Film cooling is a cooling technique in which a protective layer is generated by the coolant along the wall to shield the wall surface against high temperature flow. When the fluids of the coolant and high-temperature gas are of different qualities, it is often accompanied by the mass and energy transfer. During the film cooling process, the lower-temperature gas is transported to the surface through the tangential gap on the wall which requires thermal protection. And then the film is formed along the direction of the high-temperature flow, causing the solid wall isolated from the high temperature gas, thereby it can prevent the wall surface from being touched and damaged by hot stream. Since the film cooling sets high standards for hole shape, the structure of injection, the length of the coolant supply tube, the angle of incidence, the blowing ratio, the thickness of the boundary layer, ribs and the Reynolds number, etc., the analysis and optimization of these factors have been particular significance on improving cooling efficiency. This paper introduces the dominant factors which influence film cooling effectiveness, besides, analyzes the methods to achieve the best cooling results. The impact of the vortex structures on enhancing film cooling performance is explored. Moreover, a new train of thought is proposed to improve the cooling efficiency under the joint action of the vortex generator and the synthetic jet.
By combining the synthetic jet and film cooling, the incident cooling flow is specially treated to find a better film cooling method. Numerical simulations of the synthetic coolant ejected are carried out for analyzing the cooling performance in detail, under different blowing ratios, hole patterns, Strouhal numbers, and various orders of incidence for the two rows of holes. By comparing the flow structures and the cooling effect corresponding to the synthetic coolant and the steady coolant fields, it is found that within the scope of the investigations, the best cooling effect can be obtained under the incident conditions of an elliptical hole with the aspect ratio of 0.618, the blow molding ratio of 2.5, and the Strouhal number St = 0.22. Due to the strong controllability of the synthetic coolant, the synthetic coolant can be controlled through adjusting the frequency of blowing and suction, so as to change the interaction between vortex structures for improving film cooling effect in turn. As a result, the synthetic coolant ejection is more advisable in certain conditions to achieve better outcomes.
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