Jiefeng Wang¹, Eddie Yin Kwee Ng^2,*, Jianwu Li¹, Yanhao Cao¹, Yanan Huang¹, Liang Li^1,2,3,*

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.21, pp. 1-31, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fhmt.2023.045510 - 30 November 2023

Abstract The flow structure of the vortex cooling is asymmetrical compared to the traditional gas turbine leading edge cooling, such as the impingement cooling and the axial flow cooling. This asymmetrical property will affect the cooling performance in the blade leading edge, whereas such effects are not found in most of the studies on vortex cooling due to the neglect of the mainstream flow in the airfoil channel. This study involves the mainstream flow field and the rotational effects based on the profile of the GE E³ blade to reveal the mechanism of the asymmetrical flow structure… More > Graphic Abstract

Je-Chin Han^*, Akhilesh P. Rallabandi

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 1-21, 2010, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v1.1.3001

Abstract Film cooling is widely used to protect modern gas turbine blades and vanes from the ever increasing inlet temperatures. Film cooling involves a very complex turbulent flow-field, the characterization of which is necessary for reliable and economical design. Several experimental studies have focused on gas turbine blade, vane and end-wall film cooling over the past few decades. Measurements of heat transfer coefficients, film cooling effectiveness values and heat flux ratios using several different experimental methods have been reported. The emphasis of this current review is on the Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) mass transfer analogy to More >