Computational predictions of heat transfer and film-cooling for a turbine blade with nonaxisymmetric endwall contouring

Stephen P. Lynch, Karen A. Thole, Atul Kohli, Christopher Lehane

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Abstract

Three-dimensional contouring of the compressor and turbine endwalls in a gas turbine engine has been shown to be an effective method of reducing aerodynamic losses by mitigating the strength of the complex vortical structures generated at the endwall. Reductions in endwall heat transfer in the turbine have been also previously measured and reported in literature. In this study, computational fluid dynamics simulations of a turbine blade with and without nonaxisymmetric endwall contouring were compared to experimental measurements of the exit flowfield, endwall heat transfer, and endwall film-cooling. Secondary kinetic energy at the cascade exit was closely predicted with a simulation using the SST k-ω turbulence model. Endwall heat transfer was overpredicted in the passage for both the SST k-ω and realizable k-ε turbulence models, but heat transfer augmentation for a nonaxisymmetric contour relative to a flat endwall showed fair agreement to the experiment. Measured and predicted film-cooling results indicated that the nonaxisymmetric contouring limits the spread of film-cooling flow over the endwall depending on the interaction of the film with the contour geometry.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number041003
JournalJournal of Turbomachinery
Volume133
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 19 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Mechanical Engineering

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