Fundamental Gas Turbine Heat

Transfer
Je-Chin Han
Turbine Heat Transfer Laboratory,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX 77843-3123
e-mail: jc-han@tamu.edu
Gas turbines are used for aircraft propulsion and land-based power generation or
industrial applications. Thermal efficiency and power output of gas turbines increase
with increasing turbine rotor inlet temperatures (RIT). Current advanced gas turbine
engines operate at turbine RIT (1700  C) far higher than the melting point of the blade
material (1000  C); therefore, turbine blades are cooled by compressor discharge air
(700  C). To design an efficient cooling system, it is a great need to increase the under-
standing of gas turbine heat transfer behaviors within complex 3D high-turbulence
unsteady engine-flow environments. Moreover, recent research focuses on aircraft gas
turbines operating at even higher RIT with limited cooling air and land-based gas tur-
bines burn coal-gasified fuels with a higher heat load. It is important to understand and
solve gas turbine heat transfer problems under new harsh working environments. The
advanced cooling technology and durable thermal barrier coatings play critical roles for
the development of advanced gas turbines with near zero emissions for safe and long-life
operation. This paper reviews fundamental gas turbine heat transfer research topics and
documents important relevant papers for future research. [DOI: 10.1115/1.4023826]

Introduction turbine blade geometry under engine operating conditions. Gas

High Temperature Gas Turbines. Developments in turbine
cooling technology play a critical role in increasing the thermal
efficiency and power output of advanced gas turbines. To double
the engine power in aircraft gas turbines, the rotor inlet tempera-
ture should increase from today’s 1700  C to 2000  C (3100  F to
3600  F) using the similar amount of cooling air (3–5% of com-
pressor discharge air). For land-based power generation gas
turbines, including power generation (300–400 MW combined
cycles), marine propulsion, and industrial applications such as
pumping and cogeneration (less than 30 MW), the rotor inlet tem-
perature will increase, but at a rate determined by NOx con-
straints; with the emphasis on NOx reduction, efficient use of
cooling air becomes more important in order to achieve cycle effi-
ciency gains. Therefore, high-temperature material development
such as thermal barrier coating (TBC) and highly sophisticated
advanced cooling are two important issues that need to be
addressed to ensure high-performance, high-power gas turbines
for both aircraft and land-based applications.
Gas Turbine Heat Transfer. Figure 1 shows a typical heat
flux distribution on the surfaces of a turbine vane and blade and
the associated internal and external cooling schemes [1]. As the
turbine inlet temperature increases, the heat transferred to the tur-
bine blade also increases. The level and variation in the tempera-
ture within the blade material, which cause thermal stresses and
blade failures, must be limited to achieve reasonable durability
goals. Note that the blade life may be reduced by half if the blade
metal temperature prediction is off by only 30  C (50  F). There-
fore, it is critical to accurately predict the local heat transfer coef-
ficient as well as the local blade temperature in order to prevent
local hot spots and increase turbine blade life. Meanwhile, there is
a critical need to cool the blades for safe and long-life operation.
Gas Turbines Cooling System. The turbine blades are cooled
with extracted air from the compressor of the gas turbine engine.
Since this extraction incurs a penalty on the thermal efficiency
and power output of the gas turbine engine, it is important to fully
understand and optimize the cooling technology for a given
Manuscript received October 15, 2012; final manuscript received February 9,
2013; published online May 17, 2013. Assoc. Editor: Srinath V. Ekkad.
turbine blades are cooled both internally and externally as shown
in Fig. 2 [2]. Internal cooling is achieved by passing the coolant
through several rib-turbulated serpentine passages inside of the
blade. Both jet impingement and pin-fin cooling are also used as a
method of internal cooling. External cooling is also called film
cooling. Internal coolant air is ejected out through discrete holes
to provide a coolant film to protect the outside surface of the blade
from hot combustion gases. The engine cooling system must be
designed to ensure that the maximum blade surface temperatures
and temperature gradients during operation are compatible with
the allowable blade thermal stress for the life of the design. Too
little coolant flow results in hotter blade temperatures and reduced
component life. Similarly, too much coolant flow results in
reduced engine performance. The turbine cooling system must be
designed to minimize the use of compressor discharge air for
cooling purposes to achieve maximum benefits of the high turbine
inlet gas temperature.
Advanced Hydrogen Gas Turbines. In addition to conven-
tional natural gas, syngas or hydrogen (produced from coal gasifi-
cation) are viable alternative fuels. These coal gasified fuels
produce a high percentage of water vapor (steam) and increase
heavy heat load to the turbine components. These coal-based fuels
may introduce impurities into the mainstream gas which can cause
corrosion and erosion on the surface of the airfoils, or the impur-
ities may be deposited on the components. All of these scenarios
increase the surface roughness of the components, increase heat
transfer, increase aerodynamic losses, increase clogging of film
cooling holes, decrease film-cooling effectiveness, and decrease
the performance of the turbine. Recent research suggests that the
advanced cooling technology and durable thermal barrier coatings
still play critical roles for the development of future coal-based
gas turbines with near zero emissions (for example, integrated
gasification combined cycles (IGCC), thermal efficiency greater
60%).
Important Literature Survey. Research activities in turbine
heat transfer and cooling began in the early 1970s; since then,
many research papers, state-of-the-art review articles, and book
chapters have been published. Several publications are available
that address state-of-the-art reviews of turbine blade cooling and

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 Fig. 1 Cross-sectional view and heat flux distribution of a cooled vane and blade [1]

heat transfer. These include publications by “Film Cooling” by
Goldstein [3], “Turbine Cooling” by Suo [4], “Cooling Techni-
ques for Gas Turbine Airfoils” by Metzger [5], “Some Considera-
tions in the Thermal Design of Turbine Airfoil Cooling Systems”
by Elovic and Koffel [6], and “Turbine Cooling and Heat Trans-
fer” by Lakshminarayana [7]. Several review articles related to
gas turbine heat-transfer problems by Graham [8] and Simoneau
and Simon [9] are also available.
Several Books Have Been Published Since 2000: Gas Turbine
Heat Transfer and Cooling Technology by Han et al. [10], Heat
Transfer in Gas Turbines edited by Sunden and Faghri [11],
Heat Transfer in Gas Turbine Systems edited by Goldstein [12],
Special Section: Turbine Science and Technology (included 10
review papers) edited by Shih [13], Heat Transfer in Gas Turbine
Systems (included 10 keynote papers) edited by Simon and Gold-
stein [14]. Meanwhile, many review papers related to gas turbine
heat transfer and cooling problems are available: “Convection
Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics in Axial Flow Turbines” by
Dunn [15], “Gas Turbine Heat Transfer: 10 Remaining Hot Gas
Path Challenges” by Bunker [16], “Gas Turbine Film Cooling” by
Bogard and Thole [17], “Turbine Blade Cooling Studies” at Texas
A&M 1980–2004 by Han [18], “Turbine Cooling System Design-
Past, Present and Future” by Downs and Landis [19], and
“Aerothermal Challenges in Syngas Hydrogen-Fired and Oxyfuel
Turbines” by Chyu et al. [20].
The ASME Turbo Expo (IGTI International Gas Turbine Insti-
tute) has made conference CDs available to every year’s attendees

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 Fig. 2 Gas turbine blade cooling schematic: (a) film cooling, (b) internal cooling [2]
since 2000. These conference CDs contain all gas turbine heat
transfer papers presented in each year’s IGTI conference. The
numbers of heat transfer related conference papers have increased
from about 100 in the year 2000 to about 200 in the year 2010.
Approximately 25–30% of each year’s conference heat transfer
papers have been subsequently published in the ASME Journal of
Turbomachinery. These tremendous amounts of conference and
journal papers are the main research sources of gas turbine heat
transfer and cooling technology for interested readers.
Gas Turbine Heat Transfer
Fundamentals of Gas Turbine Heat Transfer. Current tur-
bine designs are characterized by an inability to accurately predict
heat-transfer coefficient distributions under turbomachinery flow
conditions. This results in a nonoptimized design using inordinate
amounts of cooling air, which ultimately causes significant penal-
ties to the cycle in terms of thrust and specific fuel consumption.
Hot-gas path components include turbine stator vanes and turbine
rotor blades. Turbine first-stage vanes (so called nozzle guide
vane, NGV) are exposed to high-temperature, high turbulence hot
gases from the exit of the combustor as sketched in Fig. 1 [1]. It is
important to determine the heat load distributions on the first-
stage vanes under engine flow conditions for a typical gas turbine
engine. An accurate estimate of the heat-transfer distributions can
help in designing an efficient cooling system and prevent local
hot-spot overheating. Gas to airfoil heat transfer can be affected
by airfoil shape (surface curvature and pressure gradient), bound-
ary layer transitional behavior, free-stream turbulence, airfoil sur-
face roughness, film coolant injection location, flow separation
and reattachment, and shock/boundary layer interaction, exit
Mach number and Reynolds number.
After accelerating from the first-stage vanes, hot gases move
into the first stage rotor blades to produce turbine power as
sketched in Fig. 1 [1]. At the inlet of the first-stage rotor blade,
both the temperature and turbulence levels are lower compared to
the inlet of the first-stage vane. However, the inlet velocity could
be two to three times higher. Besides, the blade receives unsteady
wake flows from the upstream vane trailing edge (turbulent inten-
sity up to 20%). More importantly, blade rotation causes hot gases
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to leak from the pressure side through a tip gap to the suction side.
This often causes damage on the blade tip near the pressure side
trailing-edge region. It is important to understand the complex 3D
flow physics and associated heat-transfer distributions on the rotor
blade, particularly near the tip region, under typical engine flow
conditions. It is important to note that rotation causes the peak gas
temperature to shift from the blade pitch line toward the tip
region. It is also important to correctly predict the RIT profile as
well as the associated unsteady velocity profile and turbulence
levels. Many papers were reviewed and cited in Chapter 2 of Han
et al. [10].
Heat Transfer Through Turbine Stator Vanes. For typical
NGV designs, heat-transfer coefficients on the pressure surface
decrease rapidly from the leading edge to about 20% surface dis-
tance and then gradually increase toward the trailing edge. The
heat-transfer distribution on the pressure surface is not affected by
changing the exit Mach number (Mach ¼ 0.75–1.05). On the suc-
tion surface, heat-transfer coefficient distributions show laminar
boundary layer separation, transition, and turbulent reattachment
at about 25% surface distance. The location of the laminar bound-
ary layer transition seems to move upstream with decreasing exit
Mach number, and downstream of that location, heat-transfer
coefficients are higher with decreasing exit Mach numbers. In
regions where the boundary layer remained attached (before tran-
sition), there is no apparent effect of the exit Mach number. More-
over, the transition location on the suction surface moves closer to
the leading edge with an increase in exit Reynolds number
(Re ¼ 1–1.5  106). Overall, heat-transfer coefficients over the
entire airfoil surface showed significant increases with an increase
in exit Reynolds number reported by Nealy et al. [21].
Turbulence and Roughness Effects. Combustor generated tur-
bulence (high turbulence intensity up to 20% and large scale) con-
tributes to significant heat transfer enhancement. Turbulence can
strongly affect laminar heat transfer to the stagnation region, pres-
sure surface, transition, and turbulent boundary layer heat transfer
by Ames [22]. Another severe heat-transfer enhancement factor
for NGV heat transfer is the surface roughness effect. Combustion
deposits may make the vane surface rough after several hours of
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 operation, and this roughness could be detrimental to the life of the
vane due to increased heat-transfer levels that are much higher
than design conditions, as well as decreased aerodynamic
performance cited by Abuaf et al. [23]. The already enhanced
heat-transfer coefficients on the pressure surface due to high free-
stream turbulence (Tu ¼ 10%) are unaffected by the surface rough-
ness. However, the effect on suction surface is significant. A
combination of surface roughness with high free-stream turbulence
causes the boundary layer to undergo transition more rapidly than
for the high free-stream turbulence case only by Hoffs et al. [24].
Heat Transfer Through Turbine Rotor Blades. Figure 3(a)
depicts a complex flow phenomenon in a turbine rotor hot gas
passage including secondary flows, horseshoe vortex, end wall
passage vortex, film cooling, tip flows, wakes, and rotation flows
[25]. The heat-transfer distributions for not film-cooled blades are
higher than those for film-cooled blades at the same engine flow
conditions. These heat-transfer distributions could differ for var-
ied engine flow conditions; therefore, it is critical for a designer to
be able to accurately predict these distributions for film-cooled or
no film-cooled blades in order to design an efficient cooling
scheme. Most of the primary results on real rotor/stator heat trans-
fer have been provided by Calspan Advanced Technology Center
by Dunn et al. [26,27]. They used a full-stage rotating turbine of
the Garrett TFE 731-2 engine with an aspect ratio of around 1.5,
as well as a full-stage rotating turbine of an Air Force/Garrett
low-aspect-ratio turbine with an aspect ratio of approximately 1.0.
They reported heat flux measurements on the NGV airfoil and end
wall, the rotor blade, blade tip, and shroud of the turbine. A
shock-tunnel facility was intended to provide well-defined flow
conditions and duplicate sufficient number of parameters to
Fig. 3 (a) Typical film cooled airfoil [25] and (b) end wall vorti-
ces [39]
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validate and improve confidence in design data and predictive
techniques under development.
Blair et al. [28,29] conducted experiments on a large-scale am-
bient temperature, turbine-stage model. The turbine-stage model
consisted of a stator, a rotor, and an additional stator behind the
rotor (11=2 stage). They also studied the effects of inlet turbulence,
stator-rotor axial spacing, and relative circumferential spacing of
the first and second stators on turbine airfoil heat transfer. This
test facility was designed for conducting detailed experimental
investigations for flow around turbine blading. Guenette et al. [30]
presented local heat-transfer measurements for a fully scaled tran-
sonic turbine blade. The measurements were performed in the
MIT blow down turbine tunnel. The facility has been designed to
simulate the flow Reynolds number, Mach number, Prandtl num-
ber, corrected speed and weight flow, and gas-to-metal tempera-
ture ratios associated with turbine fluid mechanics and heat
transfer. They used thin-film heat flux gauges to measure the
upstream NGV trailing edge unsteady wake effect on the down-
stream rotor blade surface time-dependent heat-transfer coeffi-
cients. They found that, on the suction surface, the blade-passing
effect is stronger at the leading edge and attenuates toward the
trailing edge. The steep variations of the heat transfer enhance-
ment on the suction surface indicate strong wake propagation to-
ward the suction surface near the leading edge and then moving
toward the pressure surface near the trailing edge.
Effect of Upstream Unsteady Wake. The upstream vane-
generated unsteady wake impinging on the downstream rotor is
simulated using a stationary blade cascade and an upstream wake
generator. Wake-simulation experiments typically used a rotating
spoked-wheel wake generator by Dullenkopf et al. [31] upstream
of the stationary blade cascade to simulate the relative motion of
vane trailing edges. The relative motion of the rods on the wake
generator creates unsteady wakes that impinge on the downstream
blade cascade. Guenette et al. [30] confirmed the validity of using
rotating-bar simulation. In general, unsteady wake promotes early
boundary layer transition and increases heat load to suction sur-
face as well as pressure surface of the turbine blade. Mayle [32]
developed an intermittency model to predict laminar-turbulent
boundary layer transition due to turbulence spots production rate
from various experiments. The intermittency model was able to
predict the turbine blade suction-surface heat transfer enhance-
ment due to unsteady wake flow conditions.
Heat Transfer Through Turbine Blade Tip. Turbine blade
tip and near-tip regions are typically difficult to cool, and are sub-
jected to potential damage due to high thermal loads (blade tip
heat transfer coefficients are same order as leading edge stagna-
tion region). Unshrouded blades have a gap existing between the
blade tip and the shroud surface, which is known as tip gap. The
leakage flow accelerates due to a pressure difference between
both the pressure and suction sides of the blade, causing thin
boundary layers, high heat transfer rates, and low turbine effi-
ciency. It has been recognized that the blade tip geometry and
subsequent tip leakage flows have a significant effect on the aero-
dynamic efficiency of turbines. A common technique to reduce
the tip leakage flow is to use a recessed tip, which is known as a
squealer tip as shown in Fig. 4 [33]. A squealer tip allows a
smaller tip clearance, without the risk of a catastrophic failure, in
case the tip rubs against the shroud during turbine operation. The
tip recess also acts as a labyrinth seal to increase flow resistance
and reduce the tip leakage flow. Thus, it is important to under-
stand both the flow and heat transfer behavior on the squealer tip
of a gas turbine blade. Reliable experimental data are also impor-
tant to develop and validate computational codes to predict flow
and heat transfer distributions on turbine blades. Several papers
presented heat transfer results under engine representative main-
stream flow conditions by Ameri et al. [34], Bunker et al. [35],
Azad et al. [36] and Dunn and Haldeman [37]. Results show vari-
ous regions of high and low heat transfer coefficient on the tip
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Fig. 4 Typical gas turbine blade squealer tip cooling configu-
ration [33]
surface; heat transfer coefficient increases with tip clearance and
turbulence intensity. Azad et al. [36] compared squealer tip and
plane tip geometry and concluded that the overall heat transfer
coefficients were lower for squealer tip case. Kwak et al. [38]
investigated the heat transfer on several different squealer geome-
tries. They found that a suction side squealer tip gave the lowest
heat transfer coefficient among all cases studied.
Heat Transfer Through Turbine End-Wall. Several studies
have shown how a horseshoe vortex develops at the leading edge
of the turbine vanes and blades, as shown in Fig. 3(b) [39]. Elimi-
nating the formation of the horseshoe vortex at the leading edge
of the turbine blade will positively impact the performance of the
engine. Adding a fillet at the junction of the airfoil and platform
has been shown to eliminate the vortex formed at the leading edge
of the blade by Sauer et al. [40]. Not only does the elimination of
the horseshoe vortex decrease aerodynamic losses, but it also has
a positive impact on the end wall heat transfer and film cooling.
Shih and Lin [41] predicted fillets not only reduce aerodynamic
losses, but the surface heat transfer is reduced by more than 10%
on the airfoil surface and more than 30% on the vane end wall. A
second method to mitigate the secondary flow along the end wall
is to implement end wall contouring. Kopper et al. [42] deter-
mined the secondary losses are reduced by up to 17% through a
passage with a contoured end wall (compared to a flat end wall).
Saha and Acharya [43] applied nonaxisymmetric profiling to the
end wall of rotor blade cascade. Schobeiri and Lu [44] recently
reported the efficiency of a three-stage rotating turbine can be
greatly improved by applying a physic-based diffuser-flow con-
cept for optimizing nonaxisymmetric end wall contouring.
Thermal Barrier Coating and Spallation Effects. For
safer operation, the turbine blades in current engines use nickel-
based super alloys at metal temperatures well below 1000  C
(2000  F). For higher RIT, the advanced casting techniques,
such as directionally solidified and single crystal blades with TBC
coating, are used for advanced gas turbines. TBC coating serves
as insulation for the turbine airfoils and allows a 100–150  C
(200  F–300  F) higher RIT, thereby enhancing turbine effi-
ciency. There are two types of coating techniques: (1) air plasma
spray with plate structure/porosity/low thermal conductivity and
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(2) electron beam physical vapor deposition with column struc-
ture/dense/high thermal conductivity by Nelson et al. [45]. The
performance of TBC coatings, the zirconia-based ceramics,
depends on the aforementioned coating techniques and the coating
thickness (5–50 mil). The United States government laboratories,
gas turbine manufacturers, and university researchers have con-
ducted research to identify better coating materials, better coating
techniques, controllable coating thicknesses, good bonding coats,
and hot corrosion tests for TBC life prediction. It is important to
determine the effects of TBC roughness and the potential TBC
spallation on turbine aerodynamic and heat-transfer performance.
Ekkad and Han [46,47] studied the effect of simulated TBC spal-
lation shape, size, and depth on heat transfer enhancement over a
flat surface as well as on a cylindrical leading-edge model. They
found that the spallation can enhance the local heat transfer coeffi-
cients up to two times as compared to that with the smooth
surface.
Deposition and Roughness Effects. Recent experimental
work in measuring the formation of deposits has been done under
the UTSR program by Bons et al. [48]. In a series of experiments
in an accelerated test facility, Wammack et al. [49] investigated
the physical characteristics and evolution of surface deposition on
bare polished metal, polished TBC with bond coat (initial average
roughness was less than 0.6 micrometers) and unpolished oxida-
tion resistant bond coat (initial average roughness around 16
micrometers). Based on these results, they inferred that the initial
surface preparation has a significant effect on deposit growth, that
thermal cycling combined with particle deposition caused exten-
sive TBC spallation while thermal cycling alone caused none, and
finally that the deposit penetration into the TBC is a significant
contributor to spallation. Subsequently, Bons et al. [48] made con-
vective heat transfer measurements using scaled models of the de-
posited roughness and found that the Stanton number was
augmented by between 15 and 30% over a smooth surface. They
concluded that deposition increased by a factor of two as the mass
mean diameter of the particle was increased from 3–16 micro-
meters. Second, particle deposition decreased with decreasing gas
temperature and with increased backside cooling. They found a
threshold gas temperature for deposition to occur at 960  C.
Gas Turbine Film Cooling
Fundamentals of Film Cooling. In turbine blade film cooling,
as sketched in Fig. 2, relatively cool air is injected from the inside
of the blade to the outside surface, which forms a protective layer
between the blade surface and hot mainstream. Film cooling
depends primarily on the coolant-to-hot-mainstream pressure ratio
(pc/pt), temperature ratio (Tc/Tg), and the film-cooling-hole loca-
tion, configuration, and distribution on a film-cooled airfoil.
The coolant-to mainstream pressure ratio can be related to the
coolant-to-mainstream mass flux ratio (blowing ratio), while the
coolant-to-mainstream temperature ratio can be related to the cool-
ant-to-mainstream density ratio. In a typical gas turbine airfoil, the
pc/pt ratios vary from 1.02 to 1.10, while the corresponding blowing
ratios vary approximately from 0.5 to 2.0. Whereas the Tc/Tg val-
ues vary from 0.5 to 0.85, the corresponding density ratios vary
approximately from 2.0 to 1.5. In general, the higher the pressure
ratio, the better the film-cooling protection (i.e., reduced heat
transfer to the airfoil) at a given temperature ratio, while the lower
the temperature ratio, the better the film-cooling protection at a
given pressure ratio. However, a too high pressure ratio (i.e.,
blowing too much) may reduce the film-cooling protection
because of jet penetration into the mainstream (jet liftoff from the
surface). Data from numerous studies available in open literature
suggest a blowing ratio near unity is optimum, with severe penal-
ties at either side. As mentioned earlier, turbine-cooling system
designers need to know where the heat is transferred from the
hot mainstream to the airfoil (Fig. 1) in order to design better
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 film-cooling patterns for airfoils. These film-hole patterns (i.e.,
film-hole location, distribution, angle, and shape) affect film-
cooling performance. The best film cooling design is to reduce the
heat load to the airfoils using a minimum amount of cooling air
from compressors. Many papers were reviewed and cited in Chap-
ter 3 of Han et al. [10].
Flat Plate Film Cooling. It is common in literature to use a
flat plate to perform fundamental studies on various parametric
effects on film cooling such as the study done by Goldstein [3].
Moreover, results on flat plates have been used to calibrate and
standardize various experimental techniques to measure film cool-
ing effectiveness and heat transfer coefficients. While the best
film cooling coverage can be obtained by injecting the fluid paral-
lel to the mainstream, manufacturing constraints dictate that holes
be angled. Using film cooling holes perpendicular (90 deg) to the
mainstream, results in very low film cooling effectiveness. The
use of holes inclined at 35 deg typically gives a balance between
film cooling performance and manufacturing ease.
Effect of Coolant-Mainstream Blowing Ratio and Density
Ratio. Blowing ratio (M) is defined as the ratio of the coolant
mass flux to that of the mainstream. In general, regardless of hole-
shape and angle, film cooling effectiveness is found to increase
with blowing ratio at low blowing ratios (less than 0.5). However,
beyond a critical blowing ratio, film cooling effectiveness is found
to decline. This decline can be attributed to the phenomenon of
film-cooling lift-off from boundary layers, wherein the high mo-
mentum film-cooling jet fails to attach with the plate surface and
penetrates into the mainstream reported by Goldstein et al. [50]
and Pedersen et al. [51]. The coolant to mainstream density ratio
(DR) in modern gas-turbine engines is typically around 2.0 due to
the coolant temperature being significantly lower than hot main-
stream. Scaled down laboratory tests (to simulate engine DR con-
ditions) usually involve chilling the coolant to very low
temperatures by Sinha et al. [52] or using a foreign gas with a
higher density by Goldstein et al. [50], Pedersen et al. [51], and
Ekkad et al. [53]. In general, increasing DR at a given M results in
a higher effectiveness, especially at higher blowing ratios, since
the momentum of a high density coolant is lower at a given M,
there is a lower tendency to lift-off.
Effect of Hole Exit Shape and Geometry. Injecting the film
coolant at an angle to the mainstream (a compound angle), results
in higher film cooling effectiveness due to greater lateral diffusion
of the coolant. Compound angled configurations are also found to
resist to lift-off more than simple angled configurations by Ekkad
et al. [53]. Using shaped film cooling holes (with a fan shaped
diffuser on the blade surface) results in a lower tendency to lift
off due to the reduction in momentum due to the increase cross-
sectional area for the coolant by Goldstein et al. [50], Schmidt
et al. [54], and Gritsch et al. [55]. The converging slot-hole (or
console) provides the same level of cooling effectiveness as that
of the slot or the fan shaped-hole by Sargison et al. [56]. Embed-
ding film cooling holes in slots by Bunker [57], trenches by Waye
and Bogard [58], and craters by Lu et al. [59] (to simulate thermal
barrier coating sprays) has been found to increase film cooling
effectiveness in the proximity of the hole.
Effect of Multiple Rows. Multiple rows of film cooling holes
are conventionally used in turbine blade designs. Ligrani et al.
[60] studied typical distributions with both simple and compound
angles. At lower blowing ratios (less than 0.5), the effects of the
numbers of rows is fairly insignificant. However, on increasing
the blowing ratio, the double jet row showed a higher effective-
ness. More recently, Kusterer et al. [61] studied two rows of film
cooling holes with opposite orientation and internal supply geo-
metries. These holes resulted in higher film cooling effectiveness
by canceling out the counter-rotating ‘kidney’ vortices (which
are induced by the interaction of the inclined jet with the
mainstream). Dhungel et al. [62] presented measurements of film
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cooling effectiveness using film cooling holes supplemented with
special anti-vortex holes to increase the effectiveness.
Turbine Vane Film Cooling. It is well known that nozzle
guide vanes, being just downstream of the combustor exit, experi-
ence the hottest gas path temperatures. The vanes also experience
high free-stream turbulence caused by combustor mixing flows.
Depending on the requirements, vanes are cooled internally and
some coolant is ejected out as film cooling. A typical film cooled
vane is shown in Fig. 1. Nirmalan and Hylton [63] studied the
effects of parameters such as Mach number, Reynolds number,
coolant-to-gas temperature ratio, and coolant-to-gas pressure ratio
on the C3X vane film cooling. The leading edge has a showerhead
array of five equally spaced rows with the central row located at
the aerodynamic stagnation point. Two rows each on the pressure
and suction surfaces are located downstream. With increasing
blowing strength, the effect on the pressure surface increases far-
ther downstream and the suction surface shows higher effective-
ness due to favorable curvature. Ames [64] studied film cooling
on a similar C3X vane. Turbulence (Tu ¼ 1–12%) was found to
have a dramatic influence on pressure surface film cooling effec-
tiveness, particularly at the lower blowing ratios. Turbulence was
found to substantially reduce film cooling effectiveness levels pro-
duced by showerhead film cooling. Drost and Bolcs [65] found
that mainstream turbulence (Tu ¼ 5.5–10%) had only a weak
influence on suction surface film cooling. Higher film effective-
ness was noted on the pressure surface at high turbulence due to
increased lateral spreading of the coolant. Ethridge et al. [66]
studied the effect of coolant-to-mainstream density ratio on a vane
with high curvature. Dittmar et al. [67] studied different film cool-
ing hole configurations on the suction (convex) surface and con-
cluded that shaped holes provide better coverage at higher
blowing ratios by resisting jet penetration into the mainstream.
Turbine Blade Film Cooling. A typical film cooled blade is
shown in Fig. 1. Most experimental results for turbine blades are
obtained on simulated cascades under simulated engine condi-
tions. Ito et al. [68] studied the effect of surface curvature and
found that film cooling effectiveness is relatively subdued on the
concave (pressure) side in comparison with the convex (suction)
side, with the flat plate effectiveness values lying in between.
Lift-off occurs at a lower blowing ratio on the concave side. How-
ever, the curvature of the concave surface results in a reattach-
ment of the lifted-off coolant on the pressure side, resulting in
higher downstream effectiveness.
Effect of Unsteady Wake and Secondary Flow. A rotating
spoke-wheel wake generator installed upstream of a typical high
pressure film cooled model turbine blade has been to simulate the
effect of an upstream wake by Mehandale et al. [69]. A reduction
in film cooling effectiveness due to the unsteady wake was
observed across the board. The effect of coolant to mainstream
density ratio and an unsteady stator wake was studied by Ralla-
bandi et al. [70] using the pressure sensitive paint method. Foreign
gases with variable density (Nitrogen for DR ¼ 1.0, CO2 for
DR ¼ 1.5 and a mixture of Ar þ SF6 for DR ¼ 2.5) were used to
simulate realistic engine density ratios. Results show a longer
coolant trace on the suction side compared with the pressure side.
Due to the concave geometry of the pressure side, at higher blow-
ing ratios, a reattachment of the lifted off jet is observed. An
increase in effectiveness at higher density ratios for a given blow-
ing ratio is observed as well as deterioration in film cooling effec-
tiveness due to the average effect of the unsteady wake. Gao et al.
[71] used the pressure sensitive paint method to characterize full
coverage film cooling on the blade surface equipped with axial
laid-back fan-shaped holes (expansion and diffusion angles of
10 deg) and another with compound angled laid-back fan-shaped
holes. The compound angled holes, in general, resulted in a higher
film cooling effectiveness than the axial holes. The effects of tip
leakage vortices and horseshoe vortices on the film coolant
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 flow-path can be seen. These vortices result in an expansion of the
film coolant on the pressure side, and a contraction of the coolant
trace on the suction side.
Leading-Edge Film Cooling. A large semicylinder is conven-
tionally used as a good approximation to the stagnation region on
a turbine vane. Initial studies into film cooling effectiveness near
the leading edge were performed by Luckey et al. [72]. Ekkad
et al. [73] presented the effect of coolant density and free-stream
turbulence on a cylindrical leading edge model using a transient
liquid crystal technique to obtain the detailed film effectiveness
distributions. They showed that the film cooling effectiveness val-
ues for air as the coolant are highest at a low blowing ratio of 0.4
and decrease with an increase in blowing ratio up to 1.2. In the
meantime, for CO2 as the coolant, the highest film cooling effec-
tiveness is obtained at a blowing ratio greater than 0.8. Gao and
Han [74] reported showerhead film cooling effectiveness measure-
ments using pressure sensitive paint method for a cylindrical lead-
ing edge model. Leading edges with up to seven rows of radial
and compound angled shaped and cylindrical holes were studied
for blowing ratios studied range from 0.5 to 2.0 with DR ¼ 1.0,
Tu ¼ 7%. Results showed that radial angles performed better than
compound angles; shaped holes performed better than cylindrical
holes for the range studied.
End-Wall Film Cooling. Due to the large difference in pres-
sure between the pressure and suction side of the blade, secondary
vortices are formed in the hub end wall region by Langston [39]
as shown in Fig. 3(b). These vortices increase heat transfer, neces-
sitating provisions for aggressive film-cooling of the end wall. To
achieve this end, film coolant is typically ejected from the
combustor-vane gap and the stator-rotor gap to cool the NGV end
wall and rotor blade platform, respectively. Besides this, engine
designs also incorporate discrete film cooling holes along the end
wall and platform. Friedrichs et al. [75] used an innovative
ammonia-diazo mass transfer analogy to measure film cooling
effectiveness on the end wall due to discrete holes. The effective-
ness corresponding to the film coolant discharged through the
combustor-stator gap has been studied by Oke et al. [76] and
Zhang and Jaiswal [77]. The additional momentum introduced in
the near wall region by the slot coolant tends to reduce the
strength of the secondary flows. More recently, the improvement
in film cooling due to the usage of shaped holes in the end wall
has been studied by Colban et al. [78] and Gao et al. [79]. Results
show that shaped holes offer significantly better coverage than cy-
lindrical holes. The effect of hub secondary flows (horseshoe vor-
tices, etc.) on film cooling is evident from the film cooling
effectiveness contours. The effect of coolant density ratio on film
cooling effectiveness was studied by Narzary et al. [80], with the
conclusion that higher density coolants are more resilient to lift-
off and result in higher film cooling effectiveness.
Blade-Tip Film Cooling. Film cooling on the blade tip has a
dual purpose-to protect the tip by forming an insulating film, and
to reduce hot-gas tip leakage from pressure side to the suction
side, reducing heat transfer coefficients on the tip. A review of the
work done on tip-gap film cooling by Metzger’s group is available
in Kim et al. [81]. More recently, Kwak and Han [82] used liquid
crystal imaging technique to measure detailed film cooling effec-
tiveness contours on the squealer tip with tip hole cooling. In gen-
eral, the literature agrees that a higher blowing ratio and a smaller
tip clearance result in better film cooling performance. Mhetras
et al. [33] used a model rotor blade with a cut-back squealer tip to
allow the film coolant accumulated on the tip to discharge, in the
process cooling the trailing edge region of the tip, as shown in
Fig. 4 [33]. Results (using the pressure sensitive paint method)
show that for the tip film cooling holes, the effectiveness increases
with blowing ratio. The cutback allows the coolant to flow
over the trailing edge region, resulting in higher effectiveness.
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A blowing ratio of 1.0 seems optimal for the holes on the near-tip
region of the pressure side, indicating that liftoff occurs at higher
blowing ratios.
Trailing-Edge Film Cooling. A comprehensive survey of film
cooling investigations prior to 1971 was done by Goldstein [3]
and included data for slots as well as discrete holes. Emphasis was
on two-dimensional slots. Taslim et al. [83] found that the lip-to-
slot height ratio has a strong impact on film cooling effectiveness.
Martini et al. [84] measured the film cooling effectiveness and
heat transfer on the trailing edge cutback of gas turbine airfoils
with different internal cooling structures using the IR thermogra-
phy method, showing the strong impact of internal design on the
film cooling performance downstream of the ejection slot. The
fast decay in film cooling effectiveness was attributed to vortex
shedding from the pressure side lip. Recently, Cakan and Taslim
[85] measured the mass/heat transfer coefficients on the trailing
edge slot floor, slot sidewalls and lands using naphthalene subli-
mation method. They found that averaged mass-transfer on the
land sidewalls are higher than that on the slot floor surface. Choi
et al. [86] measured film cooling effectiveness values for different
internal cooling configurations on a cut-back trailing edge using
the transient liquid crystal method.
Effect of Thermal Barrier Coating Spallation. Thermal bar-
rier coatings (TBC) are often used to protect turbine component
metal surfaces from high temperature gases. The spallation can
occur at random; that there is no defined shape or size of the spall
makes it difficult to analyze the actual spallation phenomena
occurring on a real turbine blade. Thus, it needs to be modeled
with predefined shape, size, and location to understand its effect
on local heat transfer coefficients and film cooling effectiveness.
Ekkad and Han [87] studied the detailed heat transfer coefficient
and film cooling effectiveness distributions on a cylindrical
leading-edge model with simulated TBC spallation using a tran-
sient liquid crystal technique. The two rows of film cooling holes
located at þ 15 deg and 15 deg from stagnation. The simulated
spallation cavities were rectangular in shape and had rounded
edges and are similar to the spallation that typically occur on the
turbine blade. In general, presence of spallation enhances heat
transfer coefficients and causes variation in film cooling effective-
ness distributions.
Effect of Deposition and Blockage on Hole Exits. Bunker
[57] presented an experimental study to determine the effects of
typical turbine airfoil protective coatings on film cooling effec-
tiveness due to the partial blockage of film-hole exits by the TBC
coatings. The measurements indicated significant degradation to
film performance can result from coatings which are deposited in
the hole-exit regions, or inside the holes themselves, during the
spray application process. Results also show that shaped film
holes are generally very tolerant of coatings and do not show the
degradation shown for cylindrical holes. Sundaram and Thole
[88] used a large-scale turbine vane cascade to study endwall film
cooling. They showed that partially blocked holes had the greatest
detrimental effect on degrading film-cooling effectiveness down-
stream of a film-cooling row. Somawardhana and Bogard [89]
indicated that as much as 50% degradation occurred with
upstream obstructions, but downstream obstructions actually
enhanced film cooling effectiveness. The transverse trench config-
uration performed significantly better than the traditional cylindri-
cal holes, both with and without obstructions and almost
eliminated the effects of both surface roughness and obstructions.
Ai et al. [90] performed particulate deposition experiments in a
turbine accelerated deposition facility to examine the effects of fly
ash particle size and trench configuration on deposits near film
cooling holes. Deposits that accumulated on the downstream side
of the trench between cooling holes eventually changed the geom-
etry of the trench and clogging cooling holes.
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culty of acquiring data on a rotating blade, literature studying the
effect of rotation is very scarce. Dring et al. [91] reported film
cooling effectiveness in a rotating configuration in a low speed
tunnel. Takeishi et al. [92] also studied film cooling effectiveness
on a stator-rotor stage, simulating a heavy duty gas turbine.
Measured effectiveness values on the suction side for the rotating
turbine blade seemed to match the data from the stationary cas-
cade whereas the rotating effectiveness on the pressure side
seemed to be significantly lower than the nonrotating case. Effects
of rotation are attributed to the deflection of the film cooling jet
due to centrifugal forces. Abhari and Epstein [93] reported film
cooling heat transfer coefficients by the superposition method on
the short-duration MIT blowdown turbine facility using heat flux
gauges. Time resolved heat transfer coefficient data was obtained-
and the benefit of using film cooling on the blade surface is
evident.
More recently, using the PSP method, film cooling effective-
ness values under rotating conditions were measured on the lead-
ing edge by Ahn et al. [94], and on the rotor platform by
Suryanarayanan et al. [95], using a three stage multipurpose
research turbine at the Turbomachinery Performance and Flow
Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University. Ahn et al. [94]
used two rows of showerhead holes, one on the suction side and
the other on the pressure side. Results (using pressure sensitive
paint method) showed that the film cooling effectiveness was sen-
sitive to the location of the stagnation line. When running at
design condition, the stagnation line was such that coolant would
be uniformly dispersed onto the suction and pressure sides. The
effect of rotation on the film cooling effectiveness on the end wall
was studied by Suryanarayanan et al. [95] due to coolant dis-
charged rotor-stator purge slot and discrete holes under rotating
conditions. Results indicated that a blowing ratio of around 1.0
was optimal. Film cooling coverage was also found to be optimal
when running at design condition. Also evident are the effects of
the passage vortex, as can be seen by the angle of the film coolant
traces.
Gas Turbine Internal Cooling
Fundamentals of Internal Cooling. The gas turbine blades
are convectively cooled with compressor bled air passing through
the complex shaped internal cooling channels. These channels are
specifically designed to fit the blade profile and have irregular
cross sections (Figs. 1 and 2). Since the design of these channels
varies from blade to blade, and increased complexities of the flow
field are introduced by irregular cross sectional shapes, research-
ers have mostly used square and rectangular channels as models
in the study of heat transfer. The square and rectangular channels
are categorized by aspect ratio, as seen in Fig. 5 [96]. In this
review paper, the channel aspect ratio (AR) is defined as the ratio
of the channel width (W) to the channel height (H) or AR ¼ W/H.
Furthermore, the channel height is the distance from the suction
surface to pressure surface as seen in Fig. 5. The channel width is
the dimension of the surface on which the rib turbulators are cast.
Another point of clarification is in regard to the distinction
between “leading edge,” “leading surface,” “trailing edge,” and
“trailing surface.” Commonly, the phrase leading surface has been
used interchangeably with suction side/surface. Likewise, trailing
surface is interchangeable with the pressure side/surface.
The internal cooling channels near the blade leading edge have
been modeled as narrow rectangular channels with AR ¼ 1:4 and
1:2. The cross section of the cooling channels changes along the
cord length of the blade due to the blade profile. In the middle of
the blade, the channels are square in shape. Towards the trailing
edge, the channels have wider aspect ratios of AR ¼ 2:1 and 4:1.
An experimental study on the effects of the buoyancy parameter
in various aspect ratio channels was performed by Fu et al. [96].
The study considered five different aspect ratio channels
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Fig. 5 Typical turbine blade internal cooling channel with
rotation-induced vortices [96]
(AR ¼ 1:4, 1:2, 1:1, 2:1, and 4:1) with a fully developed flow inlet
condition. The results showed that the overall levels of heat trans-
fer enhancement (Nu/Nuo) for all the ribbed channels were com-
parable. However, significant differences arose in the pressure
losses incurred in each of the channels. The 1:4 channel incurred
the lowest pressure penalty; therefore, the thermal performance
(TP) of the 1:4 channel was superior to the 1:2, 1:1, and 2:1
channels. It is worth noting that the thermal performance takes
into account the pressure penalty (f/fo) and the heat transfer
enhancement, and for a constant pumping power, TP ¼ (Nu/Nuo)/
(f/fo)1/3. Many papers reviewed and cited in chapters 4 and 5 of
Han et al. [10].
Mid-Chord Rib Turbulated Cooling. In advanced gas turbine
blades, rib turbulators are often cast on two opposite walls of in-
ternal coolant passages to augment heat transfer as seen in Fig.
2(b) [2]. Rib turbulators are also widely known as “trip strips” as
they simply trip the boundary layer in the internal cooling chan-
nel. The heat transfer augmentation in rectangular coolant pas-
sages with rib turbulators primarily depends upon the rib
turbulators’ geometry, such as rib size, shape, distribution, flow-
attack-angle, and the flow Reynolds number. There have been
many basic studies by Han et al. [97–99] to understand the heat
transfer augmentation versus the pressure drop penalty by the flow
separation caused by rib-turbulators. The Reynolds numbers based
on coolant channel hydraulic diameter vary from 10,000 to
80,000. However, the Reynolds numbers can be up to 500,000 for
the coolant passages in large power generation turbine blades. In
general, repeated ribs, used for coolant passages, are nearly square
in cross section with a typical relative rib height of 5–10% of the
coolant channel hydraulic diameter (e/D), a rib spacing-to-height
ratio (p/e) varying from 5 to 15, and a rib flow-attack-angle
around 30 deg to 60 deg.
In general, smaller rib height is more efficient for higher Reyn-
olds number flows, and the heat transfer enhancement decreases
but pressure drop penalty increases with the Reynolds number.
For example, the heat transfer can be enhanced about three times
with five times the pressure drop penalty in a square channel with
typical rib geometry (e/D ¼ 0.06, p/e ¼ 10, and 45 deg rib flow-
attack-angle) at a Reynolds number around 30,000. Han and
Zhang [100] showed that the V-shaped ribs provide better heat
transfer performance than the typical angled rib geometry for a
given pressure drop penalty. Smaller gas turbine blades have
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 larger blockage ribs with e/D ¼ 0.1  0.2 at closer spacing with
p/e ¼ 3  5 reported by Taslim and Lengkong [101].
Heat Transfer Correlation. More recently, Rallabandi et al.
[102] performed systematic experiments to measure heat transfer
and pressure losses in a stationary square channel with 45 deg
round/sharp edged ribs at a wide range of Reynolds numbers rang-
ing from 30,000 to very high flows of Re ¼ 400,000. These high
Reynolds are typical of land based turbines. The correlations of
Han and Park [99] were modified to fit into the new extended
parameter range. This work has extended the eþ (a nondimen-
sional roughness Reynolds number) range of previous work from
eþ ¼ 1,000 (Re ¼ 70,000, e/D ¼ 0.078) to eþ ¼ 18,000
(Re ¼ 400,000, e/D ¼ 0.18). With round edged ribs, the friction
was lower, resulting in a smaller pressure drop. The heat transfer
coefficients for the round ribs, on the other hand, were similar to
sharp edged ribs.
Rotational Effect on Internal Passage Flow and Heat
Transfer. Rotation induces Coriolis and centrifugal forces which
produce cross-stream secondary flow in the rotating coolant
passages; therefore, heat transfer coefficients in rotor coolant pas-
sages are very much different from those in nonrotating frames.
One important finding from recent studies is that rotation can
greatly enhance heat transfer on one side of the cooling channel
and reduce heat transfer on the opposite side of the cooling chan-
nel due to rotating-induced secondary flow, depending on the ra-
dial outflow or inflow of the cooling passages (Fig. 5). Without
considering rotational effect, the coolant passage would be
overcooled on one side while overheated on the opposite side.
Recent studies focus on the combined effects of rotation, channel
shape, orientation, and aspect ratio on rotor coolant passage heat
transfer with various high performance rib turbulators. Results
show that the channel shape, orientation, and aspect ratio signifi-
cantly change local heat transfer coefficient distributions in rotor
coolant passages with rib turbulators.
Fluid Flow in Rotating Coolant Passages. Heat transfer is a
side effect of the flow field. Flow in a rotating channel is signifi-
cantly different from flow in a nonrotating channel. The secondary
flow in rotation redistributes velocity and also alters the random
velocity fluctuation patterns in turbulent flows. Cheah et al. [103]
used the LDA to measure velocity and turbulence quantity in a
rotating two-pass channel. Bons and Kerrebrock [104] measured
the internal flow in a rotating straight smooth-wall channel with
particle image velocimetry (PIV) for both heated and nonheated
cases. Liou et al. [105] measured pressure and flow characteristics
in a rotating two-pass square duct with 90-deg ribs by using the
LAD. Rotation shifts the bulk flow toward the trailing side, and
the turbulence profile shows a different distribution in rotation.
The above-mentioned flow measurements help to understand the
flow physics and serve to explain the heat transfer results obtained
in two-pass rotating channels with smooth and ribbed walls.
Square Cross-Section Serpentine Channel. Heat transfer in
rotating multipass coolant passages with square cross section and
smooth walls was reported by Wagner et al. [106]. Results show
that the heat transfer coefficient can enhance 2–3 times on the
trailing surface and reduce up to 50% on the leading surface for
the first-pass radial outward flow passage; however, the reverse is
true for the second-pass radial inward flow passage due to the
flow direction change. Results also show that the heat transfer dif-
ference between leading and trailing surfaces is greater in the
first-pass than that in the second-pass due to the centrifugal buoy-
ancy opposite to the flow direction. Heat transfer in rotating multi-
pass coolant passages with square cross section with 45 deg rib
turbulated walls was reported by Johnson et al. [107]. Results
show that rotation and buoyancy in general have less effect on the
rib turbulated coolant passage than on the smooth-wall coolant
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passage. This is because the heat transfer enhancement in the
ribbed passages is already up to 3.5 times higher than in
the smooth passages; therefore, the rotational effect is still impor-
tant but with a reduced percentage. Results also show that, like a
nonrotating channel, the 45 deg ribs perform better than 90 deg
ribs and subsequently better than the smooth channel.
Wall Heating Condition Effect. Since the temperature differ-
ence between the coolant and the channel walls varies along the
coolant passages, so does the rotation buoyancy. Therefore, it is
expected that the channel wall heating conditions would affect
rotor coolant passage heat transfer. Han et al. [108] studied the
uneven wall temperature effect on rotating two-pass square chan-
nels with smooth walls. They concluded that in the first pass, the
local uneven wall temperature interacts with the Coriolis force-
driven secondary flow and enhances the heat transfer coefficients
in both leading and trailing surfaces as compared with the uniform
wall temperature case. Zhang et al. [109] studied the influence of
wall heating condition on the local heat transfer coefficient in
rotating two-pass square channels with 90 deg ribs and 60 deg ribs
on the leading and trailing walls, respectively. They concluded
that the uneven wall temperature significantly enhances heat trans-
fer coefficients on the first-pass leading and second-pass trailing
surfaces as compared with the uniform wall temperature
condition.
Channel Orientation Effect. Since the turbine blade is
curved, the rotor blade cooling passage can have different channel
orientations with respect to the rotating plane. Johnson et al. [110]
studied the effects of rotation on the heat transfer for smooth and
45 deg ribbed serpentine channels with channel orientations of
0 deg and 45 deg to the axis of rotation. They found that the
effects of Coriolis and buoyancy forces on heat transfer in the
rotating channel are decreased with the channel at 45 deg com-
pared to the results at 0 deg. This implies that the difference in
heat transfer coefficient between leading and trailing surfaces due
to rotation will be reduced when the channel has an angle to the
axis of rotation. Dutta and Han [111] used high performance bro-
ken V-shaped ribs in rotating two-pass square channels to study
the effect of channel orientation on heat transfer. The channel ori-
entation with respect to the rotation axis influences the secondary
flow vortices induced by rotation, as shown in Fig. 5. They con-
cluded that the broken V-shaped ribs are better than the 60 deg
angled ribs; the parallel 45 deg angled ribs are better than the
crossed 45 deg angled ribs. In general, the difference between
leading and trailing wall heat transfer coefficients is reduced for
the channel with a 45 deg angle to the axis of rotation.
Rotation Number and Buoyancy Parameter. It is worth-
while, then, to develop nondimensional parameters that may be
used to correlate rotating effects to heat transfer. The rotation
number (Ro) has been widely accepted to establish the strength of
rotation by considering the relative strength of the Coriolis force
compared to the bulk inertial force. As such, the rotation number
is defined as Ro ¼ XDh/V. The buoyancy parameter (Bo) is useful
to include the effects of density variation (centrifugal effects) and
is defined as the ratio of the Grashoff number to the square of the
Reynolds number; both of which are based on the channel hydrau-
lic diameter. Thus Bo ¼ (Dq/q)(Ro2)(R/Dh). Typical rotation
numbers for aircraft engines are near 0.25 with Reynolds numbers
in the range of 30,000. One method to achieve conditions similar
to a real gas turbine engine in the laboratory is to use air at high
pressures. As the pressure of the air increases, so will the density.
For a fixed Reynolds number, dynamic viscosity, and hydraulic
diameter, an increase in density will proportionately decrease the
bulk velocity. A lower bulk velocity will in turn increase the rota-
tion number since the rotation number is the ratio of the Coriolis
force to bulk inertial force. Increasing the range of the rotation
number and buoyancy parameter is very important since gas
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heat transfer under rotating conditions.
Rectangular Cross-Section Two-Pass Channel. Zhou and
Acharya [112] studied a 4:1 aspect ratio channel with a rotation
number of 0.6 at a Reynolds number of 10,000. Huh et al. [113]
increased the range of the rotation number by a factor of 4 for the
AR ¼ 2:1 channel. Huh et al. [114] studied heat transfer in a 1:4
aspect ratio channel (Fig. 5). Results show that heat transfer on
the trailing surface with radially outward flow does indeed
increase under rotating conditions due to the flow phenomena pre-
viously described. Rotation reduces the heat transfer on the lead-
ing surface by a very significant 50%. However, due to buoyancy
effects, the leading surface heat transfer trends reverse after a crit-
ical rotation number is reached. With radially inward flow, the
heat transfer in the smooth channel shows the expected behavior
on the leading wall. Surprisingly, however, due to the aspect ratio
of the channel, the heat transfer on the trailing wall also increases.
In square channels this is not the case.
Blade Tip Internal Cooling. A gas turbine blade experiences
high heat loads on the tip portion due to high velocity fluid leak-
age between the rotating blade and casing. Until recently, most of
the studies that have considered heat transfer in multipass internal
serpentine channels provided minimal information on heat trans-
fer on the inside of the blade tip. Even fewer studies are available
that consider the effect of rotation on blade tip cap heat transfer.
The effects of rotation on tip cap internal heat transfer in rectangu-
lar channels with AR ¼ 2:1 was presented in the study by Huh
et al. [113] and Huh et al. [114], which provided heat transfer
results on the tip cap of the 1:4 aspect ratio channel. Results reveal
that rotation helps to increase cooling of the blade tip internal sur-
face. Rotation doubles the heat transfer coefficients on the tip cap
surface in both passages.
Developing Flow Entrance Effect. Some gas turbine blade
designs provide a developing flow entrance. It is well accepted
that due to the thin boundary layer, heat transfer with developing
flow is markedly different from fully developed flows. Wright
et al. [115] performed experiments in channels with three different
entrance geometries. They concluded that the entrance condition
will enhance the heat transfer. They also pointed out that the
effect of the entrance weakens as the rotation number increases.
The influence of the entrance geometry also is stronger in the
smooth channel when compared to the ribbed channel. Huh et al.
[113] studied a sudden expansion from a circular tube to the rec-
tangular cross section of the channel. Notable is the lack of degra-
dation in heat transfer, until large Bo values, on the leading
surface for the developing flow cases. Heat transfer is clearly
dominated by the entrance.
Leading-Edge Impingement Cooling. Jet impingement cool-
ing is most suitable for the leading edge of the blade where the
thermal load is highest and a thicker cross section of this portion
of the blade can suitably accommodate impingement cooling
(Figs. 1 and 2). There are many studies focused on the effects of
jet-hole size and distribution, jet-to-target surface distance, spent-
air cross flow, cooling channel cross section, and the target
surface shape on the heat transfer coefficient distribution (for
example, Chupp et al. [116], Metzger et al. [117], etc.). Recent
studies have considered the combined effects of target surface
roughening coupled with jet impingement for further heat transfer
enhancement. Taslim et al. [118] investigated heat transfer on a
curved target surface to more realistically simulate the leading
edge of the blade. Three different roughening techniques were
studied: conical bumps, tapered radial ribs, and sand paper type
roughness. Kanokjaruvijit and Martinez-Botas [119] showed that
by impinging on the dimple, higher energetic vortices were gener-
ated and thus heat transfer was increased. Since the leading edge
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of the gas turbine blade incorporates a showerhead film cooling
design, Taslim and Khanicheh [120] showed that the heat transfer
can be significantly increased by including the film cooling holes
on the target plate.
Rotational Effect on Impingement Cooling. All of the stud-
ies previously mentioned considered jet impingement heat transfer
under stationary conditions. Of course, however, the turbine blade
is rotating. Overall, the effectiveness of the jet is reduced under
rotating conditions due to deflection from the target surface.
Epstein et al. [121] studied the effect of rotation on impingement
cooling in the leading edge of a blade. They reported that the rota-
tion decreases the impingement heat transfer, but the effective
heat transfer is better than a smooth rotating channel. Mattern and
Hennecke [122] reported the effect of rotation on the leading edge
impingement cooling by using the naphthalene sublimation tech-
nique. They found that the rotation decreases the impingement
heat transfer for all staggered angles. Glezer et al. [123] studied
the effect of rotation on swirling impingement cooling in the lead-
ing edge of a blade. They found that screw-shaped swirl cooling
can significantly improve the heat-transfer coefficient over a
smooth channel and the improvement is not significantly depend-
ent on the temperature ratio and rotational forces. Parsons et al.
[124] studied the effect of rotation on impingement cooling in the
mid-chord region of the blade. A central chamber serves as the
pressure chamber, and jets are released in either direction to
impinge on two heated surfaces. The jet impinging directions
have different orientations with respect to the direction of rotation.
They reported that the rotation decreases the impingement heat
transfer on both leading and trailing surfaces with more effect on
the trailing side (up to 20% heat transfer reduction).
Trailing-Edge Pin Fins Cooling. Pin-fins are mostly used in
the narrow trailing edge of a turbine blade where impingement
and ribbed channels cannot be accommodated due to manufactur-
ing constraint (Figs. 1 and 2). Pin-fins commonly used in turbine
blade cooling have pin height-to-diameter ratio between 12 and 4.
Heat transfer in turbine pin-fin cooling arrays combines the cylinder
heat transfer and end wall heat transfer. Due to the turbulence
enhancement caused by pins (wakes and horseshoe vortex), heat
transfer from end-walls is higher than smooth wall cases; however,
casting pins will cover a considerable end wall area, and that area
needs to be compensated for by the increased pin surface area for
cooling. In addition to flow disturbances, pins conduct thermal
energy away from the end wall surface. Long pins can increase the
effective heat transfer area and perform better than short pins. There
have been many investigations that studied the effects of pin array
(inline or staggered), pin size (length-to-diameter ratio ¼ 0.5 to 4),
pin distribution (streamwise-and spanwise-to-diameter ratio ¼ 2 to
4), pin shape (with and without a fillet at the base of the cylindrical
pin; oblong, cube, and diamond shaped pins as well as the stepped di-
ameter cylindrical pins), partial length pins, flow convergence and
turning, and with trailing edge coolant extraction on the heat transfer
coefficient and friction factor distributions in pin-fin cooling channels
(for example, Metzger et al. [125], Chyu et al. [126], etc.)
Rotational Effect on Pin Fins Cooling. Wright et al. [127]
studied the effect of rotation on heat transfer in narrow rectangular
channels (AR ¼ 4:1 and 8:1) with typical pin-fin array used in tur-
bine blade trailing edge design and oriented at 150 deg with
respect to the plane of rotation. Results show that turbulent heat
transfer in a stationary pin-fin channel can be enhanced up to 3.8
times that of a smooth channel; rotation enhances the heat trans-
ferred from the pin-fin channels up to 1.5 times that of the station-
ary pin-fin channels. Most importantly, for narrow rectangular
pin-fin channels oriented at 135 deg with respect to the plane of
rotation, heat transfer enhancement on both the leading and trail-
ing surfaces increases with rotation. This provides positive infor-
mation for the cooling designers.
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 Rotational Effect on Wedge-Shaped Cooling Channel. The
trailing edge cooling passage has been represented with wide as-
pect rectangular channels. However, the cross sectional shape is
best represented with a wedge or trapezoid. To enhance heat trans-
fer in this region of the blade, the leading and trailing surfaces are
roughened with ribs or pin-fins. Further protection is provided
with coolant ejection from the narrow portion of the channel
(Fig. 5), and the additional effects of Coriolis induced secondary
flows and centrifugal driven buoyancy alter the heat transfer char-
acteristics. Chang et al. [128] studied heat transfer in rib rough-
ened trapezoidal duct with bleed holes. Liu et al. [129] considered
heat transfer in a trailing edge cooling passage with smooth walls
with trailing edge slot ejection. The channel was placed at an angle
of 135 deg respective of the direction of rotation. Most notably, for
all three surfaces, the Nusselt number ratios increase as the rotation
number increases. The heat transfer enhancement with slot ejection
is much higher than the cases without slot ejection. Rallabandi
et al. [130] studied the effect of full length conducting, partial
length conducting and nonconducting pins in a wedge-shaped chan-
nel with trailing edge bleeding. The rotational effects were altered
in different regions by the presence of the pins.
Rotational Effect on Dimples Cooling. Dimples are recently
being considered for turbine blade trailing edge cooling designs.
Dimples provide reasonable heat transfer enhancement with a rel-
atively low pressure loss penalty as compared with the ribs and
pin-fins. The dimple cooling can be a good choice if the pressure
loss is the main concern in the cooling design. Due to the disturb-
ance enhancement caused by dimples, heat transfer from dimpled
surface is higher than the smooth wall conditions. This is because
dimples induce flow separation and reattachment with pairs of
vortices. In addition to flow disturbances, dimples increase heat
transfer area. In general, higher heat transfer enhancement occurs
on the flow reattached regions either at the dimple cavity down-
stream or on the dimple downstream flat surface. The heat transfer
enhancement is typically around 2–2.5 times that of the smooth
wall value with 2–4 times pressure loss penalty and is fairly inde-
pendent of Reynolds number and channel height or aspect ratio.
There have been a number of studies that evaluated the effects of
dimple size, dimple depth (depth-to-print diameter ratio ¼ 0.1 to
0.3), distribution, shape (cylindrical, hemispheric, and teardrop),
and channel height on the heat transfer coefficient and friction fac-
tor distributions in dimple cooling channels (for example, Mah-
mood et al. [131], etc.). However, the majority of investigations
involving dimple cooling have been limited to stationary channels
that are applicable for stator blade trailing edge cooling designs;
only a few studies focus on rotor blade dimple cooling. Zhou and
Acharya [132] studied heat/mass transfer in a rotating square
channel with typical dimple array. They found that rotation enhan-
ces heat transfer on the trailing dimple surface and reduces heat
transfer on the leading dimple surface in a similar manner as the
rotational effect on the trailing and leading surfaces of the square
channel with ribs. Griffith et al. [133] studied heat transfer in
rotating rectangular channels (AR ¼ 4:1) with typical dimple
array. The results show that rotation enhances heat transfer on
both trailing and leading surfaces of the narrow dimpled channel
in a similar trend as the rotational effect on the trailing and lead-
ing surfaces of the narrow rectangular channel with pins; how-
ever, the heat transfer enhancement of the pinned channel exceeds
that of the dimpled channel. Additionally, the dimpled channel
oriented at 135 deg with respect to the plane of rotation provides
greater overall heat transfer enhancement than the orthogonal
dimpled channel.
Numerical Modeling
CFD for Turbine Internal Cooling. In recent years, many
researchers have made computational studies on internal cooling
channels of the rotating blade. Numerical predictions provide the
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details that are difficult to obtain by experiments. Moreover, the
increase in computation power in desktop computers has made it
economical to optimize the design parameters based on numerical
analyses. Most common models are based on a two-equation tur-
bulence model; namely, the k–e model, low Reynolds number k–e
model, the two-layer k–e model, and the low Reynolds number
k–x model. The Reynolds averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) and
large–eddy simulations (LES) are the most commonly used simu-
lation methods for turbine blade internal flow and heat transfer
predictions. Direct numerical simulation (DNS) is to solve every
flow in detail. The extremely small grid spacing and time incre-
ments makes this type of simulations extremely expensive in
terms of time and computational resources. Jang et al. [134]
employed Reynolds stress turbulence model to predict the flow
and heat transfer in turbine blade cooling passage with rib turbula-
tors. They concluded the second moment solutions display large
anisotropy in turbulent stress and heat flux distributions. With
rotation, the Coriolis and buoyancy forces result in strong noniso-
tropic turbulence flows. Viswanathan and Tafti [135] present the
large eddy simulations (LES) of flow and heat transfer in rotating
square duct with 45 deg rib turbulators. The unsteady temperature
field in periodic domain is computed directly. The authors observe
that the large scale vortices play a major role in the mixing of the
core fluid and the near-wall heated fluid, the vortex shedding
behind the ribs are responsible for the large spike in the energy
spectrum, and the time variation of the flow rate is attributed to
the variation dominated by the vortex shedding frequency.
CFD for Turbine Film Cooling. It is difficult to model turbine
blade with film cooling due to the complicated flow phenomena
coupling with heat transfer process. Turbulence is resolved by dif-
ferent CFD methods, including RANS, URANS, LES, DNS, etc.
Although most of the models have good agreements with experi-
mental results, the accuracy still needs to be further improved.
Generally, unsteady models perform better than steady models. In
this section, numerical simulations of film cooling from a few
selected papers are mentioned. Voigt et al. [136] performed
detailed comparison and validation of RANS, URANS, and SAS
Simulations on flat plate film cooling. Five different turbulence
models are used to simulate the flat plate film-cooling process.
The models include three steady and two unsteady methods. The
steady RANS methods are the Shear stress transport (SST) model
of Menter, the Reynolds stress model of Speziale, Sarkar, and
Gatski and a k–e explicit algebraic Reynolds stress model. The
unsteady models are a URANS formulation of the SST model and
a scale-adaptive simulation (SAS). The solver used in this study is
the commercial code ANSYS CFX 11.0. The results are compared to
available experimental data. These data include velocity and tur-
bulence intensity fields in several planes. Results show that the
steady RANS approach has difficulties with predicting the flow
field due to the highly three-dimensional unsteadiness. The
URANS and SAS simulations on the other hand show good agree-
ments with the experimental data. The deviation from the experi-
mental data in velocity values in the steady cases is about 20%
whereas the error in the unsteady cases is below 10%. Leedom
and Acharya [137] presented Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of
film cooling flow fields from cylindrical, laterally diffused, and
console shaped holes. The results show that the console’s per-
formance is superior to the laterally diffused and cylindrical holes
in terms of jet penetration into the cross-flow. The turbulence gen-
erated in the near field of film cooling jets was found to be highly
anisotropic. Sreedharan and Tafti [138] performed a numerical
study to investigate deposition and erosion of Syngas ash in the
leading edge region of a turbine vane. Large Eddy Simulation
(LES) is used to model the flow field of the coolant jet-
mainstream interaction and syngas ash particles are modeled using
a Lagrangian framework. Overall, for particles of size 5 lm, there
is a combined increase in deposition and erosive particles from
16% to 24% as the blowing ratio increases from 0.5 to 2.0. The
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30% as the blowing ratio increases from 0.5 to 2.
CFD for Conjugate Heat Transfer and Film Cooling. Turbine
internal cooling and film cooling are the major cooling techniques
that applied to turbine blades. In both types of cooling, heat is
removed by means of both convection and conduction. Moreover,
convection and conduction are effected from each other. Conju-
gate heat transfer is basically termed as the interaction between
the convection heat transfer from the surrounding fluid and the
conduction heat transfer through the solid body. The conduction
heat transfer is affected from the convection heat transfer of the
surrounding fluid. Thus, they should be solved simultaneously.
This coupling of solid to fluid is usually done by using the same
wall temperature for the adjacent fluid block and solid block.
The conjugate CFD methods provide good predictions for heat
transfer analysis in turbine blades. Eliminating the heat transfer
coefficient calculation by utilizing the relationship between solid
and fluid interface, conjugate methods can provide direct solu-
tions. There is much commercially available software (i.e., ANSYS
FLUENT, ANSYS CFX, STAR CCM, etc.). However, the accuracy of
conjugate methods must be compared with experimental data
and still remains to be improved. For example, Shih et al. [139]
performed an extensive study on the effects of Biot number on
temperature and heat-flux distributions in a TBC-coated flat plate
cooled by rib-enhanced internal cooling. He and Oldfield [140]
conducted a study on modeling effect of hot streak on TBC-
coated turbine vane heat transfer by unsteady conjugate heat
transfer.
Concluding Remarks
Turbine Film Cooling Heat Transfer. For turbine blade exter-
nal cooling, most available experimental data are for the main body
of turbine blade heat transfer and film cooling. Recent research
focuses on unsteady wake, high free-stream turbulence, and surface
roughness/TBC spallation effects on turbine rotor blade heat transfer
with film cooling. To optimize the film cooling performance, effects
of film-hole size, length, spacing, shape, and orientation on turbine
blade heat transfer distributions need to be considered. Satisfying
the even higher turbine operating temperature requirement for
higher power and efficiency makes turbine blade edge cooling an
urgent issue for gas turbine blades. Turbine blade edge cooling and
heat transfer includes turbine blade leading-edge, trailing-edge, tip
and platform, with and without film cooling, under engine Mach
and Reynolds number flow conditions. Investigations in the future
could focus on the effect of velocity, temperature, and turbulence
profiles exiting the combustion chamber on film cooling of surface
and end-walls of the first high pressure vane. The effect of rotation
and unsteady velocity and temperature profiles and stator wakes
on rotor blade film cooling effectiveness and heat transfer coeffi-
cients is a relatively unexplored subject. Effects of thermal barrier
coating spallation, film cooling-hole blockage and surface rough-
ness on the blade surface, end-walls and tip also merit investiga-
tion. Gas turbine vane and blade designs are beginning to
incorporate contoured end-walls to reduce aerodynamic losses
associated with secondary vortices. The effect of contoured end-
walls on film cooling can also be explored. Highly accurate and
highly detailed local heat transfer and film cooling data in the
turbine blade main body as well as the turbine blade edge
regions would be critical in preventing blade failure due to local
hot spots. Flow visualizations, measurements, and CFD predic-
tions would provide valuable information for designing effective
cooled blade for advanced gas turbines.
Turbine Internal Cooling Heat Transfer. For turbine blade
internal cooling, most experimental data available to date are for
rotating rectangular cooling channels with high performance rib
turbulators for Reynolds number up to 50,000, rotation number up
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to 0.25, and buoyancy parameter up to 0.5. These parameters are
applicable for aircraft gas turbines. More studies are needed for
the blade-shaped coolant passages (realistic cooling passage ge-
ometry, shape, and orientation) with high performance turbulators
and with or without film cooling holes, for rotating impingement
cooling with or without film coolant extraction, as well as rotating
pin-fin cooling with or without trailing edge ejection in order to
guide the efficient rotor blade internal cooling designs. In addi-
tion, for land-based power generation turbines, more studies are
needed for rotor coolant passage heat transfer under higher cool-
ant flow (Reynolds number up to 500,000), thermal (buoyancy
number up to 5), and rotation (rotation number up to 0.5) condi-
tions. Highly accurate and highly detailed local heat transfer coef-
ficient and pressure drop data under these extreme cooling design
conditions would be needed to prevent the blade from failure due
to local hot spots. In addition, study of higher heat transfer
enhancement versus lower pressure drop penalty should continue
to identify the best heat transfer augmentation technique including
compound and new cooling techniques. Development of accurate
and efficient CFD prediction tools should continue to provide val-
uable information for designing effective cooled rotor blades for
the new generation of gas turbines. With advancements being
made on alternative fuel sources for turbines (i.e., hydrogen), a
step change in the capability of blades to handle higher heating
loads is a must. Compound and new cooling concepts need to be
developed and explored, such as double wall cooling for new tur-
bine blades and vanes [141,142], heat pipe and microchannel
applications for blade tip, leading, and trailing edge cooling. Fun-
damental studies need to consider the effects of rotation on these
new cooling concepts. Development of this technology will ensure
that the blade design is not the limiting factor for increased effi-
ciency and the move to other fuel sources.
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