UNSTEADY WAKE OVER A LINEAR TURBINE BLADE CASCADE WITH AIR AND CO2 FILM INJECTION .2. EFFECT ON FILM EFFECTIVENESS AND HEAT-TRANSFER DISTRIBUTIONS

The effect of unsteady wake flow and air (D.R. = 0.97) or CO2 (D.R. = 1.48) film injection on blade film effectiveness and heat transfer dis tributions was experimentally determined A spoked wheel type wake gene rator produced the unsteady wake. Experiments were performed on a five -airfoil linear cascade in a low-speed wind tunnel at the chord Reynol ds number of 3 x 10(5) for the no wake case and at the wake Strouhal n umbers of 0.1 and 0.3. A model turbine blade with several rows of film holes on ifs leading edge, and pressure and suction surfaces (-0.2<X/ C<0.4) was used. Results show that the blowing ratios of 1.2 and 0.8 p rovide the best film effectiveness over most of the blade surface for CO2 and air injections, respectively. An increase in the wake Strouhal number causes a decrease in film effectiveness over most of the blade surface for both density ratio injectants and at all blowing ratios. On the pressure surface, CO2 injection provides higher film effectiven ess than air injection at the blowing ratio of 1.2; however, this tren d is reversed at the blowing ratio of 0.8. On the suction surface, CO2 injection provides higher film effectiveness than air injection at th e blowing ratio of 1.2; however, this trend is reversed at the blowing ratio of 0.4. Co-2 injection provides lower heat loads than air injec tion at the blowing ratio of 1.2; however, this trend is reversed at t he blowing ratio of 0.4. Heat load ratios under unsteady wake conditio ns are lower than the no wake case. For an actual gas turbine blade, s ince the blowing ratios can be greater than 1.2 and the density ratios can be up to 2.0, a higher density ratio coolant may provide lower he at load ratios under unsteady wake conditions.