Flow and heat transfer in swirl tubes—A review

F Seibold, P Ligrani, B Weigand - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of modern gas turbines for aircraft propulsion and power generation
demands ever-increasing efficiency, which can be achieved by rising the turbine inlet …

Numerical research of a new vortex double wall cooling configuration for gas turbine blade leading edge

X Fan - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022 - Elsevier
In order to explore new cooling methods to further improve the cooling performance for the
gas turbine blade leading edge, a vortex double wall cooling configuration is established …

Cooling methods for gas turbine blade leading edge: Comparative study on impingement cooling, vortex cooling and double vortex cooling

X Fan, L Li, J Zou, Y Zhou - … Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
To compare the behavior of different cooling methods for gas turbine blade leading edge,
configurations of impingement cooling, vortex cooling and double vortex cooling are …

Effect of jet nozzle geometry on flow and heat transfer performance of vortex cooling for gas turbine blade leading edge

C Du, L Li, X Wu, Z Feng - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, 3D viscous steady Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations are
utilized to investigate the influence of jet nozzle geometry on flow and thermal behavior of …

Flow and heat transfer in a rotating channel with impingement cooling and film extraction

H Deng, Z Wang, J Wang, H Li - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2021 - Elsevier
Impingement cooling is applied on the turbine blade leading edge which suffers the highest
heat transfer and needs priority protection. The current work focuses on the rotational effects …

Local heat transfer of vortex cooling with multiple tangential nozzles in a gas turbine blade leading edge cooling passage

X Fan, L Li, J Zou, J Wang, F Wu - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Based on combined Infrared Thermography and numerical simulations, the heat
transfer and flow performance in a vortex cooling configuration with 5 nozzles were …

Heat transfer and pressure loss in swirl tubes with one and multiple tangential jets pertinent to gas turbine internal cooling

Y Rao, C Biegger, B Weigand - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comparative experimental and numerical study of heat transfer and
pressure loss characteristics in swirl tubes with one (S1) and five (S5) tangential inlet jets …

Numerical investigations on flow and heat transfer of swirl and impingement composite cooling structures of turbine blade leading edge

F Wu, L Li, J Wang, X Fan, C Du - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, four swirl and impingement composite cooling structures are established to
deeply study the flow and heat transfer characteristics, where the swirl nozzles and …

Numerical investigation of a novel multistage swirl cooling conception in blade leading edge of gas turbine

R Yao, H Su, Y Cheng, J Wang, J Pu - International Journal of Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Swirl cooling is one of the latest and promising internal cooling strategies, which has been
widely reported in the designs of the turbine blade leading edges. Based on the traditional …

Flow and heat transfer measurements in swirl tubes with one and multiple tangential inlet jets for internal gas turbine blade cooling

C Biegger, Y Rao, B Weigand - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a detailed experimental and numerical study of the flow
phenomena and the heat transfer in swirl tubes with one and multiple tangential inlet jets …