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 180° turn 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° turn and arrays of circular pins or 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 exhibit 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.
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2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference
August 8–13, 2010
Washington, DC, USA
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Comparisons of Pins/Dimples/Protrusions Cooling Concepts for a Turbine Blade Tip-Wall at High Reynolds Numbers
Gongnan Xie,
Gongnan Xie
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China; Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Bengt Sunde´n,
Bengt Sunde´n
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Weihong Zhang
Weihong Zhang
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
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Gongnan Xie
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China; Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Bengt Sunde´n
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Weihong Zhang
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
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IHTC14-22284, pp. 143-152; 10 pages
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March 1, 2011
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Xie, G, Sunde´n, B, & Zhang, W. "Comparisons of Pins/Dimples/Protrusions Cooling Concepts for a Turbine Blade Tip-Wall at High Reynolds Numbers." Proceedings of the 2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference. 2010 14th International Heat Transfer Conference, Volume 5. Washington, DC, USA. August 8–13, 2010. pp. 143-152. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IHTC14-22284
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