Measurement of Film Effectiveness for Cylindrical and Row Trenched Cooling Holes at Different Blowing Ratios

This study was performed to investigate the effects of cylindrical and row trenched cooling holes with alignment angle of 0° and 90° at different blowing ratios on the film-cooling performance adjacent the endwall surface of a combustor simulator. The film-cooling blowing ratios varied from 1.25 to 3.18. In this study, a three-dimensional representation of a Pratt and Whitney gas turbine engine was simulated and analyzed with a commercial finite volume package FLUENT 6.2.26. The analysis has been carried out with Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes turbulence model on internal cooling passages. This combustor simulator was combined with the interaction of two rows of dilution jets, which were staggered in the streamwise direction and aligned in the spanwise direction. Film cooling was placed along the combustor liner walls. In comparison with the baseline case of cooling holes, the application of row trenched hole near the endwall surface doubled the performance of film-cooling effectiveness.     

开槽气膜孔结构对气膜冷却和流动特性的影响

运用数值模拟的手段,从流动特性和冷却特性两方面评价了各种开槽气膜冷却孔结构的优劣。从流动的机理揭示了在相同的槽深下,不同的横槽结构对改善气膜冷却效率和流量系数的影响,并比较了在气膜孔出口和入口均开有横槽后对流动和冷却特性的影响。结果表明：开横槽后,气膜孔出口下游的冷却效率得到不同程度的改善,吹风比越大,改善的程度越明显。在横槽下游5D-10D的范围内,冷却效率的改善程度最大;在气膜孔出入口处均开有斜横槽的结构和用圆角过渡气膜孔入口处的横槽均是提高气膜冷却效率和减小气膜孔流动阻力的有效措施,而在气膜孔出口处的横槽用圆角过渡则不利于改善气膜冷却效果。     

Experimental investigations on overall cooling effect of ribbed channel with air bleeds

An experimental investigation on overall heat transfer performance of a rectangular channel, in which one wall has periodically placed oblique ribs to enhance heat exchange and cylindrical film holes to bleed cooling air, has been carried out in a hot wind tunnel at different mainstream temperatures, hot mainstream Reynolds numbers, coolant Reynolds numbers and blowing ratios. To describe the cooling effect of combined external coolant film with the internal heat convection enhanced by the ribs, the overall cooling effectiveness at the surface exposed in the mainstream with high temperature was calculated by the surface temperatures measured with an infrared thermal imaging system. The total mass flow rate of cooling air through the coolant channel was regulated by a digital mass flow rate controller, and the blowing ratio passing through the total film holes was calculated based on the measurements of another digital-type mass flow meter. The detailed distributions of overall cooling effectiveness show distinctive peaks in heat transfer levels near the film holes, remarkable inner convective heat transfer effect over entire channel surface, and visible conductive heat transfer effect through the channel wall; but only when the coolant Reynolds number is large enough, the oblique rib effect can be detected from the overall cooling effectiveness; and the oblique bleeding hole effect shows the more obvious trend with increasing blowing ratios. Based on the experimental data, the overall cooling effectiveness is correlated as the functions of Re_m (Reynolds number of hot mainstream) and Re_c (Reynolds number of internal coolant flow at entrance) for the parametric conditions examined.     

不同叶顶结构对燃气透平动叶顶部气膜冷却性能的影响

对不同叶顶结构的GE-E3叶片的气膜冷却现象进行了数值研究,比较了三种不同的叶顶结构：平顶、凹槽顶和平顶开槽孔结构在叶顶部的流动和冷却现象,并分析了吹风比对这三种结构的冷却性能的影响。发现凹槽顶和平顶开槽孔在结构上具有相似性;在叶顶开槽后,既降低了射流动量,又降低了顶端泄漏流速,有助于提高冷却效果,同时由于凹槽顶的槽比开槽孔的槽大,冷却气体和燃气在槽内充分混合,使得凹槽顶结构具有最高的冷却效率值和最低的换热系数值,平顶开槽孔结构次之。     

Effects of Trenched Film Hole Configurations on the Endwall Film Cooling and Suction Side Phantom Cooling

To maximize the turbine thermal efficiency, modern gas turbine's inlet temperature is significantly augmented within the past few decades. To prolong the lifespan of gas turbines, many efficient cooling techniques have been proposed and applied in the endwall cooling schemes. However, conventional discrete film hole does not take effect at the leading edge nearby region. In this research, how the trenched film hole configurations affects the endwall cooling and phantom cooling characteristics were deeply studied by using a verified approach. Steady 3D Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) governing equations together with the shear stress transport(SST) k-w turbulence model have been solved. Firstly, results indicate that trenched film holes greatly influence the cooling effectiveness at leading edge nearby region compared to normal case. Nevertheless, suction side phantom cooling is hardly influenced by the trenched film holes. Secondly, the case with a smaller trench width obtains higher endwall cooling effectiveness, particularly at upstream region. More importantly, the cases with W=3D achieve large cooling effectiveness at leading edge nearby region with little influence by trench depth. Additionally, majority of trenched film holes coolant flow is driven towards middle passage. Therefore, the suction side phantom cooling is unaffected by the trenched film holes.     

Numerical Assessment of the Film Cooling Through Novel Sister-Shaped Single-Hole Schemes

In the present paper, a numerical investigation is conducted on film cooling performance from novel sister-shaped single-hole schemes. Based on the sister hole film cooling technique, shaped holes are formed by merging discrete sister holes to a primary hole. Simulations are performed at four blowing ratios of 0.25, 0.5, 1, and 1.5. The novel-shaped holes resulted in a significant reduction in the jet liftoff effect in comparison with a cylindrical and a forward-diffused shaped hole. Moreover, film cooling effectiveness is notably increased at the high blowing ratios of 1 and 1.5.     

Influence of Trenched Shaped Holes on Turbine Blade Leading Edge Film Cooling

Computational results are presented for a row of coolant injection holes on each side of a high-pressure turbine blade near the leading edge. Seven hole configurations have been used to show the effect of various diffusion shaped holes and their trenching on film cooling effectiveness: (1) cylindrical film hole; (2) forward diffused film hole; (3) trenched forward diffused film hole; (4) conically flared film hole; (5) trenched conically flared film hole; (6) laterally diffused film hole; and (7) trenched laterally diffused film hole. Computational solutions of the steady, Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations are obtained using a finite-volume method. Results show that the main effect of trenching is the reduction of jet lifting off from the blade surface and so the prevention of sudden lowering of cooling effectiveness after the injection location. Moreover, hole trenching has more effect on film cooling flow on the suction side than on the pressure side. Also, the trenched laterally diffused shaped hole has the highest laterally averaged effectiveness on both the suction side and the pressure side of the blade.     

Investigation on film cooling with swirling coolant flow by optimizing the inflow chamber

Three different kinds of coolant chamber configuration for film cooling are proposed to develop the swirling coolant flow at blowing ratios ranging from 0.5 to 2.0. The results show that the difference of film cooling effectiveness for three kinds of coolant chamber configuration is little at low blowing ratio, but the advantage of swirling film cooling becomes obviously with the increase of blowing ratio. When the blowing ratio is 2.0, the jet momentum of original coolant chamber configuration is large and uniform, which leads to the lowest cooling effectiveness due to the formation of a strong kidney vortex. The first coolant chamber configuration has a low jet momentum region at upstream of the film hole, the coolant in this region interacts with high temperature mainstream and bypasses the large jet momentum coolant to attach cooling surface at downstream. The second coolant chamber configuration is sprayed with the structure of unidirectional vortex, which forms a vortex pressing on other vortex, making the coolant in pressed vortex attach surface better, producing the best coverage and the higher film cooling effectiveness.     

Flow visualization and film cooling effectiveness measurements around shaped holes with compound angle orientations

Experimental results are presented which describe film cooling performance around shaped holes with compound angle orientations. The shaped hole has a 15° forward expansion with an inclination angle of 35°, but the orientation angles vary from 0° to 30° and 60°. The blowing ratios considered are 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0. Flow visualizations are performed using an aerosol seeding method for single enlarged shaped hole to investigate the interaction between the mainstream and the injectant at the hole exit plane. The adiabatic film cooling effectiveness distributions are measured for a single row of seven shaped holes using the thermochromic liquid crystal technique. Flow visualization reveals the occurrence of hot crossflow ingestion into the film hole at the hole exit plane at a large orientation angle such as 60°. Shaped holes with simple angle injection do not provide substantial improvement in the film cooling performance compared to round holes. However, shaped holes with compound angle injection exhibit improved film cooling effectiveness up to 55% in comparison with round hole data at high blowing ratios.     

Numerical approach to film cooling effectiveness over a plate surface with coolant impingement

The aim of the present study is conducting the numerical approach to a combination of internal jet impingement and external film cooling over a flat plate. A multi-block three-dimensional Navier-Stokes code, CFX 4.4, with k-e turbulence model is used to simulate this complicated thermal-flow structure induced by the interaction of coolant jet and hot cross mainstream. By assuming the adiabatic wall boundary condition on the tested film-cooled plate, both the local and the spanwise-averaged adiabatic film cooling effectiveness are evaluated for comparison of the cooling performance at blowing ratios of Br=0.5, 1.0, and 1.5. Film flow data were obtained from a row of five cylindrical film cooling holes, inclined in angle of 35?and 0?in direction of streamwise and spanwise, respectively. The film cooling hole spacing between adjacent holes is 15 mm for all the holes. Before the coolant flow being injected through individual cooling hole then encountered with the mainstream, an impingement chamber containing an impingement plate with 43 holes is located on the path of coolant flow. Present study also focused on the effect of impingement spacing, 10mm, 20mm, and 30mm. Compare the results, we find the impingement jet has a significant effect on the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness. As the coolant impingement spacing is fixed, results indicated that higher blowing ratio would enhance the local and the spanwise-averaged adiabatic film cooling effectiveness. Moreover, neither uniform nor parabolic distribution of pressure distribution are observed within the coolant hole-pipe.     

Influence of secondary hole injection angle on enhancement of film cooling effectiveness with horn-shaped or cylindrical primary holes

Abstract

Film cooling with primary and secondary hole injection is numerically investigated. Effects of primary hole shape and secondary hole injection angle are documented. Each primary hole, either cylindrical or laterally diffused, has two secondary, cylindrical holes located symmetrically about it. Adding secondary holes improves cooling performance. Five cases of different secondary hole injection configuration are analyzed. With a cylindrical primary hole, increasing secondary hole inclination angle provides better cooling; outwardly inclining the secondary holes shows continued improvement. With horn-shaped primary holes, smaller secondary hole inclination angles provide higher cooling at lower blowing ratios; larger secondary hole inclination angles provide higher cooling at higher blowing ratios, and compound-angle secondary hole injection shows no improvement over parallel hole injection.     

Improving film cooling performance by using one -inlet and double-outlet hole

The film cooling performance of a trunk-branch hole is investigated by numerical simulation in this paper. The geometry of the hole is a novel cooling concept, which controls the vortices-pair existing at the mink hole outlet using the injection of the branch hole. The trunk-branch holes require easily machinable round hole as compared to the shaped holes. The flow cases were considered at the blowing ratios of 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0. At the low blowing ratio of 0.5, the vortices-pair at the outlet of the trunk hole is reduced and the laterally coverage of the film is improved. At the high blowing ratio of 2.0, the vortices-pair is killed by the vortex which is produced by the injection of the branch hole. The flow rate of the two outlets becomes more significantly different when the blowing ratio increases from 0.75 to 2.0. The discharge coefficients increase 0.15 and the laterally averaged film effectiveness improve 0.2 as compared to the cylindrical holes. The optimal blowing ratios occur at M=1.0 or M= 1.5 according to the various locations downstream of the holes.     

Effect of hole configurations on film cooling performance

This study aims to investigate the cooling performance of various film cooling holes, including combined hole, cylinder hole, conical hole, and fan-shaped hole. For film cooling technology, a novel combined hole configuration is first proposed to improve the cooling protection for gas turbine engines. This combined hole consists of a central cylinder hole (an inclination angle of 35°) and two additional side holes (a lateral diffusion angle of 30°). Film holes for four-hole configurations have the same inlet diameter of 8?mm. The adiabatic film cooling effectiveness for each hole configuration is analyzed for varying blowing ratios (M?=?0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1.0). Results show that the best cooling performance for the conical and fan-shaped holes is obtained at the blowing ratio of 0.75. In addition, the combined hole configuration provides a more uniform cooling protection and a better cooling performance than the other hole configurations.     

Film cooling performance of converging slot-hole rows on a gas turbine blade

Experimental tests have been performed to investigate the film cooling performance of converging slot-hole (console) rows on the turbine blade. Film cooling effectiveness of each single hole row is measured under three momentum flux ratios based on the wide-band liquid crystal technique. Measurements of the cooling effectiveness with all the hole rows open are also carried out under two coolant–mainstream flux ratios. Film cooling effectiveness of cylindrical hole rows on the same blade model is measured as a comparison. The results reveal that the trace of jets from both consoles and cylindrical holes is converging on the suction surface and expanding on the pressure surface by the influence of the passage vortex, while the influence of passage vortex on the jets from consoles is weaker. The film coverage area and the film cooling effectiveness of single/multiple console row(s) are much larger than those of single/multiple cylindrical hole row(s). When the console row is discrete and the diffusion angle of the console is not very large, the adjacent jets cannot connect immediately after ejecting out of the holes and the cooling effectiveness in the region between adjacent holes is relatively lower. On the pressure surface, the film cooling effectiveness of console rows increases notably with the increasing of momentum flux ratio or coolant–mainstream flux ratio. But on the suction side, the increase in cooling effectiveness is not very notable for console row film cooling as the coolant flux increases. Moreover, for the film cooling of single console row at the gill region of the suction surface, the jets could lift off from the blade surface because of the convex geometry of the suction surface.     

Film cooling on a gas turbine blade pressure side or suction side with axial shaped holes

The film cooling effectiveness on the surface of a high pressure turbine blade is measured using the pressure sensitive paint (PSP) technique. Four rows of axial laid-back, fan-shaped cooling holes are distributed on the pressure side while two such rows are provided on the suction side. The coolant is only injected to either the pressure side or suction side of the blade at five average blowing ratios ranging from 0.4 to 1.5. The presence of wakes due to upstream vanes is simulated by placing a periodic set of rods upstream of the test blade. Effect of the upstream wakes is recorded at four different phase locations with equal intervals along the pitch-wise direction. The freestream Mach numbers at cascade inlet and exit are 0.27 and 0.44, respectively. Results reveal that the tip leakage vortices and endwall vortices sweep the coolant film on the suction side to the midspan region. The film cooling effectiveness on the suction side is usually higher than that on the pressure side except the regions affected by the secondary vortices. The presence of upstream wakes results in lower film cooling effectiveness on the blade surface. The moderate blowing ratios (M = 0.6 or M = 0.9) give higher film cooling effectiveness immediately downstream of the film cooling holes. Further downstream of the holes, higher blowing ratios cover wider surface area.     

Film cooling performance of a row of dual-fanned holes at various injection angles

Film cooling performance about a row of dual-fanned holes with injection angles of 30°, 60 ° and 90° were experimentally investigated at blowing ratios of 1.0 and 2.0. Dual-fanned hole is a novel shaped hole which has both inlet expansion and outlet expansion. A transient thermochromic liquid crystal technique was used to reveal the local values of film cooling effectiveness and heat transfer coefficient. The results show that injection angles have strong influence on the two dimensional distributions of film cooling effectiveness and heat transfer coefficient. For the small injection angle of 30 degree and small blowing ratio of 1.0, there is only a narrow spanwise region covered with film. The increase of injection angle and blowing ratio both leads to the enhanced spanwise film diffusion, but reduced local cooling ability far away from the hole. Injection angles have comprehensive influence on the averaged film cooling effectiveness for various x/d locations. As injection angles are 30 and 60 degree, two bands of high heat transfer coefficients are found in mixing region of the gas and coolant. As injection angle increases to 90 degree, the mixing leads to the enhanced heat transfer region near the film hole. The averaged heat transfer coefficient increases with the increase of injection angle.     

孔型对水雾/空气气膜冷却特性影响的数值模拟研究

在平板表面分别开设了圆柱孔、展向扩张孔和收缩扩张孔。对比研究了3种孔型的纯空气气膜冷却和水雾/空气气膜冷却特性。在3种吹风比：0.66、1.04、1.44下展开研究。将圆柱孔的数值计算结果与文献中的实验结果进行对照以验证水雾/空气冷却数值计算方法的正确性。对3种孔型下冷却气体混合物的无量纲速度矢量图和部分水雾颗粒的运动轨迹进行了比较和分析。对3种孔型中心线和展向平均气膜冷却效率进行了比较和分析。结果表明：圆柱孔和展向扩张孔射流形成的肾形涡将水雾颗粒抬离平板表面。收缩扩张孔射流形成的肾形涡增强了水雾颗粒的展向扩散并将靠近孔口两侧区域的水雾颗粒逐渐抬离平板表面。对于圆柱孔和展向扩张孔,其射流形成的肾形涡削弱了水雾颗粒对于展向平均气膜冷却效率的提高作用,收缩扩张孔水雾/空气冷却的展向平均气膜冷却效率在3种吹风比下均大于0.6,当吹风比为1.44时,收缩扩张孔的展向平均气膜冷却效率约为展向扩张孔的2倍,圆柱孔的4倍。2种冷却方式下,在吹风比从1.04增大到1.44时,展向扩张孔中心线气膜冷却效率降低0.3左右,而收缩扩张孔中心线冷却效率的降幅小于0.1。     

基于红外热像技术的气膜冷却实验方法与应用

为了研究燃气轮机高温部件气膜冷却技术,设计了低速风洞试验台。用红外热成像温度测量技术,对平板单孔和排孔射流冷却特性进行试验研究。通过埋在平板内的高精度热电偶校正,得到准确的温度,并建立了校正关系。试验件为不锈钢平板,孔是35°圆柱斜孔,孔径D=4mm,长径比L/D=3.49,吹风比M=0.5～2.5。通过气膜冷却效率分布来描述气膜冷却效果,实验处理数据给出了在50℃、196℃、267℃时不同位置的气膜冷却效率,实验结果表明不同冷却空气量对气膜冷却效果的影响。     

Experimental investigation on the leading edge film cooling of cylindrical and laid-back holes with different hole pitches

Experimental investigation has been performed to study the film cooling performances of cylindrical holes and laid-back holes on the turbine blade leading edge. Four test models are measured for four blowing ratios to investigate the influences of film hole shape and hole pitch on the film cooling performances Film cooling effectiveness and heat transfer coefficient have been obtained using a transient heat transfer measurement technique with double thermochromic liquid crystals. As the blowing ratio increases, the trajectory of jets deviates to the spanwise direction and lifts off gradually. However, more area can benefit from the film protection under large blowing ratio, while the is also higher. The basic distribution features of heat transfer coefficients are similar for all the four models. Heat transfer coefficient in the region where the jet core flows through is relatively lower, while in the jet edge region is relatively higher. For the models with small hole pitch, the laid-back holes only give better film coverage performance than the cylindrical holes under large blowing ratio. For the models with large hole pitch, the advantage of laid-back holes in film cooling effectiveness is more obvious in the upstream region relative to the cylindrical holes. For the cylindrical hole model and the laid-back hole model with the same hole pitch, heat transfer coefficients are nearly the same with each other under the same blowing ratios. Compared with the models with large hole pitch, the laterally averaged film cooling effectiveness and heat transfer coefficient are larger for the models with small hole pitch because of larger proportion of film covering area and strong heat transfer region.     

Experimental investigation on impingement/effusion cooling with short normal injection holes

An experimental investigation on cooling performances of integrally impingement/effusion cooling configurations with film cooling holes angled normal to the mainstream flow is conducted. The adiabatic film cooling effectiveness and the overall cooling effectiveness are measured on a polycarbonate test plate and a stainless steel plate respectively. Effects of the blowing ratio (ranged from 0.6 to 2.4), multi-hole arrangement (inline and staggered), hole-to-hole pitch ratio (ranged from 3 to 5) and jet-to-target spacing ratio (ranged from 2 to 4) on the cooling performance are examined. In addition, jet impingement heat transfer is measured to evaluate the dense array jet impingement behaviors with local extraction of coolant via effusion holes. A new parameter named corrected blowing ratio is introduced in the present to evaluate the cooling effectiveness for different effusion or impingement–effusion configurations under a given quantity of cooling air. In an integrally impingement–effusion cooling configuration, multiple jet impingement with local extraction of coolant via effusion holes is able to produce higher overall heat transfer under lower jet-to-target spacing and denser jet array. The action of additional jet impingement heat transfer on improving overall cooling performance is highly dependant on the blowing ratio, multi-hole arrangement and jet-to-target spacing, which seem to be behaved superior in the situations where the film cooling effect isolating the wall surface from the hot mainstream is weak. For an integrally impingement–effusion cooling configuration, the densest hole-to-hole array is favorable in the situations where the coolant mass flow rate per unit area of cooled surface is low. As the coolant mass flow rate per unit area of cooled surface increases, the hole-to-hole pitches could be gradually enlarged to make effective utilization of array jet impingement.