Abstract
This paper presents the numerical investigations of the flow and heat transfer of two configurations of a transonic turbine guide vane. The basic configuration is a vane with convection cooling. The second configuration is additionally coated with a thermal barrier consisting of ZrO2. The results are obtained with a conjugate heat transfer and flow computer code that has been developed at the Institute of Steam and Gas Turbines. Measurement data is available for the basic configuration and the computational results are compared to the experimental results. The results show very good agreement between calculated and measured vane surface temperatures. The trailing edge turns out to be subjected to high thermal loads as it is too thin to be cooled effectively. Secondary flow phenomena like the passage vortex and the corner vortex and their impact on the temperature distribution are discussed. The ZrO2 coating is calculated for a thickness of 300μm. The substrate material temperatures are lowered by about 20 K–29 K in the stagnation point area and by about 27 K–43 K in the shock area on the suction side. At the trailing edge, the coating on the suction side and on the pressure side hardly influences the metal temperature.
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