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Shih, Tom

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Revisiting Dimensionless Parameters Quantifying Film Cooling

This paper describes a dimensional analysis of film cooling effectiveness for crossflow-fed film cooling holes. An additional parameter is required to account for swirl inside the film cooling hole. Computations based on Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) show significant improvements in cooling effectiveness when the coolant supply velocity is decreased. NETL experimental data was used to validate these computational results.

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