CERFACS CERFACS Scientific Activity Report Jan. 2010 â Dec. 2011
CERFACS CERFACS Scientific Activity Report Jan. 2010 â Dec. 2011
CERFACS CERFACS Scientific Activity Report Jan. 2010 â Dec. 2011
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COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS<br />
3.2.5 Turbine flows : influence of the environment on aerothermal performance<br />
(F. Wlassow, N. Gourdain)<br />
The prediction of blade temperatures for high-pressure turbines is challenging because of the complex<br />
environment that interacts with the turbine : hot-streak migration, unsteady flow phenomena, fluid/solid<br />
thermal coupling and technological details (squealer tip, coolant ejections, fillets, etc.). Several unsteady<br />
RANS simulations have been performed with elsA in a single stage high-pressure turbine to investigate<br />
these points. The baseline simulation takes into account a squealer tip and an inlet condition representative<br />
of a hot streak generated by the combustion chamber.<br />
Other technological details (coolant ejections and fillets) and fluid/solid thermal coupling on the rotor blade<br />
were also studied. The Chimera technique is used to ease the integration of technological details. The<br />
conjugate heat transfer (CHT) problem is solved by means of a code coupling where fluxes and temperatures<br />
are exchanged at the blade surface between the fluid dynamics solver (elsA ) and the solid thermal code<br />
(AVTP). Coupling has been done with two different techniques : first a Python loop has been developed<br />
to achieve a steady-state convergence (codes are run independently and boundary condition are updated at<br />
some meeting points), then the code coupling tool Open-PALM has been used to obtain a time-dependent<br />
coupling solution. Both techniques provide identical results.<br />
Results shows that rotor blade fillets have a limited impact on both the blade temperature and the turbine<br />
efficiency (less than 1%). On the contrary, taking into account external cooling leads to a modification of<br />
radial distribution of loss and loading coefficients and reduces the efficiency by 2%. The blade temperature<br />
is also impacted, mainly on the suction side where differences of several per cent with the base-line case<br />
are observed. Fluid/solid coupling mainly affects the blade temperature prediction by homogenizing and<br />
inducing differences of around 3% with the base-line case.<br />
3.2.6 Turbine flows : aerothermal prediction with wall-resolved LES<br />
(E. Collado Morata, L. Gicquel, N. Gourdain)<br />
Recent developments for the prediction of turbulent flows around blades point LES as a very promising<br />
tool. While LES of wall bounded flows are now well mastered in academic test cases, the use of LES in<br />
configurations close to industrial applications is not yet well established. To partly address this important<br />
issue, a structured multi-block flow solver (elsA) and an unstructured code (AVBP) are used to perform<br />
LES of the flow in a high pressure turbine vane cascade at high Reynolds number (about 10 6 ). The<br />
predictions obtained with both solvers are compared to measurements obtained by Arts et al. [1] and to<br />
RANS simulations [CFD39], Fig. 3.7(a). Results show that LES is about 10,000 times more costly than<br />
RANS. However only LES is able to estimate the wall heat transfer, which is mainly driven by boundary<br />
layer transition on the vane suction side. For example, Fig.3.7(b) shows a comparison of the wall heat<br />
transfer coefficient with measurements. The agreement is very good on the pressure side and the location of<br />
the transition point on the suction side is also correctly predicted with both solvers. Detailed analysis of the<br />
flow predictions also underlines the role of long streamwise streaky structures, responsible for the increase<br />
of wall heat transfer.<br />
3.2.7 Turbine flows : aerothermal prediction with wall-law LES (S. Bocquet)<br />
LES with a wall law formulation is applied to the VKI high pressure turbine vane cascade [1] at high<br />
Reynolds number (2 ×10 6 ). The use of such an approach on this test case is motivated by two reasons. One<br />
is the need to assess LES with wall law on a configuration representative of industrial applications, implying<br />
both complex physical effects and geometry. Second, while very expensive in terms of computational cost,<br />
wall-resolved LES [CFD39] is available on this configuration to validate the results obtained with a wall<br />
law LES.<br />
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