By merging two standard swirl chambers,an alternative cooling configuration named double swirl chambers(DSC)has been developed.In the DSC cooling configuration,the main physical phenomena of the swirl flow in swirl ch...By merging two standard swirl chambers,an alternative cooling configuration named double swirl chambers(DSC)has been developed.In the DSC cooling configuration,the main physical phenomena of the swirl flow in swirl chamber and the advantages of swirl flow in heat transfer augmentation are maintained.Additionally,three new physical phenomena can be found in DSC cooling configuration,which result in a further improvement of the heat transfer:(1)impingement effect has been observed,(2)internal heat exchange has been enhanced between fluids in two swirls,and(3)“∞”shape swirl has been generated because of cross effect between two chambers,which improves the mixing of the fluids.Because of all these improvements,the DSC cooling configuration leads to a higher globally-averaged thermal performance parameter(Nu/Nu_(∞)/(f/f0)^(1/3))than standard swirl chamber.In particular,at the inlet region,the augmentation of the heat transfer is nearly 7.5 times larger than the fully developed non-swirl turbulent flow and the circumferentially averaged Nusselt number coefficient is 41%larger than the standard swirl chamber.Within the present work,a further investigation on the DSC cooling configuration has been focused on the influence of geometry parameters e.g.merging ratio of chambers and aspect ratio of inlet duct on the cooling perfomance.The results show a very large influence of these geometry parameters in heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop ratio.Compared with the basic configuration of DSC cooling,the improved configuration with 20%to 23%merging ratio shows the highest globally-averaged themal performance parameter.With the same cross section area in tangential inlet ducts,the DSC cooling channel with larger aspect ratio shows larger heat transfer enhancement and at the same time reduced pressure drop ratio,which results in a better globally-averaged themal performance parameter.展开更多
It is known that the leading edge has the most critical heat transfer area of a gas turbine blade.The highest heat transfer rates on the airfoil can always be found on the stagnation region of the leading edge.In orde...It is known that the leading edge has the most critical heat transfer area of a gas turbine blade.The highest heat transfer rates on the airfoil can always be found on the stagnation region of the leading edge.In order to further improve the gas turbine thermal efficiency the development of more advanced internal cooling configurations at leading edge is very necessary.As the state of the art leading edge cooling configuration a concave channel with multi inline jets has been widely used in most of the blades.However,this kind of configuration also generates strong spent flow,which shifts the impingement off the stagnation point and weakens the impingement heat transfer.In order to solve this problem a new internal cooling configuration using double swirl chambers in gas turbine leading edge has been developed and introduced in this paper.The double swirl chambers cooling(DSC)technology is introduced by the authors and contributes a significant enhancement of heat transfer due to the generation of two anti-rotated swirls.In DSC-cooling,the reattachment of the swirl flows always occurs in the middle of the chamber,which results in a linear impingement effect.Compared with the reference standard impingement cooling configuration this new cooling system provides a much more uniform heat transfer distribution in the chamber axial direction and also provides a much higher heat transfer rate.In this study,the influences of different geometrical parameters e.g.merging ratio of two cylinder channels,the jet inlet hole configurations and radius of blunt protuberances in DSC have been investigated numerically.The results show that in the DSC cooling system the jet inlet hole configurations have large influences on the thermal performance.The rectangular inlet holes,especially those with higher aspect ratios,show much better heat transfer enhancement than the round inlet holes.However,as the price for it the total pressure drop is increased.Using blunt protuberances instead of sharp edges in the DSC cooling can improve the 展开更多
The Double-Jet Film-Cooling (DJFC) technology is invented by the authors and comprises a significant enhancement of the adiabatic film-cooling effectiveness due to the formation of anti-kidney vortices. The DJFC tec...The Double-Jet Film-Cooling (DJFC) technology is invented by the authors and comprises a significant enhancement of the adiabatic film-cooling effectiveness due to the formation of anti-kidney vortices. The DJFC technology places a second ejection hole with compound angle in a double-hole arrangement downstream the first hole. The second hole creates a second jet with another dominating vortex rotating in opposite direction to the first one and then combines both jets to one jet. The basic applicability and function of the DJFC technology has been proven by the numerical studies and testing in a test rig. The comparison of the experimental results of the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness to the numerical results for the same blowing ratio (M=(pc)c/(pc)h) shows qualitatively similar distributions. However, the experimental results show enhanced mixing-out of the cooling air and, thus, the experimental values of the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness are lower compared to the numerical values.展开更多
文摘By merging two standard swirl chambers,an alternative cooling configuration named double swirl chambers(DSC)has been developed.In the DSC cooling configuration,the main physical phenomena of the swirl flow in swirl chamber and the advantages of swirl flow in heat transfer augmentation are maintained.Additionally,three new physical phenomena can be found in DSC cooling configuration,which result in a further improvement of the heat transfer:(1)impingement effect has been observed,(2)internal heat exchange has been enhanced between fluids in two swirls,and(3)“∞”shape swirl has been generated because of cross effect between two chambers,which improves the mixing of the fluids.Because of all these improvements,the DSC cooling configuration leads to a higher globally-averaged thermal performance parameter(Nu/Nu_(∞)/(f/f0)^(1/3))than standard swirl chamber.In particular,at the inlet region,the augmentation of the heat transfer is nearly 7.5 times larger than the fully developed non-swirl turbulent flow and the circumferentially averaged Nusselt number coefficient is 41%larger than the standard swirl chamber.Within the present work,a further investigation on the DSC cooling configuration has been focused on the influence of geometry parameters e.g.merging ratio of chambers and aspect ratio of inlet duct on the cooling perfomance.The results show a very large influence of these geometry parameters in heat transfer enhancement and pressure drop ratio.Compared with the basic configuration of DSC cooling,the improved configuration with 20%to 23%merging ratio shows the highest globally-averaged themal performance parameter.With the same cross section area in tangential inlet ducts,the DSC cooling channel with larger aspect ratio shows larger heat transfer enhancement and at the same time reduced pressure drop ratio,which results in a better globally-averaged themal performance parameter.
文摘It is known that the leading edge has the most critical heat transfer area of a gas turbine blade.The highest heat transfer rates on the airfoil can always be found on the stagnation region of the leading edge.In order to further improve the gas turbine thermal efficiency the development of more advanced internal cooling configurations at leading edge is very necessary.As the state of the art leading edge cooling configuration a concave channel with multi inline jets has been widely used in most of the blades.However,this kind of configuration also generates strong spent flow,which shifts the impingement off the stagnation point and weakens the impingement heat transfer.In order to solve this problem a new internal cooling configuration using double swirl chambers in gas turbine leading edge has been developed and introduced in this paper.The double swirl chambers cooling(DSC)technology is introduced by the authors and contributes a significant enhancement of heat transfer due to the generation of two anti-rotated swirls.In DSC-cooling,the reattachment of the swirl flows always occurs in the middle of the chamber,which results in a linear impingement effect.Compared with the reference standard impingement cooling configuration this new cooling system provides a much more uniform heat transfer distribution in the chamber axial direction and also provides a much higher heat transfer rate.In this study,the influences of different geometrical parameters e.g.merging ratio of two cylinder channels,the jet inlet hole configurations and radius of blunt protuberances in DSC have been investigated numerically.The results show that in the DSC cooling system the jet inlet hole configurations have large influences on the thermal performance.The rectangular inlet holes,especially those with higher aspect ratios,show much better heat transfer enhancement than the round inlet holes.However,as the price for it the total pressure drop is increased.Using blunt protuberances instead of sharp edges in the DSC cooling can improve the
文摘The Double-Jet Film-Cooling (DJFC) technology is invented by the authors and comprises a significant enhancement of the adiabatic film-cooling effectiveness due to the formation of anti-kidney vortices. The DJFC technology places a second ejection hole with compound angle in a double-hole arrangement downstream the first hole. The second hole creates a second jet with another dominating vortex rotating in opposite direction to the first one and then combines both jets to one jet. The basic applicability and function of the DJFC technology has been proven by the numerical studies and testing in a test rig. The comparison of the experimental results of the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness to the numerical results for the same blowing ratio (M=(pc)c/(pc)h) shows qualitatively similar distributions. However, the experimental results show enhanced mixing-out of the cooling air and, thus, the experimental values of the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness are lower compared to the numerical values.