In heavy-frame advanced turbine systems, steam is used as a coolant for turbine blade cooling. The concept of injecting mist into the impinging jets of steam was experimentally proved as an effective way of significantly enhancing the cooling effectiveness in the laboratory under low pressure and temperature conditions. However, whether or not mist/steam cooling is applicable under actual gas turbine operating conditions is still subject to further verification. Recognizing the difficulties of conducting experiments in an actual high-pressure, high-temperature working gas turbine, a simulation using a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model calibrated with laboratory data would be an opted approach. To this end, the present study conducts a CFD model calibration against the database of two experimental cases including a slot impinging jet and three rows of staggered impinging jets. The calibrated CFD model was then used to predict the mist cooling enhancement at the elevated gas turbine working condition. Using the experimental results, the CFD model has been tuned by employing different turbulence models, computational cells, and wall values. In addition, the effects of different forces (e.g., drag, thermophoretic, Brownian, and Saffman’s lift force) are also studied. None of the models is a good predictor for all the flow regions from near the stagnation region to far-field downstream of the jets. Overall speaking, both standard and Reynolds stress model (RSM) turbulence models perform better than other models. The RSM model has produced the closest results to the experimental data due to its capability of modeling the nonisotropic turbulence shear stresses in the 3D impinging jet fields. The simulated results show that the calibrated CFD model can predict the heat transfer coefficient of steam-only case within 2–5% deviations from the experimental results for all the cases. When mist is employed, the prediction of wall temperatures is within 5% for a slot jet and within 10% for three-row jets. The predicted results with 1.5% mist at the gas turbine working condition show the mist cooling enhancement of 20%, whereas in the laboratory condition, the enhancement is predicted as 80%. Increasing mist ratio to 5% increased the cooling enhancement to about 100% at the gas turbine working condition.
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Calibration of a Computational Model to Predict Mist/Steam Impinging Jets Cooling With an Application to Gas Turbine Blades
Ting Wang,
Ting Wang
Energy Conversion and Conservation Center,
e-mail: twang@uno.edu
University of New Orleans
, New Orleans, LA 70148-2220
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T. S. Dhanasekaran
T. S. Dhanasekaran
Energy Conversion and Conservation Center,
e-mail: tdhanase@uno.edu
University of New Orleans
, New Orleans, LA 70148-2220
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Ting Wang
Energy Conversion and Conservation Center,
University of New Orleans
, New Orleans, LA 70148-2220e-mail: twang@uno.edu
T. S. Dhanasekaran
Energy Conversion and Conservation Center,
University of New Orleans
, New Orleans, LA 70148-2220e-mail: tdhanase@uno.edu
J. Heat Transfer. Dec 2010, 132(12): 122201 (11 pages)
Published Online: September 17, 2010
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April 13, 2009
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July 7, 2010
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September 17, 2010
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September 17, 2010
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Wang, T., and Dhanasekaran, T. S. (September 17, 2010). "Calibration of a Computational Model to Predict Mist/Steam Impinging Jets Cooling With an Application to Gas Turbine Blades." ASME. J. Heat Transfer. December 2010; 132(12): 122201. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4002394
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