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TOWARD INCREASING PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY IN GAS TURBINES FOR POWER GENERATION AND AERO-PROPULSION: UNSTEADY SIMULATION OF ANGLED DISCRETE-INJECTION COOLANT IN A HOT GAS PATH CROSSFLOW

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Date Issued:
2011
Abstract/Description:
This thesis describes the numerical predictions of turbine film cooling interactions using Large Eddy Simulations. In most engineering industrial applications, the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations, usually paired with two-equation models such as k-[epsilon] or k-[omega], are utilized as an inexpensive method for modeling complex turbulent flows. By resolving the larger, more influential scale of turbulent eddies, the Large Eddy Simulation has been shown to yield a significant increase in accuracy over traditional two-equation RANS models for many engineering flows. In addition, Large Eddy Simulations provide insight into the unsteady characteristics and coherent vortex structures of turbulent flows. Discrete hole film cooling is a jet-in-cross-flow phenomenon, which is known to produce complex turbulent interactions and vortex structures. For this reason, the present study investigates the influence of these jet-crossflow interactions in a time-resolved unsteady simulation. Because of the broad spectrum of length scales present in moderate and high Reynolds number flows, such as the present topic, the high computational cost of Direct Numerical Simulation was excluded from possibility.
Title: TOWARD INCREASING PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY IN GAS TURBINES FOR POWER GENERATION AND AERO-PROPULSION: UNSTEADY SIMULATION OF ANGLED DISCRETE-INJECTION COOLANT IN A HOT GAS PATH CROSSFLOW.
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Name(s): Johnson, Perry, Author
Kapat, Jayanta, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2011
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: This thesis describes the numerical predictions of turbine film cooling interactions using Large Eddy Simulations. In most engineering industrial applications, the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations, usually paired with two-equation models such as k-[epsilon] or k-[omega], are utilized as an inexpensive method for modeling complex turbulent flows. By resolving the larger, more influential scale of turbulent eddies, the Large Eddy Simulation has been shown to yield a significant increase in accuracy over traditional two-equation RANS models for many engineering flows. In addition, Large Eddy Simulations provide insight into the unsteady characteristics and coherent vortex structures of turbulent flows. Discrete hole film cooling is a jet-in-cross-flow phenomenon, which is known to produce complex turbulent interactions and vortex structures. For this reason, the present study investigates the influence of these jet-crossflow interactions in a time-resolved unsteady simulation. Because of the broad spectrum of length scales present in moderate and high Reynolds number flows, such as the present topic, the high computational cost of Direct Numerical Simulation was excluded from possibility.
Identifier: CFH0004086 (IID), ucf:44798 (fedora)
Note(s): 2011-12-01
B.S.M.E.
Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering
Bachelors
This record was generated from author submitted information.
Subject(s): turbine film cooling
computational fluid dynamics
large eddy simulation
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004086
Restrictions on Access: campus 2016-11-01
Host Institution: UCF

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