The investigation is intended to verify a coupled solver developed for turbines to illustrate how transition exerts effects on the predicted thermal loads. The solver couples the N-S solver named HIT-3D, with a thermal conduction module using the finite difference method. Three operating conditions of the NASA-MarkII vane are selected to be the cases for tests. The models used in the simulations include Baldwin-Lomax (B-L) algebraic model, q-ω low-Re model and B-L & Abu-Ghannam and Shaw (AGS) model. The pre...
The gas-solids flow behavior was predicted by means of a hydrodynamic model of dense gas-solid flow in spouted beds. Constitutive equations describing the particle interactions and friction of particles and viscosity were incorporated into a hydrodynamic simulation computer program. The effect of operating conditions (inverted cone inclination and gas spouting velocity) on particle velocity and concentration in the three zones of spouted beds: spout, annulus and fountain were numerically studied. Both vertical and horizontal particle velocities increased with increasing spouting gas velocity in the spouted region. The diameter of the spout increases with decreasing inclination. As inclination is greater than 60°, there is a neck near the jet.
Conjugate calculation methodology is used to simulate the C3X gas turbine vanes cooled with leading edge films of 'shower- head' type. By comparing calculated results of different turbulence models with the measured data, it is clear that calculation with the transition model can better simulate the flow and heat transfer in the boundary layers with leading edge film cooling. In the laminar boundary layers, on the upstream suction side, the film cooling flow presents 3D turbulent characteristics before tran...
