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Tip-shaping for HP turbine blade aerothermal performance management

Zhang, Q. & He, L. (2013). Tip-shaping for HP turbine blade aerothermal performance management. Journal of Turbomachinery, 135(5), doi: 10.1115/1.4007896

Abstract

A large portion of the over-tip leakage flow is often transonic for a typical high pressure (HP) turbine blade. It has been observed that the tip heat transfer is noticeably lower in a high speed flow tip region than in a low speed region. The present study therefore investigates the feasibility of controlling blade heat transfer by tip shaping to locally accelerate the flow to a transonic regime. The results show that a significant heat load reduction can be achieved by the local flow acceleration. Such over-tip-shaping provides a great potential as an effective means to control heat load distribution (and hence thermal stress) over the blade tip surface. The feasibility of the concept and flow physics have been demonstrated in detail by CFD analyses, with and without the effect of moving casing. The experimental results obtained from a high speed linear cascade facility have also been presented. The novel tip-shaping concept proposed in this paper could provide a potential for promoting choking inside the tip gap as a new way to control the over-tip leakage mass flow. © VC 2013 by ASME.

Publication Type: Article
Subjects: T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Engineering
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[thumbnail of Turbo-12-1204 submission 2011-10-16.pdf] Text - Accepted Version
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