26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-4.6.3

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE FLOW FIELD IN A ROTATING 'U' CHANNEL

M. Gallo, T. Astarita, G. M. Carlomagno
DETEC - Univ. of Naples "Federico II", Italy

Keywords: Gas turbine, rotating channel, U turn, Coriolis’ force, Vortical field

The aim of the present study is to perform PIV measurements in order to understand the complex turbulent flow field inside a rotating two-pass square U channel. The measured main and secondary flows have been correlated with some heat transfer data, previously obtained by the same authors.

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