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Title:
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF ANTI-VORTEX FILM COOLING ON A FLAT PLATE
Authors: MOSTAFA ABDEL-MOHIMEN*, TAREK MEKHAIL**, SAMIR S. AYAD*, KARAM M. EL-SHAZLY*
Year: 2010
Keywords: Film Cooling, Anti-Vortex, Turbine Blade Cooling
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Local/International: International
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Full paper Karam Mahmoud Hassan El-Shazly_M-AbdeMohiamen ICFD10-EG-3004.pdf
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Abstract:

An experimental test rig is constructed to study different configurations of the film cooling technique developed at NASA Glenn Research Center. This technique depends on adding a pair of cylindrical anti-vortex holes branching out from the main cylindrical film cooling holes to mitigate the effect of kidney vortices that causes the jet to lift off. Four different values of velocity ratios (VR), (Coolant Jet Velocity/Main Stream Velocity) namely VR=0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0, are studied with three different positions of anti-vortex holes. A single row of 30o angled holes on a flat surface, which gives a zero pressure gradient along the downstream test surface, is taken as a baseline. The different holes configurations are tested. The numerical study is carried out using FLUENT commercial code using the k-ε model. The density ratio is taken in consideration. Numerical results are first compared with experimental values of temperatures and film cooling effectiveness and the comparisons verified the numerical model. Both of experimental and numerical studies show that the new technique improves the film cooling effectiveness. The numerical velocity vectors in the boundary layer region showed that the anti-vortex holes create reverse vortices against the main vortices that are created by the main hole. These reverse vortices help in keeping the coolant jet flow near the surface.

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