Surface roughness is well known to significantly influence turbine aerodynamics and heat transfer; different studies have been undertaken in the last decades, in order to precisely characterize its effects and pursue a reliable and unified CFD modelling approach. Despite the effort, further research is still required to completely fulfill the goal, due to the complexity of the considered environment, with many other aspects and flow characteristics factoring into the final behavior. In this work an experimental campaign was carried out to evaluate the heat transfer coefficient on a linear nozzle guide vane geometry. The adopted geometry has been developed and tested, at different inlet turbulence intensity, Reynolds and Mach number, at Von Karman Institute. The results achieved on a test article with smooth surface were made available. In the present work the effect of increased turbulence level and surface roughness were taken into account, respectively using passive grids and conditioning the test sample surface finishing. Transient tests on a two-passages test rig were carried out: the surface temperature evolution was measured by means of IR thermography, in order calculate the heat flux evolution and retrieve the heat transfer coefficient. Tests with both smooth and rough test sample were carried out in order to benchmark the experimental apparatus first and then characterize the effect of surface roughness with different inlet turbulence intensity. The collected results integrate the existing database available in the open literature in order to support development and benchmarking of numerical approaches aimed at a reliable characterization of these aspects.


Effect of Surface Roughness and Inlet Turbulence Intensity on a Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane External Heat Transfer: Experimental Investigation on a Literature Test Case

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International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI)

Paper Proceedings: https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/GT/GT2020/volume/84058

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