Large eddy simulation study of the impact of an obstacle on cooling properties of a multiperforated liner

Abstract

Large eddy simulations are performed to investigate the impact of a solid obstacle on the flow around a multiperforated plate typical of aeronautical combustion chambers. The reference configuration is a perforated plate with approximately 200 holes immersed between a cold vein and hot vein at a typical operating point of helicopter combustors. The micro-jet Reynolds number is of the order of 4000, while the blowing and momentum ratios are close to 4 and 8, respectively. A variant configuration is considered that features an additional cylindrical obstacle located in the cold vein and mimicking a spark plug. The study reveals that, downstream of the obstacle, the cooling effectiveness of the plate is reduced by approximately 40% compared with the reference case, mainly due to the absence of perforation at the obstacle location. The mass flow rate within the holes in the wake produced by the obstacle is reduced by 7%, which is likely to locally influence the plate cooling. The reduction is attributed to the wake's pressure loss and its impact on the discharge coefficient. Additionally, the cooling effectiveness outside the wake shows a 5% increase that can be linked to the mass flow rate increase within corresponding holes.