Shenghui Zhang, S. Ding, Chuankai Liu, Gang Zhao, Jie Wang
{"title":"A Discussion: Issue Improving the Accuracy of Turbine Blade Heat Transfer Simulation","authors":"Shenghui Zhang, S. Ding, Chuankai Liu, Gang Zhao, Jie Wang","doi":"10.1115/gt2021-58820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-58820","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 To be able to set uniform inlet boundary conditions in simulation, there must be an inlet extension at the first guide vane. In the inlet extension, turbulence experiences strong numerical dissipation, which has not been paid attention to. In the current paper, the influence of the numerical dissipation of turbulence on accuracy in predicting heat transfer was discussed. Two cases, where the numerical dissipation of turbulence was neglected, were analysed. In the first case, wrong conclusion about effect of turbulence scale on heat transfer was drawn: blade heat transfer increases with inlet turbulence scale under the same inlet turbulence intensity. The mechanism for the wrong conclusion is that turbulence with larger scale numerically dissipates more slowly in the inlet extension so that turbulence intensity at blade leading edge is greater under turbulence with larger scale, it is the turbulence intensity not turbulence scale itself really affects heat transfer. In the second case, when the numerical dissipation of turbulence is neglected and turbulence parameters at measuring plane of inlet are directly as input for turbulence boundary condition, flow transition is postponed downstream and heat transfer error is greater, however, when the numerical dissipation of turbulence is considered and turbulence parameters at measuring plane are regard as benchmark and matched by adjusting parameters of inlet turbulence boundary condition, the result shows better agreement with experiment. Thus, the correct way to set turbulence boundary condition is to match turbulence parameters at measuring plane by adjusting parameters of inlet turbulence boundary.","PeriodicalId":385341,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5B: Heat Transfer — General Interest; Internal Air Systems; Internal Cooling","volume":"84 Pt 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129022605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental and Numerical Study on Impingement Heat Transfer and Flow Characteristics on a Semicircular Ribbed Target Surface","authors":"Wang Kang, Hui-ren Zhu","doi":"10.1115/gt2021-58897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-58897","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Impact cooling is an effective way to enhance heat transfer, especially in the gas turbine blades. In the leading edge of the blade where has the high heat load, jet impingement cooling is widely used due to its high heat transfer characteristic in stagnation region. The focus is on finding a cooling structure that can improve the heat transfer effect of the internal impact structure at the leading edge without increasing the internal flow resistance. In this paper, using transient liquid crystal experiments researches for the flow and heat transfer characteristics of a semi-circular structure, which is simplified from the real blade leading edge ’s inside surface and have different rib structures. This paper studies five cases:no rib, round-shaped raised structure, oblique rib, round-shaped raised structure and oblique rib and span-wise rib and arc rib to find their heat transfer and flow characteristics. Some rib-shaped protrusion has three heights, which are 30%, 50%, 70% of the impact distance H. Experimental conditions of Reynolds number are Re = 10000, 15000, 20000, 25000, 30000. The experimental verification results show that the internally strengthened heat transfer structures studied in this paper can improve the heat transfer effect of the leading edge array of the turbine blade impact target surface without increasing the flow resistance. The structure with both oblique ribs and round-shaped raised structures has the highest surface average Nusselt number of the target plate and the lowest discharge coefficient of the channel. The structure with both span-wise ribs and arc ribs has a staggered high heat transfer area distribution, which can maybe use in some special cases.","PeriodicalId":385341,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5B: Heat Transfer — General Interest; Internal Air Systems; Internal Cooling","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124752649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical Investigations on the Aerodynamic Performance and Endwall Cooling Characteristics of Turbine During Acceleration Process With Lagging Effects","authors":"Qingfeng Cong, Zhigang Li, Jun Li","doi":"10.1115/gt2021-59142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-59142","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the process of turbine acceleration, due to the influence of compressor and complex secondary air system, the change process of coolant purge flow is relatively lagging behind that of mainstream flow and rotational speed. The lagging egress of coolant flow influence the aerodynamic performance and endwall cooling effectiveness of turbine acceleration process. The flow field and aerothermal performance of two-stage axial turbines combined with rim seal structures and coolant purge flow lagging effects in the turbine acceleration process was numerically investigated using Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) via SST turbulence model. The effects of lagging coolant purge flow across the rim seal on the turbine aerodynamics and endwall cooling effectiveness were analyzed. The obtained results show that the turbine aerodynamic efficiency obtains the maximum value when the coolant purge flow lagging time equals to half the acceleration time at the same rotational speed after the end of lagging times. The total-to-total efficiency for the second stage is more sensitive to lagging times. The turbine output power is almost un-changed due to combination of additional work capacity and aerodynamic loss with the introduction of coolant. The turbine endwalls have the maximum averaged cooling effectiveness in the turbine acceleration process without consideration of the coolant purge flow lagging time. And endwall cooling effectiveness decreases with the increase of coolant purge flow lagging time at the same rotational speed and mainstream flow conditions. The detailed flow field of two-stage turbine considering interaction between the coolant purge flow and mainstream was also discussed. The present work provides the reference for the match design between the turbine mainstream flow and secondary air flow system.","PeriodicalId":385341,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5B: Heat Transfer — General Interest; Internal Air Systems; Internal Cooling","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131389164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. McNichols, Scott M. Jones, Arman Mirhashemi, Paht Juangphanich, V. Shyam
{"title":"Preliminary Study of Heat Pipe Turbine Vane Cooling in the NASA N+3 Reference Engine","authors":"E. McNichols, Scott M. Jones, Arman Mirhashemi, Paht Juangphanich, V. Shyam","doi":"10.1115/gt2021-59352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-59352","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper investigates the effects of implementing Heat Pipe Turbine Vane (HPTV) cooling in the NASA N+3 engine. The HPTV can be thought of as a heat pipe in the shape of a turbine vane, functioning as both an aerodynamic body and heat exchanger. The heat-absorbing section of the HPTV remains fixed in the vanes of the high-pressure turbine (HPT), while the heat-rejecting section can be placed in any stage of the low pressure turbine (LPT) as well as the bypass stream. The optimal location of the condensing (heat-rejecting) section is shown to be in the bypass stream for both HPT stages. The thrust-specific fuel consumption (TSFC) increased by 0.2%, which is mainly attributed to the elimination of air cooling in the second stage HPT vanes combined with the transfer of energy from the main gas path to elsewhere in the cycle. Air cooling is also eliminated in the first stage HPT vanes, but this cooling air is nonchargeable. A preliminary design is proposed and shown to demonstrate the desired performance and operates below the heat flux limitations of the heat pipe.","PeriodicalId":385341,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5B: Heat Transfer — General Interest; Internal Air Systems; Internal Cooling","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114726834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on Conjugate Thermal Performance of a Steam-Cooled Ribbed Channel with Thick Metallic Walls","authors":"Lei Xi, Liang Xu, Jianmin Gao, Zhen Zhao","doi":"10.1115/gt2021-58386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-58386","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this work, a conjugate heat transfer model was established to numerically investigate the conjugate thermal performance of a steam-cooled ribbed channel with thick metallic walls. By employing the software of ANSYS CFX, the flow field in the channel and the temperature field in the solid channel were calculated. The flow behavior, heat transfer performance and temperature gradient distributions of ribbed channels with wall thickness (δ) of 1–5 mm, rib height-to-hydraulic diameter (e/D) of 0.047–0.188, rib pitch-to-height ratio (P/e) of 5–15 and rib angle-of-attack (α) of 30°–90° were compared and analyzed. The optimum structure parameters of thick-wall ribbed channel with higher heat transfer performance and lower maximum temperature gradient were obtained. The results show that the SST k-ω turbulence model is more suitable for the conjugate heat transfer problem of steam in the thick-wall ribbed channels. The friction factor reduces gradually with the increase of Re, increases greatly with the increase of e/D and α, and first increases then decreases with the increase of P/e. The average Nusselt number increases up to 8.81 times, while the maximum temperature gradient decreases about 45.35% when Reynolds number varies from 10,000 to 70,000. The rib angle of about 45°–60°, e/D of 0.188, and P/e of 10 are suitable to obtain the optimum thermal performance of steam flow in the ribbed channel. The influence of δ on the flow and heat transfer characteristics is non-significant.","PeriodicalId":385341,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5B: Heat Transfer — General Interest; Internal Air Systems; Internal Cooling","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123823493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I-Lun Chen, I. Sahin, L. Wright, Je-Chin Han, Robert Krewinkel
{"title":"Heat Transfer in a Rotating, Blade-Shaped, Two-Pass Cooling Channel With a Variable Aspect Ratio","authors":"I-Lun Chen, I. Sahin, L. Wright, Je-Chin Han, Robert Krewinkel","doi":"10.1115/gt2021-59400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-59400","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study features a rotating, blade-shaped, two-pass cooling channel with a variable aspect ratio. Internal cooling passages of modern gas turbine blades closely follow the shape and contour of the airfoils. Therefore, the cross-section and the orientation with respect to rotation varies for each cooling channel. The effect of passage orientation on the heat transfer and pressure loss is investigated by comparing to a planar channel design with a similar geometry. Following the blade cross-section, the first pass of the serpentine channel is angled at 50° from the direction of rotation while the second pass has an orientation angle of 105°. The coolant flows radially outward in the first passage with an aspect ratio (AR) = 4:1. After a 180-degree tip turn, the coolant travels radially inward into the second passage with AR = 2:1. The copper plate method is applied to obtain the regionally-averaged heat transfer coefficients on all the interior walls of the cooling channel. In addition to the smooth surface case, 45° angled ribs with a profiled cross section are also placed on the leading and trailing surfaces in both the passages. The ribs are placed such that P/e = 10 and e/H = 0.16. The Reynolds number varies from 10,000 to 45,000 in the first passage and 16,000 to 73,000 in the second passage. The rotational speed ranges from 0 to 400 rpm, which corresponds to maximum rotation numbers of 0.38 and 0.15 in the first and second passes, respectively. The blade-shaped feature affects the heat transfer and pressure loss in the cooling channels. In the second passage, the heat transfer on the outer wall and trailing surface is higher than the inner wall and leading surface due to flow impingement and the swirling motion induced by the blade-shaped tip turn. The rotational effect on the heat transfer and pressure loss is lower in the blade-shaped design than the planar design due to the feature of angled rotation. The tip wall heat transfer is significantly enhanced by rotation in this study. The overall heat transfer and pressure loss in this study is higher than the planar geometry due to the blade-shaped feature. The heat transfer and pressure loss characteristics from this study provide important information for the gas turbine blade internal cooling designs.","PeriodicalId":385341,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5B: Heat Transfer — General Interest; Internal Air Systems; Internal Cooling","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134203357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing Qi, Zhu Fahui, L. Zhufeng, Yonghui Xie, Di Zhang
{"title":"Rotating Cooling Performance of Two-Pass Rectangular Channels With Cross Bridge and Oval-Shaped Dimple","authors":"Jing Qi, Zhu Fahui, L. Zhufeng, Yonghui Xie, Di Zhang","doi":"10.1115/gt2021-60182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-60182","url":null,"abstract":"In order to adapt to the high-efficiency and low-resistance performances required by the new generation of gas turbine, a new type of two-pass rectangular channel with cross bridge and oval-shaped dimple structure is proposed for internal cooling of blade mid chord region. Firstly, the flow structure, heat transfer and friction characteristics of the novel channels under stationary and rotating conditions are numerically analyzed and compared in detail. Then the effects of cross bridge type/layout and dimple dimension/arrangement on the cooling performance are discussed. And the coupling mechanism of cross bridge, turning bend, oval-shaped dimple and rotation effect is revealed. The results show that the introduction of the cross bridge enables the coolant flow into the second pass in a distributed manner, which weakens the flow aggregation and extrusion in the tip turning bend region, thus the flow structure is optimized. Although the heat transfer is slightly weakened, the friction factor is reduced by 66.3% and 51.4%, and the overall thermal performance is improved by 16.7% and 11.6% (different cases) at most, for stationary and rotating conditions, respectively. The oval-shaped dimple achieves local heat transfer enhancement by controlling flow separation and reattachment. Furthermore, the optimized cross bridge type/layout and dimple dimension/arrangement are also obtained. This research will provide important reference data for the development of high-efficiency mid chord cooling technology for gas turbine blade.","PeriodicalId":385341,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5B: Heat Transfer — General Interest; Internal Air Systems; Internal Cooling","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115710814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Straub, S. Ramesh, M. Searle, A. Roy, James B. Black
{"title":"Baseline Airfoil Cooling Designs for a 5-10 MW Combined Heat and Power Turbine Application","authors":"D. Straub, S. Ramesh, M. Searle, A. Roy, James B. Black","doi":"10.1115/gt2021-59114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-59114","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Industrial gas turbines are commonly used in steam combined heat and power (CHP) applications. Combined heat and power applications have significant environmental and economic benefits that are consistent with the goals of the U.S. Department of Energy. One area that is currently being studied includes the potential benefits of CHP turbine operation at higher turbine inlet temperatures. Although these benefits will be described briefly in this paper, the primary focus will address a means to achieve these performance benefits through improvements in airfoil cooling. Specifically, internal cooling concepts enabled by additive and hybrid manufacturing are of primary interest. This paper will describe the conventional cooling technologies that have been identified after a thorough review of public literature as a baseline for more detailed analysis and future testing. This effort is unique because the cooling features (i.e., leading edge, mid-chord, and trailing edge) are integrated together within an airfoil of realistic scale. The engineering models that have been developed to characterize the cooling performance for these baseline configurations will be described. It is believed that the cooling designs described in this paper are representative of gas turbines in the 5–10 MWe size range, but not identical to any commercial product. The present effort to establish a state-of-the-art cooling scheme is a first, and necessary, step in an on-going project to identify and test more advanced cooling concepts for CHP systems that are enabled by additive manufacturing.","PeriodicalId":385341,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5B: Heat Transfer — General Interest; Internal Air Systems; Internal Cooling","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128853596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. W. Jackson, Hui Tang, James A. Scobie, J. Owen, G. Lock
{"title":"Measurement of Heat Transfer and Flow Structures in a Closed Rotating Cavity","authors":"R. W. Jackson, Hui Tang, James A. Scobie, J. Owen, G. Lock","doi":"10.1115/gt2021-59605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-59605","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Buoyancy-induced flow occurs inside the rotating compressor cavities of gas turbines. These cavities are usually open at the inner radius, but in some industrial gas turbines, they are effectively closed. This paper presents measurements of the disc heat transfer and rotating flow structures in a closed cavity over a wide range of engine relevant conditions. These experimentally derived distributions of disc temperature and heat flux are the first of their kind to be published. The radial distribution of the non-dimensional disc temperature virtually collapsed onto a single curve over the full experimental range. There was a small, monotonic departure from this common curve with increasing Reynolds number; this was attributed to compressibility effects where the core temperature increases as the rotational speed increases. These results imply that, if compressibility effects are negligible, all rotating closed cavities should have a disc temperature distribution uniquely related to the geometry and disc material; this is of important practical use to the engine designer. Unsteady pressure sensors detected either three or four vortex pairs across the experimental range. The number of pairs changed with Grashof number, and the structures slipped relative to the rotating discs by less than 1% of the disc speed.","PeriodicalId":385341,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5B: Heat Transfer — General Interest; Internal Air Systems; Internal Cooling","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131609734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}