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Effect of coolant entry orientation on flow and heat transfer in the trailing region channels of a gas turbine vane
Published in
2008
Volume: 4
   
Issue: PART A
Pages: 849 - 863
Abstract
The present work is concerned with the computational analysis of flow and heat transfer from the circular pin fin channels in the trailing edge region of a gas turbine vane. Combined effects of channel shape, conjugate boundary condition and flow orientation are studied. Four different channel shapes: Straight Rectangular, Straight Converged, Cambered Rectangular and Cambered Converged are considered. Both straight and lateral coolant entry are investigated at a nominal Reynolds number of 20,000. Numerical simulations are performed for the steady, incompressible, turbulent flow with the help of a computational fluid dynamics code. A structured hexahedral mesh having about 5 million cells is generated in the domain. The computational methodology is validated against the data from a standard ERCOFTAC bench mark test case. Flow and heat transfer characteristics at various locations in the channel and the axial temperature variation for a chosen pin are reported.
About the journal
JournalProceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo
Open AccessNo
Concepts (25)
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    AXIAL TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS
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    BENCH MARKS
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    CHANNEL SHAPE
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    Combined effect
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    Computational analysis
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    Computational fluid dynamics codes
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    COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGY
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    Flow and heat transfer
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    FLOW ORIENTATIONS
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    GAS TURBINE VANES
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    HEXAHEDRAL MESH
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    Numerical simulation
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    On flow
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    Pin-fins
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    Test case
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    Trailing edges
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    COAL FUELED GAS TURBINES
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    Computational fluid dynamics
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    Computer simulation
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    Coolants
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    Heat exchangers
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    Heat transfer
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    Reynolds number
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    Turbines
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    Gas turbines