Sponsor
S.A., S.M., R.K., and X.Y. are supported by the Department of Energy under Award Number(s) DE-FE0001730. R.K. and X.Y. also acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation under award number 2231037.
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Flow
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-29-2022
Subjects
Additive manufacturing
Abstract
Metal additive manufacturing has enabled geometrically complex internal cooling channels for turbine and heat exchanger applications, but the process gives rise to large-scale roughness whose size is comparable to the channel height (which is 500 μm). These super-rough channels pose previously unseen challenges for experimental measurements, data interpretation and roughness modelling. First, it is not clear if measurements at a particular streamwise and spanwise location still provide accurate representation of the mean (time- and plane-averaged) flow. Second, we do not know if the logarithmic layer survives. Third, it is unknown how well previously developed rough-wall models work for these large-scale roughnesses. To answer the above practical questions, we conduct direct numerical simulations of flow in additively manufactured super-rough channels. Three rough surfaces are considered, all of which are obtained from computed tomography scans of additively manufactured surfaces. The roughness’ trough to peak sizes are 0.1h, 0.3h and 0.8h, respectively, where h is the intended half-channel height. Each rough surface is placed opposite a smooth wall and the other two rough surfaces, leading to six rough-wall channel configurations. Two Reynolds numbers are considered, namely Re𝜏 = 180 and Re𝜏 = 395. We show first that measurements at one streamwise and spanwise location are insufficient due to strong mean flow inhomogeneity across the entire channel, second that the logarithmic law of the wall survives despite the mean flow inhomogeneity and third that the established roughness sheltering model remains accurate.
Rights
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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DOI
10.1017/flo.2022.13
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39212
Citation Details
Altland, S., Zhu, X., McClain, S., Kunz, R., & Yang, X. (2022). Flow in additively manufactured super-rough channels. Flow, 2, E19.