The effect of large density differences on film cooling effectiveness was investigated through the heat-mass transfer analogy. Experiments were performed in a wind tunnel where one of the plane walls was provided with a porous strip or a row of holes with three-diameter lateral spacing and inclined 35 deg into the main stream. Helium, CO2, or refrigerant F-12, was mixed with air either in small concentrations to approach a constant property situation or in larger concentration to produce a large density difference and injected through the porous strip or the row of holes into the mainstream. The resulting local gas concentrations were measured along the wall. The density ratio of secondary to mainstream fluid was varied between 0.75 and 4.17 for both injection systems. Local film effectiveness values were obtained at a number of positions downstream of injection and at different lateral positions. From these lateral average values could also be calculated. The following results were obtained. The heat mass-transfer analogy was verified for injection through the porous strip or through holes at conditions approaching a constant property situation. Neither the Schmidt number, nor the density ratio affects the film effectiveness for injection through a porous strip. The density ratio has a strong effect on the film effectiveness for injection through holes. The film effectiveness for injection through holes has a maximum value for a velocity ratio (injection to free stream) between 0.4 and 0.6. The center-line effectiveness increases somewhat with a decreasing ratio of boundary layer thickness to injection tube diameter.
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Multiple smoke wires are used to investigate the secondary flow near the endwall of a plane cascade with blade shapes used in high-performance turbine stages. The wires are positioned parallel to the endwall and ahead of the cascade, within and outside the endwall boundary layer. The traces of the smoke generated by the wires are visualized with a laser light sheet illuminating various cross sections around the cascade. During the experiment, a periodically fluctuating horseshoe vortex system of varying number of vortices is observed near the leading edge of the cascade. A series of photographs and video tapes was taken in the cascade to trace these vortices. The development and evolution of the horseshoe vortex and the passage vortex are clearly resolved in the photographs. The interation between the suction side leg of the horseshoe vortex and the passage vortex is also observed in the experiment. A vortex induced by the passage vortex, starting about one-fourth of the curvilinear distance along the blade on the suction surface, is also found. This vortex stays close to the suction surface and above the passage vortex in the laminar flow region on the blade. From this flow visualization, a model describing the secondary flows in a cascade is proposed and compared with previous published models. Some naphthalene mass transfer results from a blade near an endwall are cited and compared with the current model. The flows inferred from the two techniques are in good agreement.
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