Abstract

Gas turbine operates in high temperature environment, cooling technologies are applied for reducing the temperature of turbine blade, double wall cooling configuration is an effective cooling method. This paper proposed an investigation on double wall cooling configurations by computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Different cylindrical ribs were arranged on the different plates. Their cooling performances and flow field were analyzed, what's more, new rib arrangement, hole arrangement and spacing arrangement were proposed in the base of original arrangement, their cooling performances were compared. Finally, inclined mainstream is added for simulating gas impacting the inclined blade surface in real engine condition, the inclined angles were 30°, 45°, 60°. According to the results, ribs brought limit influence on the cooling effectiveness. More holes consumed extra 54 % coolant but only increase cooling effectiveness by 15 % under high blowing ratio. The inclined mainstream decreases cooling effectiveness by 67 % maximally. Under low coolant flow rate, cubic polynomial describes the correlation between cooling effectiveness and inclined angle, and under high coolant flow rate, linear polynomial is more suitable. Besides, offset arrangement shows better cooling performance under the inclined mainstream.

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