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Two-dimensional arrays of circular jets of air impinging on a heat transfer surface parallel to the jet orifice plate are considered. The air, after inpingement, is constrained to exit in a single direction along the channel formed by the surface and the jet plate. The downstream jets are subjected to a crossflow originating from the upstream jets. Experimental and theoretical results obtained for streamwise distributions of jet and crossflow velocities are presented and compared. Measured Nusselt numbers resolved to one streamwise hole spacing are correlated with individual spanwise row jet Reynolds numbers and crossflow-to-jet velocity ratios. Correlations are presented for both inline and staggered hole patterns including effects of geometric parameters: streamwise hole spacing, spanwise hole spacing, and channel height, normalized by hole diameter. The physical mechanisms influencing heat transfer coefficients as a function of flow distribution and geometric parameters are also discussed.

Streamwise heat transfer variation, overall array heat transfer, and overall flow friction behavior are presented for large aspect ratio ducts containing uniformly spaced staggered arrays of circular pin fins which span the entire duct height. The array geometries investigated have short pin heights (length-to-diameter ratio of 1) and moderate spanwise (transverse) and streamwise (longitudinal) pin spacings (pitch-to-diameter ratios of 1.5 and 2.5). Such staggered array geometries are typical of applications found in internally cooled gas turbine engine airfoils. The uncovered duct walls comprise a substantial fraction of the total heat transfer area. Ten pin rows in the streamwise direction are utilized in all the experiments, with a segmented construction allowing determination of spanwise-averaged heat transfer coefficients resolved to a single row spacing in the streamwise direction. Comparisons are made with results of prior studies which are mainly restricted to flow normal to banks of circular cylinders with long length-to-diameter ratios.

Modern high-performance gas turbine engines operate at high turbine inlet temperatures and require internal convection cooling of many of the components exposed to the hot gas flow. Cooling air is supplied from the engine compressor at a cost to cycle performance and a design goal is to provide necessary cooling with the minimum required cooling air flow. In conjunction with this objective, two families of pin fin array geometries which have potential for improving airfoil internal cooling performance were studied experimentally. One family utilizes pins of a circular cross section with various orientations of the array with respect to the mean flow direction. The second family utilizes pins with an oblong cross section with various pin orientations with respect to the mean flow direction. Both heat transfer and pressure loss characteristics are presented. The results indicate that the use of circular pins with array orientation between staggered and inline can in some cases increase heat transfer while decreasing pressure loss. The use of elongated pins increases heat transfer, but at a high cost of increased pressure loss. In conjunction with the present measurements, previously published results were reexamined in order to estimate the magnitude of heat transfer coefficients on the pin surfaces relative to those of the endwall surfaces. The estimate indicates that the pin surface coefficients are approximately double the endwall values.

Heat transfer characteristics were measured for two-dimensional arrays of jets impinging on a surface parallel to the jet orifice plate. The impinging flow was constrained to exit in a single direction along the channel formed by the jet plate and the heat transfer surface. Both mean Nusselt numbers and streamwise Nusselt number profiles are presented as a function of Reynolds number and geometric parameters. The results show that significant periodic variations occur in the streamwise Nusselt number profiles, persisting downstream for at least ten rows of jet holes. Both channel height and hole spacing can have a significant effect on the streamwise profiles, smoothed across the periodic variations. Where significant differences exist, inline hole patterns provide better heat transfer than staggered ones, particularly downstream. These and other effects of the geometric parameters are presented and discussed.