PIV Technology for Simulated Turbine Film-Cooling Flows.

Abstract

Two-color double-pulsed PIV(Particle Image Velocimetry) was used to investigate turbine film-cooling flows with high freestream turbulence and simulated wake passing. Since the instantaneous realizations of these highly turbulent and unsteady flows are not representative of mean flow behavior, 10 - 30 realizations were typically recorded. The average from these realizations of the film-cooling flows for 1% freestream turbulence was compared with the corresponding hot-wire profile. The PIV images revealed shear-layer structure developing from the film-cooling-hole walls that has not been previously considered in modeling these flows. Improved modeling of the fluid dynamics of interaction and development of these flows (jet-spread and turning) also resulted from this PIV technique. Two-color double-pulsed PW (Particle Image Velocimetry) was used to investigate turbine film-cooling flows with high freestream turbulence and simulated wake passing. Since the instantaneous realizations of these highly turbulent and unsteady flows are not representative of mean flow behavior, 10 - 30 realizations were typically recorded. The average from these realizations of the film-cooling flows for 1% freestream turbulence was compared with the corresponding hot-wire profile. The PW images revealed shear-layer structure developing from the film-cooling-hole walls that has not been previously considered in modeling these flows. Improved modeling of the fluid dynamics of interaction and development of these flows (jet-spread and turning) also resulted from this PIV technique.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 10, 1996
Accession Number
ADA312505

Entities

People

  • David J. Pestian
  • Larry P. Goss
  • Richard Rivir
  • Sivaram P. Gogineni

Organizations

  • Wright Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Film Cooling
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Hot Wire
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Reynolds Number
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Unsteady Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.