Conjugate heat transfer and film cooling of a multi-stage cooling scheme

Mohamed Ghorab, Sung In Kim, Ibrahim Hassan

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Abstract

Cooling techniques play a key role in improving efficiency and power output of modern gas turbines. The conjugate technique of film and impingement cooling schemes is considered in this study. The Multi-Stage Cooling Scheme (MSCS) involves coolant passing from inside to outside turbine blade through two stages. The first stage; the coolant passes through first hole to internal gap where the impinging jet cools the external layer of the blade. Finally, the coolant passes through the internal gap to the second hole which has specific designed geometry for external film cooling. The effect of design parameters, such as, offset distance between two-stage holes, gap height, and inclination angle of the first hole, on upstream conjugate heat transfer rate and downstream film cooling effectiveness performance are investigated computationally. An Inconel 617 alloy with variable properties is selected for the solid material. The conjugate heat transfer and film cooling characteristics of MSCS are analyzed across blowing ratios of Br = 1 and 2 for density ratio, 2. This study presents upstream wall temperature distributions due to conjugate heat transfer for different gap design parameters. The maximum film cooling effectiveness with upstream conjugate heat transfer is less than adiabatic film cooling effectiveness by 24–34%. However, the full coverage of cooling effectiveness in spanwise direction can be obtained using internal cooling with conjugate heat transfer, whereas adiabatic film cooling effectiveness has narrow distribution.
Original languageEnglish
Pages1249-1257
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
EventASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition - Boston, United States
Duration: 31 Oct 200806 Nov 2008

Conference

ConferenceASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period31/10/200806/11/2008

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