Abstract
Due to manufacturing, assembly, and operational conditions, gaps are commonly presented in the turbine components, such as platform blade-to-blade gap (slashface gap) and rim cavity platform gap (slot gap). The coolant ejected through these gaps not only limits hot mainstream gas ingestion into the disk cavity but also has the potential to provide endwall film cooling coverage. Nevertheless, the interaction of these gap flows, predesigned film hole jets, and endwall secondary flows, significantly impacts endwall heat transfer and film cooling performance and leads to a more complicated flow field near endwall. To further understand the endwall flow physics behavior in this complicated flow field, the combined effects of film hole jets and multigap leakages (slashface jet and slot jet) were experimentally studied in a transient wind tunnel with a six-blade linear cascade (nonrotating). The endwall heat transfer was measured and recorded by the IR technique at inlet average turbulence intensity (Tu) of 7.5% and an exit Mach number (Maex) of 0.4. In addition, detailed numerical predictions were also performed to discuss the flow physics near endwall and the multigap leakages behavior. Results indicated that the slashface jet is an essential contributor to endwall film cooling performance in this endwall configuration. The slashface jet delays the development of the film hole jets, leading to an enhancement of film cooling performance downstream of the film holes. Increasing the mass flow ratio of the slashface jet (MFRslashface) can prevent the high-temperature mainstream ingestion, reduce the thermal failure risks, and increase the peak of film cooling effectiveness downstream of the endwall (167% at MFRslashface = 0.5%). Due to the limitation and hindrance impacts of the disk vortex (DV), the cavity vortex (CV), and the suction side leg of the horse-shoe vortex (HV,s), the slot flow is confined to a small region downstream of the slot gap.
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