As controlled laboratory experiments using full-stage turbines are expanded to replicate more of the complicated flow features associated with real engines, it is important to understand the influence of the vane inlet temperature profile on the high-pressure vane and blade heat transfer as well as its interaction with film cooling. The temperature distribution of the incoming fluid governs not only the input conditions to the boundary layer but also the overall fluid migration. Both of these mechanisms have a strong influence on surface heat flux and therefore component life predictions. To better understand the role of the inlet temperature profile, an electrically heated combustor emulator capable of generating uniform, radial, or hot streak temperature profiles at the high-pressure turbine vane inlet has been designed, constructed, and operated over a wide range of conditions. The device is shown to introduce a negligible pressure distortion while generating the inlet temperature conditions for a stage-and-a-half turbine operating at design-corrected conditions. For the measurements described here, the vane is fully cooled and the rotor purge flow is active, but the blades are uncooled. Detailed temperature measurements are obtained at rake locations upstream and downstream of the turbine stage as well as at the leading edge and platform of the blade in order to characterize the inlet temperature profile and its migration. The use of miniature butt-welded thermocouples at the leading edge and on the platform (protruding into the flow) on a rotating blade is a novel method of mapping a temperature profile. These measurements show that the reduction in fluid temperature due to cooling is similar in magnitude for both uniform and radial vane inlet temperature profiles.
Skip Nav Destination
e-mail: mathison.4@osu.edu
e-mail: haldeman.5@osu.edu
e-mail: dunn.129@osu.edu
Article navigation
January 2012
Research Papers
Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer for a Cooled One and One-Half Stage High-Pressure Turbine—Part I: Vane Inlet Temperature Profile Generation and Migration
R. M. Mathison,
R. M. Mathison
Gas Turbine Laboratory,
e-mail: mathison.4@osu.edu
The Ohio State University
, 2300 West Case Road, Columbus, OH 43235
Search for other works by this author on:
C. W. Haldeman,
C. W. Haldeman
Gas Turbine Laboratory,
e-mail: haldeman.5@osu.edu
The Ohio State University
, 2300 West Case Road, Columbus, OH 43235
Search for other works by this author on:
M. G. Dunn
M. G. Dunn
Gas Turbine Laboratory,
e-mail: dunn.129@osu.edu
The Ohio State University
, 2300 West Case Road, Columbus, OH 43235
Search for other works by this author on:
R. M. Mathison
Gas Turbine Laboratory,
The Ohio State University
, 2300 West Case Road, Columbus, OH 43235e-mail: mathison.4@osu.edu
C. W. Haldeman
Gas Turbine Laboratory,
The Ohio State University
, 2300 West Case Road, Columbus, OH 43235e-mail: haldeman.5@osu.edu
M. G. Dunn
Gas Turbine Laboratory,
The Ohio State University
, 2300 West Case Road, Columbus, OH 43235e-mail: dunn.129@osu.edu
J. Turbomach. Jan 2012, 134(1): 011006 (11 pages)
Published Online: May 25, 2011
Article history
Received:
July 6, 2010
Revised:
July 7, 2010
Online:
May 25, 2011
Published:
May 25, 2011
Connected Content
A companion article has been published:
Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer for a Cooled One and One-Half Stage High-Pressure Turbine–Part II: Influence of Inlet Temperature Profile on Blade Row and Shroud
A companion article has been published:
Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer for a Cooled One and One-Half Stage High-Pressure Turbine—Part III: Impact of Hot-Streak Characteristics on Blade Row Heat Flux
Citation
Mathison, R. M., Haldeman, C. W., and Dunn, M. G. (May 25, 2011). "Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer for a Cooled One and One-Half Stage High-Pressure Turbine—Part I: Vane Inlet Temperature Profile Generation and Migration." ASME. J. Turbomach. January 2012; 134(1): 011006. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4002994
Download citation file:
Get Email Alerts
Related Articles
Unsteady Aerodynamics and Interactions Between a High-Pressure Turbine Vane and Rotor
J. Turbomach (January,2006)
Aerodynamic and Heat Flux Measurements in a Single-Stage Fully Cooled Turbine—Part I: Experimental Approach
J. Turbomach (April,2008)
Analysis of Unsteady Tip and Endwall Heat Transfer in a Highly Loaded Transonic Turbine Stage
J. Turbomach (July,2012)
Related Proceedings Papers
Related Chapters
Outlook
Closed-Cycle Gas Turbines: Operating Experience and Future Potential
Introduction
Turbine Aerodynamics: Axial-Flow and Radial-Flow Turbine Design and Analysis
Control and Operational Performance
Closed-Cycle Gas Turbines: Operating Experience and Future Potential