Three dimensional investigation of gas turbine cooling techniques on a flat plate and presentation a method with maximum cooling effectiveness

Cooling of high temperature systems such as gas turbine blades is one of the most important systems in industrial. In this paper, three dimensional cooling performance on a flat plate is calculated by a 3D finite-volume method and the realizable k-ε turbulence model which is the improved of the standard k-ε turbulence model and it can generate data more appropriate for fluid injections and jets. In this investigation, 4 different cases have compared together to find the best cooling case with maximum effectiveness. These cooling cases are including 2 cases of film cooling with console and cylindrical holes, one case of impingement cooling and one case of transpiration (with porous wall) cooling. For validation, the adiabatic cooling effectiveness for the console has been compared with the experimental data. These comparisons have been shown a good agreement between experimental and numerical data. The adiabatic cooling effectiveness, the effects of density ratio (by air and CO2 as a coolant) (DR) and blowing ratio (M) are studied in all cases. The adiabatic cooling effectiveness for console and transpiration cooling cases have compared together for studying the penetration of coolant fluid in the main stream (hot fluid) and showing the temperature and effectiveness distribution . The main purpose of this paper is finding the best cooling techniques with maximum effectiveness and the results have been shown which the designed transpiration cooling model has the best effectiveness respect to other cooling techniques.