The design of an effective cooling system becomes more crucial in the development of high performance gas turbine engines. The turbine inlet temperature has been steadily increased to improve the thermal efficiency of turbine engines, but it resulted ...
The design of an effective cooling system becomes more crucial in the development of high performance gas turbine engines. The turbine inlet temperature has been steadily increased to improve the thermal efficiency of turbine engines, but it resulted in high heat loads on the turbine blades. To protect the blade materials from exceeding the maximum allowable temperature and being damaged, various cooling techniques are employed. The present study investigates the effects of various rib arrangements, rotation numbers and bleed ratios on the heat/mass transfer in the internal cooling passages of a gas turbine blade. The experiments and numerical calculation are conducted to investigate flow structure and heat transfer characteristics in the channel with bleed holes; the numerical computations are performed using a commercial code, FLUENT, to calculate the flow structures, The experiments are conducted to measure heat/mass transfer coefficients using a naphthalene sublimation technique.The rotating square channel has 40.0 mm hydraulic diameter which has the bleed holes on the leading and trailing surface of the channel and the aspect ratio (W/H) of 1.0. The hole diameter of bleed hole is 4.5 mm and its spacing (P/d=4.9) is about five times of hole diameter. Conditions of mass flow rate through bleed holes are 0%, 20%, and 40% of the main flow rate and rotation number is changed from 0.0 to 0.4.For the stationary case, on the leading surface in the 90° ribbed channel with bleed flow, the heat/mass transfer increased over the 20% because of tripping flow. However that on trailing surface reduced under the 7% due to the diminution of main flow. As the rotation number increased, the heat/mass transfer trend was same to that without bleed flow.For the rotating case, on the trailing surface in 90° ribbed channel with bleed flow, an increment rate of the heat/mass transfer appeared very small because effects of bleed flow were dominant than effects of rotation.As the rotation number increases, with bleed flow on the leading surface in 45° ribbed channel, the heat/mass transfer on the leading and the trailing surfaces was increasingly decreased because the turbulent intensity and the effects of impingement on downward flow region were weaken. With bleed flow on the trailing surface, the heat/mass transfer on the trailing surface is similar to each case by bleed ratio because the dominant factors was bleed flow than the rotation.As the bleed ratio increase at Ro = 0.0, the friction factors in 45° ribbed channel appeared lower about 8% than for 90° ribbed channel due to low blocking effect of main flow. Total averaged heat/mass transfer ratio on leading and trailing surfaces in 45°ribbed channel was similar to bleed ratio of 0.4 like that in 90° ribbed channel due to effects of lower impinging by downward flow although that in 45° ribbed channel at bleed ratio of 0.0 and 0.2 was high about 8% than that in 90° ribbed channel. As a result, the performance was similar at BR 0.4 in 90° and 45° ribbed channels.As rotation number increase, on the leading surface in 90° and 45° ribbed channel with bleed flow , the experimental and numerical results were similar trend.