This work describes the main findings of a CFD analysis intended to accurately investigate the flow field and wall heat transfer as a result of the mutual interaction between a swirling flow generated by a lean burn injection system and a slot-effusion liner cooling system. In order to overcome some limitations of RANS approach, the simulations were performed with SST-SAS, a hybrid RANS-LES model. Moreover, the significant computational effort due to the presence of more than 600 effusion holes was limited exploiting two different modelling strategies: a homogeneous model based on the application of uniform boundary conditions on both aspiration and injection sides, and another solution that provides a coolant injection through point mass sources within a single cell. CFD findings were compared to experimental results coming from an investigation carried out on a three sector linear rig. The comparison pointed out that advanced modelling strategies, i.e. based on discrete mass sources, are able to reproduce the effects of mainstream-coolant interactions on convective heat loads. Validated the approach through a benchmark against time-averaged quantities, the transient data acquired were examined in order to better understand the unsteady behaviour of the thermal load through a statistical analysis, providing useful information with a design perspective.
Unsteady CFD investigation of effusion cooling process in a lean burn aero-engine combustor
2016
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