Investigation of the Aerodynamics and Cooling of Advanced Engine Turbine Components

Objective

The research programme has the following principal objectives.

Better understanding of, and ability to control wake/blade interaction effects in highly loaded HP turbines.
Resolution of the effects on turbine performance of coolant injection in Nozzle Guide Vanes (NGV) and blades.
Measurement of heat transfer to rotating turbine blades. Unsteady interaction and coolant injection from NGV and blade.
Investigation of large scale film cooling holes. Determination of the discharge coefficient, flow structure and heat transfer.
CFD development work to shed further light on the above and facilitate superior design methods.
A significant programme of collaborative research work has been successfully completed. Twenty partners from across the whole of Europe have worked together. Six experiments were carried out all partners contributed to the successful conclusion of the work. Activities included design, manufacture, instrumentation work, commissioning and running the rigs, analysing results, writing and applying CFD codes and project management.

The major outcome is a unique data base describing in detail the flow field in highly cooled HP turbines. The size of this data base cannot be over emphasised. Much of the data is time resolved extending the three spatial dimensions to four including time. Such data is a vital resource to generate and validate the new generation of unsteady CFD codes. Such CFD work was also advanced in the programme. Some of the data is suitable to be directly applied to design as empirical correlations, a process which has already started.

Through the research programme a large number of people from the different members of the consortium have been exposed to new ideas and much valuable training has been a useful by-product. Useful working relationships have also been developed to cross barriers between industry and academia, different countries and between industries.

Programme(s)

• FP3-AERO 1C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies - Aeronautics research -, 1990-1994

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

ROLLS-ROYCE PLC

Address

65 Buckingham Gate
SW1E 6AT London
United Kingdom

Participants (19)

ABB Kraftwerke Ltd

Switzerland

Address

16,Haselstrasse
5401 Baden

ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI

Greece

Address

University Campus, Egnatia Str.
54006 Thessaloniki

Alfa Romeo Avio - Societ Aeromotoristica per Azioni

Italy

Address

Viale Impero
80038 Pompigliano D'arco

BMW Rolls-Royce GmbH

Germany

Address

Hohemarkstraße 60-70
61440 Oberursel

Fiat Avio SpA

Italy

Address

Corso Ferrucci 112
10138 Torino

GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTRE

Germany

Address

Bunsenstraße 10
37073 Goettingen

Industria de Turbo Propulsores SA

Spain

Address

Km 3.5,Carretera Torrejón Ajalvir
28850 Madrid

Motoren- und Turbinen-Union München GmbH (MTU)

Germany

Address

Dachauer Straße 665
80995 München

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE - MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

United Kingdom

Address

Dera Pyestock - Iveley Road.
GU14 0LS Farnborough

Société Nationale d'Études et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation (SNECMA)

France

Address

2 Boulevard Du Général Martial Valin
75724 Paris

Société Turbomeca

France

Address

Route De Pau
64511 Bordes

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

United Kingdom

Address

Parks Road
OX1 3PJ Oxford

UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE

Italy

Address

3,Via Santa Marta 3
50139 Firenze

University of Bath

United Kingdom

Address

Claverton Down
BA2 7AY Bath - Avon

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

Address

Madingley Road
CB3 0HE Cambridge

University of Limerick

Ireland

Address

Plassey Park
61 Limerick

Universität Karlsruhe (Technische Hochschule)

Germany

Address

12,Kaiserstrasse
76128 Karlsruhe

VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS

Belgium

Address

Chaussee De Waterloo 72
Rhode-st-genese

Volvo Aero Corporation AB

Sweden

Address

461 81 Trollhättan