Abstract
Flow visualization experiments had been conducted using a water tunnel to investigate and study the effect of different hole geometries on lift-off and spreading characteristics on a jet in a cross flow stream. The relationships between the hydraulic diameters of the hole geometries and their lift-off and spreading characteristics were also investigated. Eight different hole geometries with the same cross-sectional area were used in the experiments. They are round, square, triangle, rectangular, "rect-circle", "peanut", "V-shaped" and "W-shaped". Dye release injection technique was used to visualize the characteristics of the jet trajectories from different hole geometries. From the results, the different geometries of cooling holes were found to have an effect on the trajectory of the jet. Hole geometries with "tongues" in them such as "W-shaped" and "V-shaped" holes produced jets with better flow adherence but poorer spreading. Hole geometries with lower hydraulic diameters also produced jets with better flow adherence but poorer spreading.
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