Jet Impingement and Forced Convection Cooling Experimental Study in Rotating Turbine Blades

Both jet impingement and forced convection are attractive cooling mechanisms widely used in cooling gas turbine blades. Convective heat transfer from impinging jets is known to yield high local and area averaged heat transfer coefficients. Impingement jets are of particular interest in the cooling of gas turbine components where advancement relies on the ability to dissipate extremely large heat loads. Current research is concerned with the measurement and comparison of both jet impingement and forced convection heat transfer in the Reynolds number range of 10,000 to 30,000. This study is aimed at experimentally testing two different setups with forced convection and jet impingement in rotating turbine blades up to 700 RPM.