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The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (대한기계학회)
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Effects of Combustor-Level High Inlet Turbulence on the Endwall Flow and Heat/Mass Transfer of a High-Turning Turbine Rotor Cascade

  • Lee, Sang-Woo (School of Mechanical Engineering Kumoh National Institute of Technology) ;
  • Jun, Sang-Bae (School of Mechanical Engineering Kumoh National Institute of Technology) ;
  • Park, Byung-Kyu (School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Joon-Sik (School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2004.08.01
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Abstract

Experimental data are presented which describe the effects of a combustor-level high free-stream turbulence on the near-wall flow structure and heat/mass transfer on the endwall of a linear high-turning turbine rotor cascade. The end wall flow structure is visualized by employing the partial- and total-coverage oil-film technique, and heat/mass transfer rate is measured by the naphthalene sublimation method. A turbulence generator is designed to provide a highly-turbulent flow which has free-stream turbulence intensity and integral length scale of 14.7% and 80mm, respectively, at the cascade entrance. The surface flow visualizations show that the high free-stream turbulence has little effect on the attachment line, but alters the separation line noticeably. Under high free-stream turbulence, the incoming near-wall flow upstream of the adjacent separation lines collides more obliquely with the suction surface. A weaker lift-up force arising from this more oblique collision results in the narrower suction-side corner vortex area in the high turbulence case. The high free-stream turbulence enhances the heat/mass transfer in the central area of the turbine passage, but only a slight augmentation is found in the end wall regions adjacent to the leading and trailing edges. Therefore, the high free-stream turbulence makes the end wall heat load more uniform. It is also observed that the heat/mass transfers along the locus of the pressure-side leg of the leading-edge horseshoe vortex and along the suction-side corner are influenced most strongly by the high free-stream turbulence. In this study, the end wall surface is classified into seven different regions based on the local heat/mass transfer distribution, and the effects of the high free-stream turbulence on the local heat/mass transfer in each region are discussed in detail.

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