Heat transfer in gas turbines

This title presents and reflects current active research on various heat transfer topics and related phenomena in gas turbine systems. It begins with a general introduction to gas turbine heat transfer, before moving on to specific areas.

Chapter 1 Heat transfer issues in gas turbine systemsB. Sunden and M. Faghri
1 Introduction	p. 1
2 Combustor wall cooling	p. 2
3 Heat loads on combustor walls	p. 8
4 Guide vane and turbine blade cooling	p. 9
5 Recuperation and regeneration	p. 12
6 Intercooling	p. 15
7 Concluding remarks	p. 17
Chapter 2 Combustion chamber wall cooling: the example of multihole devicesB. Leger and J.M. Emidio
1 Introduction	p. 21
2 Techniques for combustion wall cooling	p. 22
3 Present experimental facilities	p. 26
4 Results	p. 28
5 Conclusion	p. 54
Chapter 3 Conjugate heat transfer: an advanced computational method for the cooling design of modern gas turbine blades and vanesD. Bohn and U. Kruger and K. Kusterer
1 Introduction	p. 58
2 Conventional cooling design	p. 61
3 New approach: Conjugate Calculation	p. 65
4 Validation	p. 70
5 Application for advanced cooling configurations	p. 82
6 Conclusions	p. 100
Chapter 4 Enhanced internal cooling of gas turbine airfoilsS.C. Lau
1 Introduction	p. 109
2 Stationary straight channels with rib-roughened walls	p. 112
3 Stationary multipass channels with smooth and roughened walls	p. 125
4 Rotating straight and multipass channels with smooth walls	p. 128
5 Rotating straight and multipass channels with roughened walls	p. 138
6 Channels with pin fins	p. 150
7 Channels with ejection holes	p. 154
8 Concluding remarks	p. 156
Chapter 5 Computations of internal and film coolingT.I-P. Shih and B.K. Sultanian
1 Introduction	p. 176
2 An overview on CFD	p. 178
3 Simulations of internal cooling	p. 188
4 Simulations of film cooling	p. 206
5 Final remarks	p. 214
Chapter 6 Heat transfer predictions of stator/rotor bladesR.S. Amano
1 Introduction	p. 227
2 Turbulence models	p. 229
3 Numerical models	p. 236
4 Computations	p. 250
5 Summary	p. 257
Chapter 7 Recuperators and regenerators in gas turbine systemsE. Utriainen and B. Sunden
1 Introduction	p. 263
2 Some concepts of enhancing the cycle efficiency using heat exchangers	p. 265
3 Areas of application	p. 270
4 Recuperator design	p. 274
5 Basic heat exchanger types	p. 277
6 Materials	p. 283
7 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)	p. 284
8 Final remarks	p. 286
Chapter 8 Experimental heat transfer in stationary rib-roughened rectangular channelsM.E. Taslim
1 Introduction	p. 291
2 Rectangular channels roughened with 90[degree] ribs	p. 292
3 Rectangular channels roughened with angled rib	p. 310
4 Effects of rib profile and spacing on heat transfer and friction in a rectangular channel	p. 325
5 Channels roughened with ribs on all walls	p. 337
6 Heat transfer coefficient on the rib surface	p. 348
Chapter 9 Experimental heat transfer in roughened leading- and trailing-edge and in spanwise rotating channelsM.E. Taslim
1 Introduction	p. 407
2 Trailing-edge cooling cavities	p. 408
3 Leading-edge cooling cavities	p. 428
4 Rotating geometries	p. 477

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