Investigation of Heat Transfer with Film Cooling to a Flat Plate in a Shock Tube.

摘要

The heat transfer occurring through turbulent boundary layers in modern gas turbines is not well understood. The heat transferred to a flat plate though a turbulent boundary layer presents many similarities without the complex flow patterns. The gas used in this study was air. The flow behind a passing shock wave in a shock tube was used to simulate the high temperature ratio flows found in gas turbines. Highly responsive heat flux gages were used to measure the temperature history of a flat plate exposed to the flow. High speed digital recorders were used to sample and store the information. Heat transfer rates were determined from temperature history using a computer program and a quadrature method. The temperature history was numerically averaged to filter out noise effects before it was used to calculate the heat flux. It was found that low shock Mach numbers produced measured heat flux rates that were predictable by theory. At higher Mach numbers the rounded leading edge of the plate produced reflections that increased the measured heat flux as the Mach number increased; but theory, dependent on incident shock Mach number, underpredicted these actual values. Film cooling flows were then studied under the same flow conditions. Ratios of heat transfer coefficients with blowing ratios of approximately two to three produced the best agreement with correlations. The effects of free stream turbulence on the heat flux with film cooling were also briefly studied. Theses. (AW)