As commercial and military aircraft engines approach higher total temperatures and increasing overall fuel-to-air ratios, the potential for significant chemical reactions on a film-cooled surface is enhanced. Currently, there is little basis for understanding the effects on aero-performance and durability due to such secondary reactions. A shock tube experiment was employed to generate short duration, high temperature (1000–2800 K) and pressure (6 atm) flows over a film-cooled flat plate. The test plate contained two sets of 35 deg film cooling holes that could be supplied with different gases, one side using air and the other nitrogen. A mixture of ethylene and argon provided a fuel rich freestream that reacted with the air film resulting in near wall reactions. The relative increase in surface heat flux due to near wall reactions was investigated over a range of fuel levels, momentum blowing ratios (0.5–2.0), and Damko¨hler numbers (ratio of flow to chemical time scales) from near zero to 30. For high Damko¨hler numbers, reactions had sufficient time to occur and increased the surface heat flux by 30 percent over the inert cooling side. When these results are appropriately scaled, it is shown that in some situations of interest for gas turbine engine environments significant increases in surface heat flux can be produced due to chemical reactions in the film-cooling layer. It is also shown that the non-dimensional parameters Damko¨hler number (Da), blowing ratio (B), heat release potential (H*), and scaled heat flux are the appropriate quantities to predict the augmentation in surface heat flux that arises due to secondary reactions.
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Gas Turbine Engine Durability Impacts of High Fuel-Air Ratio Combustors—Part II: Near-Wall Reaction Effects on Film-Cooled Heat Transfer
D. R. Kirk, Graduate Research Assistant,
D. R. Kirk, Graduate Research Assistant
Gas Turbine Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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G. R. Guenette, Principal Research Engineer,
G. R. Guenette, Principal Research Engineer
Gas Turbine Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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S. P. Lukachko, Research Engineer,
S. P. Lukachko, Research Engineer
Gas Turbine Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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I. A. Waitz, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
I. A. Waitz, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Gas Turbine Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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D. R. Kirk, Graduate Research Assistant
Gas Turbine Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
G. R. Guenette, Principal Research Engineer
Gas Turbine Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
S. P. Lukachko, Research Engineer
Gas Turbine Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
I. A. Waitz, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Gas Turbine Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Contributed by the International Gas Turbine Institute and presented at the International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 3–6, 2002. Manuscript received by the IGTI, November 27, 2001. Paper No. 2002-GT-30182 Review Chair: E. Benvenuti.
J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. Jul 2003, 125(3): 751-759 (9 pages)
Published Online: August 15, 2003
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Kirk, D. R., Guenette, G. R., Lukachko, S. P., and Waitz, I. A. (August 15, 2003). "Gas Turbine Engine Durability Impacts of High Fuel-Air Ratio Combustors—Part II: Near-Wall Reaction Effects on Film-Cooled Heat Transfer ." ASME. J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. July 2003; 125(3): 751–759. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1606473
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