Investigations of modified cooling hole injection angle configurations for improved trench film cooling performance
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Krishna Anand Vasudevan Girija
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Parammasivam Kanjikoil Mahali
Abstract
This study aims to evaluate the film-cooling performance of trench film cooling with a modified cooling hole injection angle configuration. Five different film hole injection angle configurations viz., forward injection 30°, forward injection 60°, perpendicular injection 90°, backward injection 60°, and backward injection 30° were tested for their performance through Computational fluid dynamic simulation. All the configurations were tested on a trench with a fixed length of 2 times and depth of 0.75 times the film hole diameter. The investigation was conducted at three blowing ratios of 0.4, 1.2, and 2.0. The experimental results of trench film cooling effectiveness with a backward injection of 30° show a close agreement with the computational data. The backward injection 30° film hole configuration has improved the spatially averaged film cooling effectiveness on the trench test surface by 29.41 % at a blowing ratio of 0.4, 30.65 % at a blowing ratio of 1.2, and 47.18 % at a blowing ratio of 2.0.
Acknowledgment
The author gratefully acknowledges the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for the financial support through the DST INSPIRE fellowship.
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Research ethics: Not applicable.
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Informed consent: Not applicable.
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Author contributions: The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission. Krishna Anand – meshing, modelling, CFD analysis, writing. Parammasivam – results analysis and writing.
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Use of Large Language Models, AI and Machine Learning Tools: None declared.
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Conflict of interest: The authors state no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Data availability: Not applicable.
Nomenclature
- D
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film hole diameter (mm);
- L/D
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length to the diameter ratio of the film cooling hole;
- P/D
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pitch to the diameter ratio of the film cooling hole;
- X/D
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dimensionless streamwise length of the test wall surface;
- Y/D
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dimensionless vertical extension from the test wall surface;
- Z/D
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dimensionless span side extension of the test wall surface;
- FCE
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ilm cooling effectiveness
Greek symbols
- α
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film hole injection angle (°)
- ƞ
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local film cooling effectiveness
- θ
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dimensionless temperature parameter
- ρ
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density of flow (kg/m3)
Subscripts
- ∞
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free stream
- aw
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adiabatic wall
- SA
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spatially average
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