Numerical simulations of a three-dimensional model of impingement and film cooling on a flat plate are presented and validated with the available experimental data. Four different turbulence models were utilized for simulation, in which SST  had the highest precision, resulting in less than 4% maximum error in temperature estimation. A simplified geometry with periodic boundary conditions is de...

An experimental investigation was conducted to study the effects of blowing ratio and the existence of lands on the film cooling effectiveness of a turbine blade trailing-edge model. Instead of using a temperature-based technique, a mass transfer analogywas used to quantify the film cooling effectiveness. This was done through themeasurement of the distribution of oxygen concentration over the ...

A comparative numerical study is employed to investigate the heat and mass transfer between air and falling film desiccant in parallel and counter flow configurations. Nanoparticles suspensions are added to the falling film desiccant to study heat and mass transfer enhancements. The numerical results show that the parallel flow channel provides better dehumidification and cooling processes of t...

Keywords: Film cooling of turbine blades Cooling effectiveness quantification Effects of coolant-to-mainstream density ratio PIV measurements PSP technique Mass transfer analog a b s t r a c t An experimental study was conducted to investigate the performance of film cooling injection from a row of circular holes spaced laterally across a flat test plate. While a high-resolution Particle Image ...

Thin film coolers can provide large cooling power densities compared to bulk thermoelectrics due to the close spacing of hot and cold junctions. Important parameters in the design of such coolers are investigated theoretically and experimentally. A three-dimensional ~3D! finite element simulator ~ANSYS! is used to model self-consistently thermal and electrical properties of a complete device st...

The impact of shock waves on supersonic cooling films is studied using large-eddy simulations (LES). A laminar cooling film is injected through a slot at a Mach number Mai = 1.8 into a fully turbulent boundary layer at a freestream Mach number Ma∞ = 2.44. The cooling film is disturbed by oblique shock waves at deflection angles of 5° and 8° at two downstream positions of the slot. At shock impi...

A Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer (PDPA) system is employed to measure the two-phase mist flow behavior including flow velocity field, droplet size distribution, droplet dynamics, and turbulence characteristics. Based on the droplet measurements made through PDPA, a projected profile describing how the air-mist coolant jet flow spreads and eventually blends into the hot main flow is proposed. T...