Effect of Blade Tip Clearance on Turbine Shroud Heat/Mass Transfer

Author(s):  
Dong Ho Rhee ◽  
Jong Hyun Choi ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

This study investigates the local heat/mass transfer characteristics on the stationary shroud with blade tip clearances for flat tip geometry. A large scale linear cascade is used and the relative motion between the blade and shroud is neglected in this study. A naphthalene sublimation method is employed to determine the detailed local heat/mass transfer coefficients on the shroud surface. The geometry of blade tip used in this study is flat and the tip clearance varies from 0.66% to 2.85% of the blade chord length. The flow enters the gap between the blade tip and shroud at the pressure side due to the pressure difference. Therefore, the heat/mass transfer characteristics on the shroud are changed significantly from those for no tip clearance. High heat/mass transfer region is observed along the pressure side of blade due to the entrance effect and the acceleration of the tip gap flow. Complex heat transfer patterns on the shroud are observed in the region where the blade tip and shroud are overlapped due to the flow separation and reattachment. Then, the heat/mass transfer coefficients on the shroud increase along the suction side of blade because tip leakage vortices are generated with interacting the main flow. The experimental results show that the heat/mass transfer characteristics are changed significantly with the gap distance between the tip of turbine blade and the shroud. However, the turbulence intensity of incoming flow has little influence on the heat/mass transfer coefficients on the shroud with tip clearance.

Author(s):  
Sung Kook Hong ◽  
Dong-Ho Rhee ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

The present paper has investigated the effects of fin on the flow and heat/mass transfer characteristics for the impingement/effusion cooling with crossflow. The fins of circular or rectangular shape are installed between two perforated plates and the crossflow passes between these two plates. The blowing ratio is changed from 0.5 to 1.5 for a fixed jet Reynolds number of 10,000. A naphthalene sublimation method is used to obtain the local heat/mass transfer coefficients on the effusion plate. A numerical calculation is also performed to investigate the flow characteristics. Flow and heat/mass transfer characteristics are changed significantly due to installation of fins. In the injection region, wall jet spreads more widely than the case without fins because fin prevents the wall jet from being swept away by the crossflow. In the effusion region, higher heat/mass transfer coefficient is obtained due to the flow disturbance and acceleration by the fin. As the blowing ratio increases, the effects of fin against the crossflow become more significant and then the higher average heat/mass transfer coefficients are obtained. Especially, the cases with rectangular fins have about 40%∼45% enhancement at the high blowing ratio of M = 1.5. However, the increase of blockage effect gives more pressure loss in the channel.


1988 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Chandra ◽  
J. C. Han ◽  
S. C. Lau

The heat transfer characteristics of turbulent air flow in a two-pass channel were studied via the naphthalene sublimation technique. The test section, which consisted of two straight, square channels joined by a sharp 180 deg turn, resembled the internal cooling passages of gas turbine airfoils. The top and bottom surfaces of the test channel were roughened by rib turbulators. The rib height-to-hydraulic diameter ratio (e/D) was 0.063 and the rib pitch-to-height ratio (P/e) was 10. The local heat/mass transfer coefficients on the roughened top wall, and on the smooth divider and side walls of the test channel, were determined for three Reynolds numbers of 15,000, 30,000, and 60,000, and for three angles of attack (α) of 90, 60, and 45 deg. The results showed that the local Sherwood numbers on the ribbed walls were 1.5 to 6.5 times those for a fully developed flow in a smooth square duct. The average ribbed-wall Sherwood numbers were 2.5 to 3.5 times higher than the fully developed values, depending on the rib angle-of-attack and the Reynolds number. The results also indicated that, before the turn, the heat/mass transfer coefficients in the cases of α = 60 and 45 deg were higher than those in the case of α = 90 deg. However, after the turn, the heat/mass transfer coefficients in the oblique-rib cases were lower than those in the traverse-rib case. Correlations for the average Sherwood number ratios for individual channel surfaces and for the overall Sherwood number ratios are reported.


Author(s):  
In Taek Oh ◽  
Kyung Min Kim ◽  
Dong Hyun Lee ◽  
Jun Su Park ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

The present investigation provides detailed local heat/mass transfer distribution and pressure drop characteristics in a matrix cooling channel under rotating conditions. The matrix channel has cooling sub-passages with crossing angle of 45 degrees. Detailed heat/mass transfer coefficients are measured using the naphthalene sublimation method. The pressure drops are also measured. The experiments were conducted under various Reynolds numbers (10,000 to 44,000) and rotation numbers (0.0 to 0.8). For the stationary case, the heat transfer characteristics are dominated by turning, impinging and swirling flow which are induced by the matrix channel geometry. Averaged heat/mass transfer coefficients on the leading and trailing surfaces in the stationary channel are approximately 2.1 times higher than those in a smooth channel. For the rotating cases, the effect of rotation on heat/mass transfer characteristics shows different tendency compared to typical rotating channels with radially outward flow. As the rotation number increases, the Sherwood number ratios increase on the leading surface, but changed slightly on the trailing surface. The thermal performance factors increases with increasing rotation numbers due to increased Sherwood number ratios and decreased friction factor ratios.


Author(s):  
Sang Dong Hwang ◽  
Han Ho Kim ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho ◽  
Seung Bae Chen

The present study investigates the effects of duct corrugation angle and flow velocity on the convective heat/mass transfer characteristics in wavy ducts applied in a primary surface heat exchanger. Local heat/mass transfer coefficients on the corrugated duct sidewall are determined using a naphthalene sublimation technique. The flow visualization technique is used to understand the overall flow structures inside the duct. The corrugation angles of the wavy ducts are 145° and 130°, and the duct aspect ratio is fixed at 7.3. The Reynolds numbers, based on the duct hydraulic diameter, vary from 1,000 to 5,000. The results show that secondary vortex flow cells, called Taylor-Go¨rtler vortices, exist periodically in the wavy duct. Therefore, non-uniform distributions of the heat/mass transfer coefficients are obtained on the duct walls. On the pressure-side wall, high heat/mass transfer cell-shaped regions appear due to the secondary vortex flows for both corrugation angles. On the suction-side wall, the heat transfer coefficients are lower than those on the pressure-side wall. The wavy duct with the corrugation angle of 130° has the stronger strength of the secondary vortex cells resulting in higher heat/mass transfer rates on the duct wall because the sharp turn enhances the development of the secondary flow cells.


Author(s):  
H. H. Cho ◽  
S. J. Wu ◽  
H. J. Kwon

The influence of the arrangement and the length of discrete ribs on heat/mass transfer and friction loss is investigated. The mass transfer experiments are conducted to obtain detailed local heat/mass transfer coefficients on the duct wall. The aspect ratio (width/height) of the duct is 2.04 and the rib height is one tenth of the duct height, such that the ratio of rib height to hydraulic diameter is 0.0743. The ratio of rib-to-rib distance to rib height is 10. The discrete ribs are made by dividing continuous ribs into 2, 3 and 5 pieces and attached periodically to the top and bottom surfaces of the duct with a parallel orientation. After examining the effects of rib angle of attack (α) for continuous ribs, the combined effects of the rib angle and the length of discrete ribs on heat/mass transfer on the duct wall are investigated for α = 90° and 45°. As the number of broken pieces of a rib increases, the more disturbed flows affect greatly heat/mass transfer and increase the uniformity of heat/mass transfer distributions. For α = 90°, the heat/mass transfer enhancement with the discrete ribs is remarkable, so that the discrete ribs augment up to 27% of the average heat/mass transfer coefficients compared with the transverse continuous rib. However, the heat/mass transfer performances of the discrete ribs are slightly higher than that of the transverse continuous rib due to the accompanied high friction loss penalty. For α = 45°, the average heat/mass transfer coefficients are decreased slightly with the discrete ribs, and the heat/mass transfer performances of the angled discrete ribs are also decreased even though the friction losses are lower.


Author(s):  
Minho Bang ◽  
Seok Min Choi ◽  
Ho-Seong Sohn ◽  
Jun Su Park ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

An experimental study has been conducted to investigate the heat-transfer characteristics of blade tips and shrouds with and without unsteady wakes. Depending on the presence of unsteady wakes, the local heat/mass-transfer coefficients of the tip and shroud were measured using the naphthalene sublimation method. Wakes from unsteady blades were modeled as wakes generated from moving cylindrical rod bundles. Test conditions were set to the Reynolds number of 100,000, based on an inlet velocity of 11.4 m/s and the axial chord length. The Strouhal number was varied from 0 to 0.22. For St = 0, high heat/mass-transfer coefficients appeared in regions where various flow patterns, such as flow reattachment, swirling flow, and vortexes, occurred. For St = 0.22, the heat/mass-transfer distributions of the tip and shroud were changed due to the unsteady wakes. Unsteady wakes made high turbulence intensity of leakage flow and flow patterns such as flow reattachment, swirling flow, and tip leakage vortex in the tip and shroud were changed and dispersed. There were also variations in the pitch-wise averaged Sherwood number of the blade tip and shroud on the presence of the unsteady wakes due to vortex shedding and dispersed flow patterns. Thus, considering the effects of unsteady wakes on the heat transfer of the blade tip and shroud, proper cooling designs for blade tips and shrouds should be investigated and adopted for effective cooling of gas turbine blades.


2011 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
In Taek Oh ◽  
Kyung Min Kim ◽  
Dong Hyun Lee ◽  
Jun Su Park ◽  
Hyung Hee Cho

The present investigation provides detailed local heat/mass transfer and pressure drop characteristics in a matrix cooling channel, under rotating conditions. The matrix channel had cooling subpassages with crossing angles of 45 deg. The detailed heat/mass transfer coefficients were measured via the naphthalene sublimation method, and pressure drops were also obtained. The experiments were conducted for various Reynolds numbers (10,500 to 44,000) and rotation numbers (0.0 to 0.8). In the stationary case, the heat transfer characteristics were dominated by turning, impinging, and swirling flow, induced by the matrix channel geometry. Average heat/mass transfer coefficients on the leading and trailing surfaces in the stationary channel were approximately 2.1 times greater than those in a smooth channel. In the rotating cases, the effect of rotation on heat/mass transfer characteristics differed from that of typical rotating channels with radially outward flow. As the rotation number increased, the Sherwood number ratios increased on the leading surfaces but changed only slightly on the trailing surfaces. The thermal performance factors increased with rotation number due to the increased Sherwood number ratios and decreased friction factor ratios.


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