Investigation of heat transfer for cooling turbine disks with a non-Newtonian fluid flow using DRA

Abstract

A non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluid flow passes through the porous wall of an axisymmetric channel on a turbine disc for cooling application. The present article solves the couple equations (momentum and heat transfer) of a non-Newtonian fluid flow in an axisymmetric channel with a porous wall for turbine cooling applications by using the Duan–Rach Approach (DRA). The precious achievement of the present work is introducing a new and efficient approximate analytical technique that this method allows us to find a solution without using numerical methods to evaluate the undetermined coefficients. The approximate analytical investigation is carried out for different values of the embedding parameters namely: Reynolds number, Prandtl number, injection Reynolds number and power law index. The DRA results indicate that Nusselt number has direct relationship with Reynolds number, Prandtl number and power law index. Also the results were compared with numerical solution in order to verify the accuracy of the proposed method. It is seen that the current results in comparison with the numerical ones are in excellent agreement.