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Comparisons of Pins/Dimples/Protrusions Cooling Concepts for a Turbine Blade Tip-Wall at High Reynolds Numbers

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Summary, in English

The blade tip region encounters high thermal loads because of the hot gas leakage flows, and it must therefore be cooled to ensure a long durability and safe operation. A common way to cool a blade tip is to design serpentine passages with a 180 deg turns under the blade tip-cap inside the turbine blade. Improved internal convective cooling is therefore required to increase blade tip lifetime. Pins, dimples, and protrusions are well recognized as effective devices to augment heat transfer in various applications. In this paper, enhanced heat transfer of an internal blade tip-wall has been predicted numerically. The computational models consist of a two-pass channel with 180 deg turn and arrays of circular pins, hemispherical dimples, or protrusions internally mounted on the tip-wall. Inlet Reynolds numbers are ranging from 100,000 to 600,000. The overall performance of the two-pass channels is evaluated. Numerical results show that the heat transfer enhancement of the pinned-tip is up to a factor of 3.0 higher than that of a smooth tip while the dimpled-tip and protruded-tip provide about 2.0 times higher heat transfer. These augmentations are achieved at the cost of an increase of pressure drop by less than 10%. By comparing the present cooling concepts with pins, dimples, and protrusions, it is shown that the pinned-tip exhibits best performance to improve the blade tip cooling. However, when disregarding the added active area and considering the added mechanical stress, it is suggested that the usage of dimples is more suitable to enhance blade tip cooling, especially at low Reynolds numbers. [DOI: 10.1115/1.4003558]

Department/s

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of Heat Transfer-Transactions of The Asme

Volume

133

Issue

6

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Topic

  • Energy Engineering

Keywords

  • heat transfer enhancement
  • blade tip-wall
  • pins
  • dimples
  • protrusions
  • numerical simulation

Conference name

2nd International Conference on Thermal Issues in Emerging Technologies

Conference date

2008-12-17 - 2008-12-20

Conference place

Cairo, Egypt

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0022-1481