Influence of film cooling jet inlet boundary condition on large eddy simulation of model turbine blade leading edge

Farzad Bazdidi-Tehrani*, Nima Bohlooli, Mohammad Jadidi

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Abstract

The present paper investigates the influence of film cooling jet inlet boundary condition (IBC) on the large eddy simulation (LES) of film cooling in a model turbine blade with a curved leading edge. Four different IBCs comprising: 1) uniform flow; 2) time independent fully developed turbulent flow and time dependent fully developed turbulent flow perturbed by the vortex method applying two turbulence intensities of 2% and 7% are employed. Results show that accuracy of LES predictions is greatly reliant on coolant jet IBC and case (4) illustrates the best agreement with experiment whilst other cases over-predict the adiabatic effectiveness. Also, film cooling jet IBC not only has a significant influence on flow field vortical structures, but also influences the entrainment and mixing of cold and hot flows. Additionally, the capability of the vortex method for producing a time dependent IBC in leading edge film cooling application is examined and confirmed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)214-227
Number of pages14
JournalProgress in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Volume15
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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Keywords

  • Adiabatic effectiveness
  • Film cooling
  • Inlet boundary condition
  • Large eddy simulation
  • Leading edge
  • LES
  • Vortex method

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