This paper summarizes the work of a five year research program into the heat transfer within cavities adjacent to the main annulus of a gas turbine. The work has been a collaboration between several gas turbine manufacturers, also involving a number of universities working together. The principal objective of the study has been to develop and validate computer modeling methods of the cooling flow distribution and heat transfer management, in the environs of multistage turbine disk rims and blade fixings, with a view to maintaining component and subsystem integrity, while achieving optimum engine performance and minimizing emissions. A fully coupled analysis capability has been developed using combinations of commercially available and in-house computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element (FE) thermomechanical modeling codes. The main objective of the methodology is to help decide on optimum cooling configurations for disk temperature, stress, and life considerations. The new capability also gives us an effective means of validating the method by direct use of disk temperature measurements, where otherwise, additional and difficult to obtain parameters, such as reliable heat flux measurements, would be considered necessary for validation of the use of CFD for convective heat transfer. A two-stage turbine test rig has been developed and improved to provide good quality thermal boundary condition data with which to validate the analysis methods. A cooling flow optimization study has also been performed to support a redesign of the turbine stator well cavity to maximize the effectiveness of cooling air supplied to the disk rim region. The benefits of this design change have also been demonstrated on the rig. A brief description of the test rig facility will be provided together with some insights into the successful completion of the test program. Comparisons will be provided of disk rim cooling performance for a range of cooling flows and geometry configurations. The new elements of this work are the presentation of additional test data and validation of the automatically coupled analysis method applied to a partially cooled stator well cavity (i.e., including some local gas ingestion) and also the extension of the cavity cooling design optimization study to other new geometries.
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February 2014
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Main Annulus Gas Path Interactions—Turbine Stator Well Heat Transfer
Antonio Guijarro Valencia,
Antonio Guijarro Valencia
Rolls-Royce plc,
Alstom Building D-9001
Derby, UK
Alstom Building D-9001
Derby, UK
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Daniel Coren,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Imperial College London,
Daniel Coren
Visiting Research Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Imperial College London,
London SW7 2AZ
, UK
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Christopher Long
University of Sussex,
Christopher Long
TFMRC
,University of Sussex,
Brighton BN1 9QT
, UK
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Antonio Guijarro Valencia
Rolls-Royce plc,
Alstom Building D-9001
Derby, UK
Alstom Building D-9001
Derby, UK
Daniel Coren
Visiting Research Fellow
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Imperial College London,
London SW7 2AZ
, UK
Christopher Long
TFMRC
,University of Sussex,
Brighton BN1 9QT
, UK
Contributed by the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) of ASME for publication in the Journal of Turbomachinery. Manuscript received January 10, 2013; final manuscript received January 17, 2013; published online September 26, 2013. Editor: David Wisler.
J. Turbomach. Feb 2014, 136(2): 021010 (16 pages)
Published Online: September 26, 2013
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January 10, 2013
Revision Received:
January 17, 2013
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Dixon, J. A., Guijarro Valencia, A., Coren, D., Eastwood, D., and Long, C. (September 26, 2013). "Main Annulus Gas Path Interactions—Turbine Stator Well Heat Transfer." ASME. J. Turbomach. February 2014; 136(2): 021010. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4023622
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