AE305 - NUMERICAL METHODS

Dr. Ismail H. Tuncer

Instructors: Dr. Yusuf Ozyoruk HOMEWORK-III
Dr. Nilay Sezer Uzol November 8, 2019
Assistants: H.C. Onel, I. Tandogan and C. Erdogan Due on: Friday, November 22

FINITE VOLUME METHOD

Compute the unsteady temperature distribution in a turbine blade by solving the unsteady heat
transfer equation
∂T ∂2T ∂2T
= α( 2 + )
∂t ∂x ∂y 2
where α is the thermal diffusivity. Note that the blade, which is made of titanium, is subject to a
high temperature due to the hot gases produced in the combustor, and is internally cooled by
pumping low temperature air through the holes in the blade.
The convective heat fluxs on the blade and on the cooling hole surfaces are given by

F~ = ~q 00conv = h(Ts − T∞ )~n

where h is the convective heat transfer coefficient, ~n is the unit surface normal vector directed
from surface to the fluid over it. The convective heat transfer coefficients in non-dimensional
form are:
hhotgas L hcoolair D
N uL = = 2500 and N uD = = 500
khotgas kcoolair

where L = 10cm, is the chord length of the blade, and D = 0.007m is the hole diameter, k is the
thermal conductivity; k = αρcp . The flow temperatures are Thotgas = 1200 deg C , and
Tcoolair = 200 deg C . Take kcoolair = 18 · 10−3 W/mK, khotgas = 75 · 10−3 W/mK ,
ktitanium = 22 W/mK, αtitanium = 9.3 · 10−6 m2 /s, all fixed.
The blade geometry and an unstructured grid are shown below:

◦ Obtain the unsteady temperature distribution on the blade by assuming the blade outer and
inner surface temperatures are equal to the fluid temperatures they are in contact.

◦ Obtain the unsteady temperature distribution again implementiing the convective heat
transfer at the boundaries.

◦ Place additional circular cooling holes by modifying the input file, blade.d, properly, and
using easymesh, easymesh2tec, easymesh2fv programs.

◦ Compute the amounts of heat extracted form the blade for all cases.

◦ Disccuss your findings.

◦ Use the incomplete Fortran code provided.

The report should include:

◦ The time variations of the temperature distribution over the blade as a series contour plots

◦ The steady-state cell heat influx distributions