The experimental investigation of film-cooling flow structure provides reliable data for calibrating and validating a 3D feature based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model being developed synchronously at the ETH Zurich. This paper reports on the flow structure of a film-cooling jet emanating from one hole in a row of holes angled 20 deg to the surface of a flat plate having a 45 deg lateral angle to the freestream flow in a steady flow, flat plate wind tunnel. This facility simulates a film-cooling row typically found on a turbine blade, giving engine representative nondimensionals in terms of geometry and operating conditions. The main flow is heated and the injected coolant is cooled strongly to obtain the requisite density ratio. All three velocity components were measured using a nonintrusive stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV) system. The blowing ratio and density ratio are varied for a single compound angled geometry, and the complex three dimensional flow is investigated with special regard to vortical structure.
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July 2008
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Experimental Flow Structure Investigation of Compound Angled Film Cooling
Vipluv Aga,
Vipluv Aga
Institute for Energy Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich
, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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Martin Rose,
Martin Rose
Institute for Energy Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich
, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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Reza S. Abhari
Reza S. Abhari
Institute for Energy Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
e-mail: rabhari@ethz.ch
ETH Zurich
, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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Vipluv Aga
Institute for Energy Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich
, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
Martin Rose
Institute for Energy Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich
, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
Reza S. Abhari
Institute for Energy Technologies, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich
, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerlande-mail: rabhari@ethz.ch
J. Turbomach. Jul 2008, 130(3): 031005 (8 pages)
Published Online: May 2, 2008
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Received:
July 27, 2006
Revised:
April 3, 2007
Published:
May 2, 2008
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Aga, V., Rose, M., and Abhari, R. S. (May 2, 2008). "Experimental Flow Structure Investigation of Compound Angled Film Cooling." ASME. J. Turbomach. July 2008; 130(3): 031005. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2775491
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