HEAT-TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT IN CHANNELS WITH TURBULENCE PROMOTERS Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Repeated rib roughness elements have been used in advanced turbine cooling designs to enhance the internal heat transfer. Often the ribs are perpendicular to the main flow direction so that they have an angle-of-attack of 90 degrees. The objective of this investigation was to determine the effect of rib angle-of-attack on the pressure drop and the average heat transfer coefficients in the fully developed turbulent air flow in a square duct with two opposite rib-roughened walls for Reynolds number varied from 7,000 to 90,000. Semi-empirical correlations for friction factor and heat transfer coefficients were developed to account for rib spacing and rib angle. The correlations can be used in the design of turbine blade cooling passages.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING FOR GAS TURBINES AND POWER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

author list (cited authors)

  • HAN, J. C., PARK, J. S., & LEI, C. K.

citation count

  • 281

complete list of authors

  • HAN, JC||PARK, JS||LEI, CK

publication date

  • July 1985