimization. To make the optimization computationally faster, a metamodel which can predict the detailed distribution of metal temperature on the vane surface was used in the second-level search together with a genetic algorithm. An optimal nonuniform impingement cooling structure in the leading cavity was automatically designed by the optimization process costing only dozens of CFD runs, which provided a more uniform temperature distribution on the vane surface and required no more coolant amount compared with the initial impingement cooling structure.

Spray Evaporative Cooling System Design for Automotive Internal Combustion Engines

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jisjoe T. Jose ◽  
Julian F. Dunne ◽  
Jean-Pierre Pirault ◽  
Christopher A. Long
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Evaporative Cooling ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
Component Level ◽  
Ic Engine ◽  
Engine Cooling ◽  
Finite Difference Equations ◽  
Evaporative Cooling System

IC engine spray evaporative cooling system design is discussed starting with a review of existing evaporative cooling systems that automotive applications are required to address. A component-level system design is proposed culminating in a simulation model of a PID strategy used to control transient gasside metal temperatures with varying engine load. The model combines a spray evaporation correlation model with 1D finite-difference equations to model the transient heat transfer through a 7 mm thick metal slab which represents the wall of a cylinderhead. Based on the simulation results, the particular changes required of existing engine cooling jacket designs are discussed.

Modeling IC Engine Conjugate Heat Transfer Using the KIVA Code

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egel Urip ◽  
Ka Heng Liew ◽  
S. L. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Ic Engine ◽  
Kiva Code

Conjugate Heat Transfer Calculations on GT Rotor Blade for Industrial Applications: Part I—Equivalent Internal Fluid Network Setup and Procedure Description

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bonini ◽  
A. Andreini ◽  
C. Carcasci ◽  
B. Facchini ◽  
A. Ciani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Rotor Blade ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Heat Transfer Analysis ◽  
Metallographic Analysis ◽  
Internal Cooling ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Fluid Network

Gas turbine design has been characterized over the years by a continuous increase of the maximum cycle temperature, justified by a corresponding increase of cycle efficiency and power output. In such way turbine components heat load management has become a compulsory activity and then, a reliable procedure to evaluate the blades and vanes metal temperatures, is, nowadays, a crucial aspect for a safe components design. This two part work presents a three-dimensional conjugate heat transfer procedure developed in the framework of an internal research project of GE Oil & Gas. The procedure, applied to the first rotor blade of the MS5002E gas turbine, consists of a conjugate heat transfer analysis in which the internal cooling system was modeled by an in-house one dimensional thermo-fluid network solver, the external heat loads and pressure distribution have been evaluated through 3D CFD and the heat conduction in the solid is carried out through a 3D FEM solution. The first part of this work is focused on the description of the procedures in terms of set up of the equivalent fluid network model of internal cooling system and its tuning through experimental measurements of blade flow function. A first computation of blade metal temperature was obtained by coupling with CFD computations carried out on a de-featured geometry of the blade. Achieved results are compared with the data of a metallographic analysis performed on a blade operated on an actual engine. Some discrepancies are observed between datasets, suggesting the necessity to improve the models, mainly from the CFD side.

Conjugate Heat Transfer Methodology for Thermal Design and Verification of Gas Turbine Cooled Components

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Winchler ◽  
Antonio Andreini ◽  
Bruno Facchini ◽  
Luca Andrei ◽  
Alessio Bonini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Conjugate Heat Transfer ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Thermal Design ◽  
Heat Transfer Analysis ◽  
Internal Cooling ◽  
Cfd Analysis ◽  
Continuous Increase

Gas turbine design has been characterized over the years by a continuous increase of the maximum cycle temperature, justified by a corresponding increase of cycle efficiency and power output. In such way, turbine components heat load management has become a compulsory activity, and then, a reliable procedure to evaluate the blades and vanes metal temperatures is, nowadays, a crucial aspect for a safe components design. In the framework of the design and validation process of high pressure turbine cooled components of the BHGE NovaLTTM 16 gas turbine, a decoupled methodology for conjugate heat transfer prediction has been applied and validated against measurement data. The procedure consists of a conjugate heat transfer analysis in which the internal cooling system (for both airfoils and platforms) is modeled by an in-house one-dimensional thermo-fluid network solver, the external heat loads and pressure distribution are evaluated through 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and the heat conduction in the solid is carried out through a 3D finite element method (FEM) solution. Film cooling effect has been treated by means of a dedicated CFD analysis, implementing a source term approach. Predicted metal temperatures are finally compared with measurements from an extensive test campaign of the engine in order to validate the presented procedure.

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