Abstract: In order to reveal the influence of the vortex reconstruction which is induced by swirling coolant flow on film cooling effectiveness, three different kinds of coolant chamber configuration based on the cylindrical hole are selected to develop the swirling flow structure of coolant, and the comparative investigations have been carried out to study the effect of different coolant chambers at blowing ratios ranging from 0.5 to 2.0. The results show that the coolant jet momentum is small at low blowing ratio, and the difference of the film cooling effectiveness of three kinds of coolant chamber configuration is little, but the advantage of swirling inflow coolant film cooling becomes obviously with the increase of blowing ratio. When the blowing ratio is 2.0, the jet momentum with original coolant chamber configuration is large and uniform, which leads to the lowest cooling effectiveness due to the formation of a strong kidney vortex. The first coolant chamber configuration has a low jet momentum region at upstream of the film hole, the coolant in this region interacts with high temperature mainstream and bypasses the large jet momentum coolant to attach cooling surface at downstream, the cooling effect is obvious at downstream. The second coolant chamber configuration is sprayed with the structure of unidirectional vortex, which forms a vortex pressing on other vortex, making the coolant in pressed vortex attach surface better. The coolant laterally velocity is large, producing the best coverage and the best film cooling effectiveness. The average film cooling effectiveness of the first and second coolant chamber configuration are larger than original by about 10% and 25%, respectively(M=1.0), or 50% and 550%(M=1.5).

Key words: film cooling, kidney vortex, swirling coolant flow, vortex reconstruction