Abstract
In the present work we experimentally examined the effect of enhanced freestream turbulence on the film-cooling efficiency in an axisymmetric supersonic nozzle. A considerable reduction in the film-cooling efficiency was observed with increasing level of flow turbulence, both in the subsonic and supersonic parts of the Laval nozzle. For instance, an increase in the freestream turbulence number from 0.2% to 15% resulted in more than twofold deterioration of film-cooling efficiency. A similar decrease of film-cooling efficiency was also observed under off-design flow conditions. At the same time, the increase in the freestream turbulence number had almost no effect on the recovery factor and on the distribution of static pressure over the length of the nozzle. The Kutateladze-Leont'ev asymptotic theory of gas cooling films was used to generalize the experimental data for nozzle flows with allowance for flow nonisothermality, compressibility, longitudinal pressure gradient, and high freestream turbulence number.
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