Abstract
Abstract The relative casing motion can significantly influence the turbine blade tip aerothermal performance. In this study, experimental investigation was conducted in a newly developed high-speed disk rotor rig which can mimic engine realistic high-speed casing relative motion while enabling full optical access to a transonic turbine blade tip surface. Spatially-resolved tip heat transfer data, including heat transfer coefficient and film cooling effectiveness, were obtained for a cooled transonic squealer tip by infrared transient thermal measurement. Combined with closely coupled Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis, this paper reveals an interesting interaction mechanism between the cooling injections from the pressure side and the cavity floor with and without the effect of relative casing motion. Both experimental data and CFD results show a consistent trend in both heat transfer and cooling performance. With cavity cooling only, the cooling performance reduces with the effect of relative casing motion. However, with additional cooling injection from the pressure side, a significant improvement in the combined cooling performance with the relative casing motion can be observed. Such opposite trend highlights the importance of relative casing motion when ranking different tip cooling designs. With the consideration of relative casing motion, extra tip cooling benefit can be obtained by combining cooling injections from two different locations.
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