TY  - EJOU
AU  - Shukla, Anand 
AU  - Chaube, Alok 
AU  - Guptac, Shailesh 
AU  - Sirsath, Arvind 

TI  - EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON HEAT TRANSFER AND  FRICTION FACTOR CHARACTERISTICS OF A STATIONARY SQUARE  DUCT ROUGHENED BY V AND ᴧ-SHAPED RIBS
T2  - Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

PY  - 2014
VL  - 5
IS  - 1
SN  - 2151-8629

AB  - One of the traditional methods used to improve the efficiency of a gas turbine is to increases the inlet temperature; thereby increasing the power output and 
in turn, the efficiency. The internal cooling passages of blades are roughened by artificial roughness to improve the cooling performance. The present study 
investigates the convective heat transfer and friction factor (pressure drop) characteristics of a rib-roughened square duct. The test section of the duct is 
roughened on its top and bottom wall with V and ᴧ- shaped square ribs. In the study, the Reynolds number (<i>Re</i>) varied from 10,000 to 40,000, the relative 
roughness height (<i>e/D</i>h) is 0.060, relative roughness pitch (<i>p/e</i>) is 10 and rib attack angle (<i>α</i>) is taken as 450 and 600
. The comparison of heat transfer and 
pressure drop for V and ᴧ- shaped ribs is presented in the form of Nusselt Number and friction factor. The results show that the Nusselt number 
enhancement decreases when the Reynolds number increases. The friction factor ratio is found to increases as Reynolds number increases. The thermal 
performance decreases when the Reynolds number increases. It seems that the ribs disturb the main flow resulting in the recirculation and secondary flow 
near the ribbed wall. The heat transfer coefficient and friction factor for all the cases are higher than that of the smooth duct. The V-shaped ribs have higher 
Nusselt number and friction factor than the ᴧ - shaped ribs. It is also concluded that the V -shaped ribs perform better than the ᴧ- shaped ribs. Ribs with 
α = 600 produces higher heat transfer and friction factor than α = 450
. The results obtained in the study will help the turbine blade designer to design the 
effective cooling methods to cool the blades.
KW  - Friction factor; Nusselt number; Reynolds number; thermal performance
KW  -  V-shaped ribs

DO  - 10.5098/hmt.5.14