The ever increasing performance requirements of modern aeroengines necessitate the development of effective ways to improve efficiency and reduce losses. Casing temperature control is particularly critical from this point of view, since thermal expansion directly affects the blade tip clearance and thus the associated leakages. To limit the turbine tip flows, active clearance control (ACC) systems have been implemented over the last decades. These systems are usually based upon impingement cooling, generated by a series of perforated manifolds enclosing the turbine casing. When dealing with aeroengine low pressure turbines, the current trend in increasing the engine bypass ratio, so as to enhance the system propulsive efficiency, pushes the limits of ACC traditional design performance. The reduction of the pressure head at the ACC system inlet requires lower nozzle-to-target distances as well as denser impingement arrays to compensate the reduction of the jets' Reynolds number. Literature correlations for the impingement heat transfer coefficient estimation are then out of their confidence range and also RANS numerical approaches appear not suitable for future ACC designs. In this work, methodologies for the development of accurate and reliable tools to determine the heat transfer characteristics of low pressure ACC systems are presented.

Development of experimental and numerical methods for the analysis of active clearance control systems / Da Soghe R.; Mazzei L.; Tarchi L.; Cocchi L.; Picchi A.; Facchini B.; Descamps L.; Girardeau J.; Simon M.. - In: JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING FOR GAS TURBINES AND POWER. - ISSN 1528-8919. - ELETTRONICO. - 143:(2021), pp. 0-0. [10.1115/1.4049354]

Development of experimental and numerical methods for the analysis of active clearance control systems

Cocchi L.;Picchi A.;Facchini B.;
2021

Abstract

The ever increasing performance requirements of modern aeroengines necessitate the development of effective ways to improve efficiency and reduce losses. Casing temperature control is particularly critical from this point of view, since thermal expansion directly affects the blade tip clearance and thus the associated leakages. To limit the turbine tip flows, active clearance control (ACC) systems have been implemented over the last decades. These systems are usually based upon impingement cooling, generated by a series of perforated manifolds enclosing the turbine casing. When dealing with aeroengine low pressure turbines, the current trend in increasing the engine bypass ratio, so as to enhance the system propulsive efficiency, pushes the limits of ACC traditional design performance. The reduction of the pressure head at the ACC system inlet requires lower nozzle-to-target distances as well as denser impingement arrays to compensate the reduction of the jets' Reynolds number. Literature correlations for the impingement heat transfer coefficient estimation are then out of their confidence range and also RANS numerical approaches appear not suitable for future ACC designs. In this work, methodologies for the development of accurate and reliable tools to determine the heat transfer characteristics of low pressure ACC systems are presented.
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Da Soghe R.; Mazzei L.; Tarchi L.; Cocchi L.; Picchi A.; Facchini B.; Descamps L.; Girardeau J.; Simon M.
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