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Experimental study of unsteady wake effect on a film-cooled pitchwise-curved surface

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Title Experimental study of unsteady wake effect on a film-cooled pitchwise-curved surface
 
Creator Mahadevan, Srikrishna
Kutlu, BF
Golsen, MJ
Verma, SB
 
Subject Aeronautics (General)
Aerodynamics
 
Description Unsteady wake interactions with the near wall flow field occur when a surface is exposed to fluid flow past upstream rotating bodies. In the case of gas turbines, understanding such interactions are essential to better design cooling schemes on endwalls. In view of this, an experimental study has been conducted to determine the heat transfer coefficient and film cooling effectiveness on a pitchwise-curved surface which is subjected to unsteady passing wakes generated using a wake rod in a wall-normal orientation. The mainstream Mach number was maintained approximately constant at 0.03. A single row of cylindrical film holes with pitch to diameter ratio of 3 and inclined at 35� to the test surface are used for discrete film injection. The coolant to mainstream mass flux ratio (M) is varied between 0.25 and 1. A spoke-wheel type wake generator is used to produce unsteady wakes at two wake Strouhal numbers (S = 0.15, 0.3). Measurements are made for (i) steady mainstream flow (S = 0) which serves as a baseline case, (ii) mainstream flow with unsteady wakes, (iii) steady mainstream flow with film injection (iv) both (ii) and (iii) combined. The unsteady passing wakes mitigated jet lift-off at high coolant to mainstream momentum flux ratios. The maximum increase in film effectiveness was measured to be ffi16.35% at the jet centerline for M = 0.75, S = 0.3 at x/D = 2. At high coolant to mainstream mass flux ratios, a combination of increasing film jet turbulence and strong interaction with the mainstream, deteriorates film cooling effectiveness but increases the heat transfer coefficient. Heat transfer augmentation increased by ffi7.6% for the highest wake passing frequency (S = 0.3) without film injection. A combination of unsteady passing wakes and film injection resulted in a maximum pitch-averaged and centerline heat transfer augmentation of ffi28% and 31.7% respectively.
 
Publisher Elsevier Science
 
Date 2015
 
Type Journal Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/12252/1/ja556post.pdf
Mahadevan, Srikrishna and Kutlu, BF and Golsen, MJ and Verma, SB (2015) Experimental study of unsteady wake effect on a film-cooled pitchwise-curved surface. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 83 . pp. 118-135. ISSN 0017-9310
 
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.11.042
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