Numerical Investigation on Radiation Effect in Transpiration Cooling

Abstract

This paper proposed a numerical strategy which could achieve the coupled modeling and solving of transpiration cooling with external high-temperature gas flow and especially take the radiation effect into account. Based on the numerical strategy, the heat and mass transfer characteristics of the transpiration cooling in a high-temperature gas channel were studied, and the radiation effect and corresponding influence factors were analyzed. The results indicated that the radiative heat flux takes an important role in the heat transfer between the transpiration cooling and external high-temperature gas flow which may reach 40% under the operating condition considered in this work, and the radiation absorption from the coolant is more obvious near the downstream wall. As the wall emissivity increases, the radiation heat transfer in the downstream area of the porous wall is enhanced significantly and thereby the wall temperature there increases, as the result, the uniformity of the temperature distribution on the whole porous wall is improved to some extent.