Film Cooling in a Pulsating Wall Jet
Abstract
Turbulent wall jets have many important engineering applications. Much effort has been spent to investigate the plane turbulent wall jet without external stream (Launder and Rodi 1981,1983, Katz et al 1992, Wygnanski et al 1992) and with a relatively slow external stream (Zhou and Wygnanski 1993, Zhou et al 1996). However, many engineering applications seem to be described better by a wall jet embedded in a uniform stream of comparable velocity (the weak wall jet), for example, the cooling turbine blades and the flows over a wing equipped with a slotted flap (Fig. 1) represents such flows. The recently developed technique for separation control by periodic blowing/suction on the flap also belongs to category (Fig.2). Thus, it is important to provide a better understanding of the development of these flows. For example: the possibility of flow similarity, normalization of the mean velocity fields, scaling laws for the governing parameters, as well as the various responses to external excitations. This report represents but a single facet of the general effort endeavoring to use the wall jet for boundary layer control, film cooling and the exertion of force on a body through the use of what is commonly known as the Coanda Effect.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 19, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA385851
Entities
People
- Israel Wygnanski
- M. D. Zhou
Organizations
- University of Arizona