Design and Numerical Analysis of a Vane Shaped Receiver Hole in a Cover-Plate Preswirl System

In a cover-plate system, rotating receiver hole is an important component, because its structure and characteristics directly influence the aerodynamic loss and cooling performance in the preswirl system. A new type of vane shaped (VS) receiver hole was designed and presented in this paper. Numerical simulations were carried out to compare the performances among high-radius direct transfer system (model-A), low-radius cover-plate system with simple drilled (SD) receiver holes (model-B), and low-radius cover-plate system with VS receiver holes (model-C). Results indicate that for the operating conditions simulated here, temperature drop effectiveness of the high-radius preswirl system is much better compared to the low-radius system with SD receiver hole. With VS receiver hole, the aerodynamic loss in model-C is the lowest. The nondimensional static pressure at preswirl nozzle exit is only 0.93, around 10% lower than model-B. Moreover, it has a more remarkable cooling performance. The temperature drop effectiveness of model-C can be as high as 0.52, around 67.7% higher compared to model-A. The system with VS receiver hole could not only realize the advantage of low leakage flow as a low-radius system, but also could achieve higher temperature drop compared to high-radius system.