Characteristics of Cooling of the Leading Edge With a Row of Dual Impinging Jets

The leading edge of turbine blades is one of the critical areas that need to be cooled effectively because of the high local heat transfer rate of the main flow. Film cooling with different shaped holes as well as internal cooling by impinging jets has successfully been applied in modern gas turbine applications. This paper numerically studies the cooling of the leading edge with a row of dual impinging jets — two jets close to each other. Heat transfer of the dual jets is compared to that of a single jet (in a row) based on the same flow rate or jet velocity. The effect of the distance between the dual jets and the jet inclination angle is examined to seek the best geometric parameters. In addition, the curvature of the leading edge surface is considered to examine the heat transfer difference between curved and flat walls. Various jet-to-target spacing and Reynolds numbers are also studied. Results show that the dual impinging jets generally produce two high heat transfer regions in the stagnation point, and the peak value is slightly higher than the single row of jets with the same Reynolds number. When the distance between two jets is 3d, the jet flow after bouncing back from the symmetry line affects the heat transfer as a crossflow. The target surface curvature has little effect on the overall heat transfer, but the peak heat transfer coefficient is lower on the curved surface than that on the flat surface. The dual impinging jets present a higher average heat transfer around the stagnation region.