TY - GEN
T1 - EVALUATION OF ADJOINT OPTIMIZED HOLES - PART I BASELINE PERFORMANCE
AU - Gutierrez, Daniel
AU - Yoon, Christopher
AU - Furgeson, Michael T.
AU - Veley, Emma M.
AU - Bogard, David G.
AU - Thole, Karen A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the U.S. Department of Energy - National Energy Technology Laboratory for sponsoring research presented in this paper. This paper is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy under Award Number DE-FE0031760. This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, prod- uct, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trade-mark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - With the advent of the use of additive manufacturing to build gas turbine components, the design space for new hole geometries is essentially unlimited. Recently, a computational adjoint based optimization method was used to design shaped film cooling holes fed by internal co-flow and cross-flow channels. The associated RANS computations predicted that the holes optimized for use with cross-flow (X-AOpt) and co-flow (Co-AOpt) would significantly increase adiabatic effectiveness. However, only the X-AOpt hole was tested experimentally in this previous study. Though the experimentally measured performance for this hole was much less than computationally predicted, it still had a 75% improved performance compared to the conventional 7-7-7 shaped hole. In the current study, the X-AOpt and Co-AOpt shaped holes were experimentally evaluated using measurements of adiabatic effectiveness and overall cooling effectiveness. Coolant was fed to the holes with an internal co-flow channel. For reference, experiments were also conducted with the baseline 7-7-7 shaped hole, and a 15-15-1 shaped hole (shown in a previous study to be the optimum expansion angles for a shaped hole). Furthermore, overall cooling effectiveness measurements were made with engine scale models to evaluate the performance of additively manufactured (AM) X-AOpt and Co-AOpt holes with a realistic metal build. Results from this study confirmed that the X-AOpt hole had a 75% increase in adiabatic effectiveness compared to the 7-7-7 shaped hole. However, the Co-AOpt hole had only a 30% increase in adiabatic effectiveness, substantially less than had been computationally predicted. Measurements of overall cooling effectiveness for the engine-scale models and the large-scale models followed similar trends.
AB - With the advent of the use of additive manufacturing to build gas turbine components, the design space for new hole geometries is essentially unlimited. Recently, a computational adjoint based optimization method was used to design shaped film cooling holes fed by internal co-flow and cross-flow channels. The associated RANS computations predicted that the holes optimized for use with cross-flow (X-AOpt) and co-flow (Co-AOpt) would significantly increase adiabatic effectiveness. However, only the X-AOpt hole was tested experimentally in this previous study. Though the experimentally measured performance for this hole was much less than computationally predicted, it still had a 75% improved performance compared to the conventional 7-7-7 shaped hole. In the current study, the X-AOpt and Co-AOpt shaped holes were experimentally evaluated using measurements of adiabatic effectiveness and overall cooling effectiveness. Coolant was fed to the holes with an internal co-flow channel. For reference, experiments were also conducted with the baseline 7-7-7 shaped hole, and a 15-15-1 shaped hole (shown in a previous study to be the optimum expansion angles for a shaped hole). Furthermore, overall cooling effectiveness measurements were made with engine scale models to evaluate the performance of additively manufactured (AM) X-AOpt and Co-AOpt holes with a realistic metal build. Results from this study confirmed that the X-AOpt hole had a 75% increase in adiabatic effectiveness compared to the 7-7-7 shaped hole. However, the Co-AOpt hole had only a 30% increase in adiabatic effectiveness, substantially less than had been computationally predicted. Measurements of overall cooling effectiveness for the engine-scale models and the large-scale models followed similar trends.
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U2 - 10.1115/GT2022-83436
DO - 10.1115/GT2022-83436
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85141514211
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo
BT - Heat Transfer - Combustors; Film Cooling
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME Turbo Expo 2022: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, GT 2022
Y2 - 13 June 2022 through 17 June 2022
ER -