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JOURNAL OF TURBOMACHINERY-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
Volume 145, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
ASME
DOI: 10.1115/1.4056775
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heat transfer and film cooling
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This experimental study investigates the pressure loss and heat transfer performance of various channel shapes produced using direct metal laser sintering. It is found that the diamond channel has the lowest Nusselt number and friction factor, while the pentagon has a similar Nusselt number to the circular channel despite having a lower friction factor. Parallel computational fluid dynamic simulations are used to understand the cooling performance relationships between different channel shapes.
Additive manufacturing (AM) provides the ability to fabricate highly customized internal cooling passages that are relevant to gas turbine components. This experimental study examines the pressure loss and heat transfer performance of a range of fundamental channel shapes that were produced using direct metal laser sintering. Circular, hexagonal, pentagonal, elliptical, diamond, square, rectangular, trapezoidal, and triangular channel cross sections were investigated. To maintain the same convective surface area between shapes, the wetted perimeters of the channel cross sections were kept constant. Parallel computational fluid dynamic simulations were performed to understand the relationships in cooling performance between several channel shapes. Several characteristic length scales were evaluated to scale the pressure loss and heat transfer measurements. Among the channel shapes investigated, the diamond channel showed the lowest Nusselt number and friction factor. The pentagon exhibited a similar Nusselt number as the circular channel despite having a lower friction factor. There was no difference in scaling the friction factor or Nusselt number results of the different channel shapes between using the square root of cross-sectional area compared to hydraulic diameter as the characteristic length scale
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