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Item Experimental investigation of turbine blade platform film cooling and rotational effect on trailing edge internal cooling(2009-06-02) Wright, Lesley MaeThe present work has been an experimental investigation to evaluate the applicability of gas turbine cooling technology. With the temperature of the mainstream gas entering the turbine elevated above the melting temperature of the metal components, these components must be cooled, so they can withstand prolonged exposure to the mainstream gas. Both external and internal cooling techniques have been studied as a means to increase the life of turbine components. Detailed film cooling effectiveness distributions have been obtained on the turbine blade platform with a variety of cooling configurations. Because the newly developed pressure sensitive paint (PSP) technique has proven to be the most suitable technique for measuring the film effectiveness, it was applied to a variety of platform seal configurations and discrete film flows. From the measurements it was shown advanced seals provide more uniform protection through the passage with less potential for ingestion of the hot mainstream gases into the engine cavity. In addition to protecting the outer surface of the turbine components, via film cooling, heat can also be removed from the components internally. Because the turbine blades are rotating within the engine, it is important to consider the effect of rotation on the heat transfer enhancement within the airfoil cooling channels. Through this experimental investigation, the heat transfer enhancement has been measured in narrow, rectangular channels with various turbulators. The present experimental investigation has shown the turbulators, coupled with the rotation induced Coriolis and buoyancy forces, result in non-uniform levels of heat transfer enhancement in the cooling channels. Advanced turbulator configurations can be used to provide increased heat transfer enhancement. Although these designs result in increased frictional losses, the benefit of the heat transfer enhancement outweighs the frictional losses.Item Film Cooling with Forward and Backward Injection for Cylindrical and Fan-shaped Holes Using PSP Measurement Technique(2013-11-08) Chen, Andrew FA systematic study was performed to investigate the combined effects of hole geometry, blowing ratio, density ratio and free-stream turbulence intensity on flat plate film cooling with forward and backward injection. Detailed film cooling effectiveness distributions were obtained using the steady state pressure sensitive paint (PSP) technique. Four common film-hole geometries with forward injection were used in this study: simple angled cylindrical holes and fan-shaped holes, and compound angled (? = 45?) cylindrical holes and fan-shaped holes. Additional four film-hole geometries with backward injection were tested by reversing the injection direction from forward to backward to the mainstream. There are seven holes in a row on each plate and each hole is 4 mm in diameter. The blowing ratio effect is studied at 10 different blowing ratios ranging from M = 0.3 to M = 2.0. The coolant to main stream density ratio (DR) effect is studied by using foreign gases with DR = 1 (N2), 1.5 (CO_2), and 2 (15% SF6 + 85% Ar). The free stream turbulence intensity effect is tested at 0.5% and 6%. The results of the parametric effects to the film cooling effectiveness with forward injection agreed with open literatures. In general, the results show the film cooling effectiveness with backward injection is greatly reduced for shaped holes as compared with the forward injection. However, significant improvements can be seen in simple angled cylindrical hole at higher blowing ratios. Backward injection also shows improvements at near film-hole regions for compound angled cylindrical holes at higher blowing ratios. Comparison was made between the experimental data and empirical correlation for simple angled fan-shaped holes.Item Massively-Parallel Direct Numerical Simulation of Gas Turbine Endwall Film-Cooling Conjugate Heat Transfer(2011-02-22) Meador, Charles MichaelImprovements to gas turbine efficiency depend closely on cooling technologies, as efficiency increases with turbine inlet temperature. To aid in this process, simulations that consider real engine conditions need to be considered. The first step towards this goal is a benchmark study using direct numerical simulations to consider a single periodic film cooling hole that characterizes the error in adiabatic boundary conditions, a common numerical simpliflication. Two cases are considered: an adiabatic case and a conjugate case. The adiabatic case is for validation to previous work conducted by Pietrzyk and Peet. The conjugate case considers heat transfer in the solid endwall in addition to the fluid, eliminating any simplified boundary conditions. It also includes an impinging jet and plenum, typical of actual endwall configurations. The numerical solver is NEK5000 and the two cases were run at 504 and 128 processors for the adiabatic and conjugate cases respectively. The approximate combined time is 100,000 CPU hours. In the adiabatic case, the results show good agreement for average velocity profiles but over prediction of the film cooling effectiveness. A convergence study suggests that there may be an area of unresolved flow, and the film cooling momentum flux may be too high. Preliminary conjugate results show agreement with velocity profiles, and significant differences in cooling effectiveness. Both cases will need to be refined near the cooling hole exit, and another convergence study done. The results from this study will be used in a larger case that considers an actual turbine vane and film cooling hole arrangement with real engine conditions.