Film cooling on a turbine guide vane: A numerical analysis with a multigrid technique

Abstract

The flow and heat transfer due to film cooling over a turbine nozzle guide vane, which was also cooled by internal convection, were numerically analysed under engine conditions. The time-dependent, two-dimensional, mass-averaged, Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations are solved in the physical plane based on the four-stage Runge-Kutta algorithm in the finite volume formulation. Local time stepping, variable coefficient implicit residual smoothing and a full multigrid technique have been implemented to accelerate the steady state calculations. Turbulence was simulated by the algebraic Baldwin-Lomax (B-L) model. The computed heat transfer distributions with film cooling in conjunction was successful in describing the coolant behavior over the curved suction and pressure surfaces of a turbine blade for varying blowing and temperature ratios.