Film Cooling Effectiveness Data for Simple Injection Geometries: A Collection of Three-Axis Plots

A three-axis plot of laterally averaged film cooling effectiveness versus blowing rate and versus dimensionless distance downstream is a sufficiently compact representation of film cooling effectiveness data for injection through a row of holes or two rows of holes to enable easy, global comparisons among a variety of data sets.By plotting data from GAMMA E COMPLEX several film cooling studies conducted at the University of Minnesota, Integrated Fridge/Freezers the dominant roles played by density ratio, hole spacing, and surface curvature become apparent.It is also seen that a slot-plate prediction/correlation from two-dimensional film cooling studies makes an excellent standard of comparison for all film cooling studies, even though the more commonly encountered (two-axis) comparisons using standardized nondimensional parameters do not usually suggest this.

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