TY - CHAP A1 - Behnam, Nouri A1 - Kühhorn, Arnold T1 - Automated CAE process for thermo-mechanical lifing prediction of a parameterized turbine blade with internal cooling T2 - Joined 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V), 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) conference Y1 - 2014 UR - http://www.wccm-eccm-ecfd2014.org/admin/files/fileabstract/a2070.pdf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Behnam, Nouri A1 - Kühhorn, Arnold T1 - Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Turbine Blade With Internal Cooling Including Local Distribution and Rotation Effects T2 - 11th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Atlanta, GA KW - gas turbine engines KW - cooling Y1 - 2014 UR - http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2014-2388 SN - 978-1-62410-281-3 PB - AIAA CY - Reston, VA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Nouri, Behnam A1 - Lehmann, Knut A1 - Kühhorn, Arnold T1 - Investigations on Nusselt Number Enhancement in Ribbed Rectangular Turbine Blade Cooling Channels of Different Aspect Ratios and Rotation Numbers T2 - ASME Turbo Expo 2013: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 3–7, 2013, Vol. 3A, Heat Transfer, Paper GT2013-94710 N2 - In the drive for higher cycle efficiencies in gas turbine engines, turbine blades are seeing an increasingly high heat load. This in turn demands improvements in the internal cooling system and a better understanding of both the level and distribution of the internal heat-transfer. A typical approach to enhance the internal cooling of the turbine blade is by casting angled ‘low blockage’ ribs on the walls of the cooling channels. The objective of the present paper is to determine the detailed Nusselt number distribution in rectangular internal channels with ribs. This knowledge can be used to guide the overall design e.g. to achieve high levels of heat-transfer where required. The effects of rotation as well as the interaction effects of the position and direction of ribs on opposite walls of the cooling channel have been investigated. Numerical calculations have been carried out using the commercial CFD code Fluent to investigate the local Nusselt number enhancement factor in rectangular ducts of different aspect ratios (0.5, 1 and 2) which have 45° or 90° angled ribs located on two opposite walls. This has been studied for different Rotation number Ro (0–0.45) and with a Reynolds number >30000. The first series of studies has been carried out with the same experimental setup as by Han [1]. The geometry was slightly changed to avoid the effect of high heat transfer at the entry. This study identifies important vortical structures, which are dependent on the direction and the position of the ribs. This has a profound effect on the distribution of heat-transfer within the passage. It is shown that the two smooth walls of the duct have different average Nusselt number ratio Nu/NuFD enhancement depending on the rib angle. In addition, based on numerical investigations, simple correlations have been developed for the rotational influence of the internal Nusselt number distribution. A major finding is that the effect of rotation is dominant for low aspect ratio channels and the local enhancement due to the rib position and angle is more dominant for high aspect ratio channels. Y1 - 2013 UR - http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1776088 SN - 978-0-7918-5514-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2013-94710 PB - ASME CY - New York ER -