Impingement/Effusion Cooling: Overall Wall Heat Transfer

Abstract

Experimental results are presented for the overall heat transfer coefficient within an impingement/effusion wall, using a transient cooling technique. This was previously used for determining the effusion hole heat transfer alone. Two impingement/effusion geometries were used with an 8 mm gap and the same impingement wall with an X/D of 11. The separate impingement and effusion short hole heat transfer coefficients were also determined. The impingement/effusion overall heat transfer was 45% and 30% higher than the impingement heat transfer alone for the two test geometries. The greater increase was for the higher pressure loss effusion wall. It was shown that the combined heat transfer was predominantly the addition of the impingement and effusion heat transfer coefficients but the interaction effects were significant and resulted in an approximately 15% deterioration in the combined heat transfer coefficient. Overall film cooling effectiveness was obtained that showed a significant improvement with the addition of the impingement cooling, but still had a major effusion film cooling contribution.