Affiliation:
1. Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907;
2. von Karman Institute for Fluid Mechanics, Rhode-Saint-Genèse B-1640, Belgium
Abstract
The detailed characterization of the thermal boundary layer under periodic fluctuations is vital to improve the performance of cooled turbine airfoils, as well as to assess noise thermal and structural fatigue. In the present contribution, we performed detailed unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) simulations to investigate wall heat flux response to periodic flow velocity fluctuations over a flat plate. We also investigated the boundary layer response to sudden flow acceleration including periodic flow perturbations, caused by inlet total pressure variations. During a flow acceleration phase, the boundary layer is first stretched, resulting in an increase of the wall shear stress. Later on, due to the viscous diffusion, the low momentum flow adjusts to the new free stream conditions. The behavior of the boundary layer at low frequency is similar to the response to an individual deceleration followed by one acceleration. However, at higher frequencies, the mean flow topology is completely altered. One would expect that higher acceleration rates would cause a further stretching of the boundary layer that should cause even greater wall shear stresses and heat fluxes. However, we observed the opposite; the amplitude of the skin friction coefficient is abated, while the peak level is a full order of magnitude smaller than at low frequency.
Funder
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Aerospace Engineering,Fuel Technology,Nuclear Energy and Engineering
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