Surface infrared thermography, hotwire anemometry, and thermocouple surveys were performed on two new film cooling hole geometries: spiral/rifled holes and fluidic sweeping holes. The spiral holes attempt to induce large-scale vorticity to the film cooling jet as it exits the hole to prevent the formation of the kidney-shaped vortices commonly associated with film cooling jets. The fluidic sweeping hole uses a passive in-hole geometry to induce jet sweeping at frequencies that scale with blowing ratios. The spiral hole performance is compared to that of round holes with and without compound angles. The fluidic hole is of the diffusion class of holes and is therefore compared to a 777 hole and square holes. A patent-pending spiral hole design showed the highest potential of the nondiffusion-type hole configurations. Velocity contours and flow temperature were acquired at discreet cross sections of the downstream flow field. The passive fluidic sweeping hole shows the most uniform cooling distribution but suffers from low span-averaged effectiveness levels due to enhanced mixing. The data were taken at a Reynolds number of 11,000 based on hole diameter and freestream velocity. Infrared thermography was taken for blowing ratios of 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 at a density ratio of 1.05. The flow inside the fluidic sweeping hole was studied using 3D unsteady Reynolds-average Navier–Stokes (RANS).
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September 2016
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Investigation of Spiral and Sweeping Holes
Ali Ameri,
Ali Ameri
Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH 43210
e-mail: ali.a.ameri@nasa.gov
and Aerospace Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH 43210
e-mail: ali.a.ameri@nasa.gov
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Vikram Shyam
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Douglas Thurman
Philip Poinsatte
Ali Ameri
Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH 43210
e-mail: ali.a.ameri@nasa.gov
and Aerospace Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH 43210
e-mail: ali.a.ameri@nasa.gov
Dennis Culley
Surya Raghu
Vikram Shyam
1Corresponding author.
Contributed by the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF TURBOMACHINERY. Manuscript received December 16, 2015; final manuscript received February 16, 2016; published online April 12, 2016. Editor: Kenneth C. Hall.
This material is declared a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
J. Turbomach. Sep 2016, 138(9): 091007 (11 pages)
Published Online: April 12, 2016
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December 16, 2015
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February 16, 2016
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Thurman, D., Poinsatte, P., Ameri, A., Culley, D., Raghu, S., and Shyam, V. (April 12, 2016). "Investigation of Spiral and Sweeping Holes." ASME. J. Turbomach. September 2016; 138(9): 091007. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4032839
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