Heat transfer in an impingement cooling channel under isothermal boundaries at high rotation numbers

Abstract

The jet impingement cooling technology is usually applied in the turbine blade leading edge which suffers the highest heat flux and needs priority protection. Therefore, heat transfer performances in a rotating impingement cooling channel under an isothermal boundary are experimentally studied. Both the jet-to-target surface spacing and the jet-to-jet spacing are 3 times the jet hole diameter. The effects of Coriolis force and buoyancy force on heat transfer are focused. And the maximum rotation number and buoyancy number reaches 1.63 and 8.06, respectively. The Reynolds number varies from 7119 to 21,358. Besides, numerical simulations are conducted to predict the flow field. The results show that the heat transfer in the impingement channel is determined by the radial mass-flowrate distribution of supply channel in both static and rotating states. Moreover, the rotation enhances the heat transfer at both ends but decreases the heat transfer in the middle-radius due to the stagnant zone induced by Coriolis force in the supply channel, resulting in large thermal stress on the target surface. However, the heat transfer is insensitive to the rotational effects when the rotation number exceeds 0.42. There is a critical rotation number for each location, before which the effect of buoyancy force could be neglected. Once the rotation number is greater than this value, the effect of buoyancy force increases with the wall-to-fluid temperature ratio.