LES of density ratio effects on film cooling under rotating frame

A numerical study was conducted to investigate the performance of film cooling injection from a row of multiple square holes spaced laterally across a flat plate. LES with the standard Smagorinsky-Lilly model was used to investigate the dynamic mixing process between the coolant jet stream and the mainstream flows. The finite volume method and the unsteady PISO algorithm on a non-uniform staggered grid were applied. The values of rotation number (Ro) examined were 0.0, 0.03021, 0.06042, and 0.12084, jet spacing to jet width ratio (P/D) was 3.0, and a jet Reynolds number (Re) of 4700, which based on the hole width and the jet exit velocity. The effects of the coolant to mainstream density ratio (DR) on the film cooling effectiveness were investigated by injecting either Nitrogen (DR = 0.98) or Carbon dioxide (DR = 1.55) as the coolant streams. The effect of density ratio on the film-cooling effectiveness is coupled with varying velocity ratio (VR=0.5 and 1.0). The coolant gas was injected at 90o to the mainstream flow. The flow fields of the present study were compared with experimental data in order to validate the reliability of the LES technique. It was shown that rotation has a strong impact on the jet trajectory behaviour and the film cooling effectiveness. In all cases, as the rotation number increases, the film effectiveness increases; this effect is increased as the velocity ratio increases. The results also showed the strong influence of velocity ratio on the flow field behaviour and the film cooling where the jet penetrates further into the cross flow as VR increases and the wake region increases with increasing VR. Furthermore, It was concluded that density ratio has only a minor effect on flow field and heat transfer at a constant velocity ratio.