Affiliation:
1. Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, 20158 Milano, Italy
Abstract
Turbulence intensity impacts the performance of turbine stages and it is an important inlet boundary condition for CFD computations; the knowledge of its value at the turbine inlet is then of paramount importance. In combustor–turbine interaction experimental studies, combustor simulators replace real combustors and allow for the introduction of flow perturbation at the turbine inlet. Therefore, the turbulence intensity of a combustor simulator used in a wide experimental campaign at Politecnico di Milano is characterized using a hot-wire probe in a blow-down wind tunnel, and the results are compared to URANS CFD computations. This combustor simulator can generate a combination of a swirl profile with a steady/unsteady temperature disturbance. In the cold unsteady disturbance case, hot-wire measurements are phase-averaged at the frequency of the injected perturbation. The combustor simulator turbulence intensity is measured at two different axial positions to understand its evolution.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Aerospace Engineering
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