Effects of Variable Jet Nozzle Angles on Cross-Flow Suppression and Heat Transfer Enhancement of Swirl Chamber

XIAO Kun; HE Juan; FENG Zhenping

doi:10.1007/s11630-022-1550-8

Journal of Thermal Science >

2022 , Vol. 31 >Issue 1: 214 - 223

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-022-1550-8

Heat and mass transfer

Effects of Variable Jet Nozzle Angles on Cross-Flow Suppression and Heat Transfer Enhancement of Swirl Chamber

XIAO Kun ,
HE Juan ,
FENG Zhenping

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Institute of Turbomachinery, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

Online published: 2023-11-30

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This study is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51876156).

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Science Press, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2022

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This paper investigated the effects of variable jetting nozzle angles on the cross-flow suppression and heat transfer enhancement of swirl cooling in gas turbine leading edge. The swirl chamber with vertical jet nozzles was set as the baseline, and its flow fields and heat transfer characteristics were analyzed by 3D steady state Reynolds-averaged numerical methods to reveal the mechanism of cross-flow weakening the downstream jets and heat transfer. On this basis, the flow structure on different cross sections and heat transfer characteristics of swirl chamber with variable jetting nozzle angels were compared with the baseline swirl chamber. The results indicated that for the baseline swirl chamber the circumferential velocity gradually decreased and the axial velocity gradually increased, and the cross-flow gradually formed. The cross-flow deflected the downstream jets and drawn them to the center of the chamber, thus weakening the heat transfer. For swirl chamber with variable jetting nozzle angles, the air axial velocity is axial upstream, opposite to the mainstream, so that the impact effects of cross-flow on the jets were reduced, and the heat transfer was enhanced. Furthermore, with the increase of axial velocity along the swirl chamber, the jetting nozzle angle also gradually increased, as well as the effect of cross-flow suppression, which formed a relative balance. For all swirl chambers with variable jet nozzle angles, the thermal performance factors were all larger than 1, which indicated the heat transfer was enhanced with less friction increment.

Key words： swirl cooling; cross-flow; heat transfer enhancement; variable jet nozzle angle

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XIAO Kun , HE Juan , FENG Zhenping . Effects of Variable Jet Nozzle Angles on Cross-Flow Suppression and Heat Transfer Enhancement of Swirl Chamber[J]. Journal of Thermal Science, 2022 , 31(1) : 214 -223 . DOI: 10.1007/s11630-022-1550-8

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