Numerical study on heat transfer characteristics of swirling flow on dimpled surfaces with effusion holes at turbine blade leading edge

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we conducted a numerical study to investigate the effect of the offset of the jet holes on heat transfer of swirling flow in a concave target chamber with various dimple structures and effusion holes at the turbine blade leading edge. The distance of the jet holes off the centerline e/d varies from 0 to 2.0. Four types of dimple structure, including spherical dimples (SDs) and oval-trench dimples (OTDs) in the inline and staggered arrangement, are considered. The heat transfer performance of the different leading-edge, impingement-effusion cooling structures is evaluated and compared at a Reynolds number of 30,000 based on the jet hole diameter. Results show that the offset of the jet holes provides 15% higher overall heat transfer performance and more uniform heat transfer of the target surface within the e/d range of 0-2.0. The introduction of the dimple structures on the target surface slightly decreases the overall averaged Nusselt number but enhance the heat transfer quantity due to the clear increase of heat transfer areas. Under the same e/d, the OTD structure, especially with the staggered arrangement, is superior to SD structure.