The ingestion of hot mainstream gas into the wheel-space between the rotor and staler discs is one of the most important internal cooling problems for gas turbine designers. To solve this problem, engineers design a rim seal at the periphery of wheel-space and direct a sealing flow from the internal cooling system to prevent ingress. The main aim of this thesis is to build a simple computational model to predict the scaling effectiveness of externally-induced ingress for engine designers. The axisymmetric model represents a gas turbine wheel-space and provides useful information related to the fluid dynamics and heat transfer in the wheel-space. At the same time, this model saves much computation time and cost for engine designers who currently use complex and time-consuming 3D models. The- computational model in this -thesis is called the prescribed ingestion model. Steady simulations are carried out using the commercial CFD code, ANSYS CFX with meshes built using ICEM CFD. Boundary conditions are applied at the ingress inlet of the model using experimental measurements and a mass-based averaging procedure. Computational parameters such as rotational Reynolds number, non-dimensional sealing flow rate and thermal conditions on the rotor are selected to investigate the fluid dynamics and heat transfer at typical experimental rig operating conditions. Different rim seal geometries arc investigated and results are compared with experimental data. In addition to the prescribed ingestion model, two typical axisymmetric rotor-stator system models without ingress arc established. The aim of these rotor-stator models is to investigate the fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the wheel-space in the situation without ingress. The effects of geometry and turbulence model also arc studied in these simulations. Most results from these simulations are in good agreement with experimental data from the literature, which enhances confidence in the prescribed Ingestion model.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:604894 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Wang, Le |
| Contributors | Lock, Gary ; Wilson, Michael |
| Publisher | University of Bath |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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