Heat Transfer Modelling in Gas Turbine Stage

Abstract

Two 3D CFD solvers for internal flow applications are briefly presented and applied for the investigation of heat transfer problems in gas turbine components. The numerical approaches considered are respectively based on a structured (XFLOS) and on an unstructured (HybFlow) methods. The two solvers are briefly described in terms of discretization scheme and turbulence modelling features for gas-turbine applications. Information are also provided concerning the unsteady approach, the multi-blok extension and the parallel porting of the two codes. These implementations are considered for improving the computational efficiency in the application to complex 3D stage investigations. Particular care is demanded to the turbulent flow modelling which assumes great concern for heat transfer predictions on high loaded transonic turbine blades. According this observation, the two CFD approaches are initially applied to the heat transfer investigation of a 2D transonic turbine inlet NGV. Following this first assessment the thermal investigation of blade rows in considered for a 2D unsteady stage environment while further developments are finally reported for the 3D case.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA419187

Entities

People

  • E. Belardini
  • Fabrizio Martelli
  • P. Adami

Organizations

  • University of Florence

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Gas Turbines
  • Heat Transfer
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbine Blades
  • Turbine Components
  • Turbines
  • Turbomachinery
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Viscous Flow

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)