Abstract: An predictional in vestigation of heat transfer on convex curvature surfaces with and without film-cooling is dealt with. The prediction is based on a general 2-dimensional boundary layer flow and heat-transfer program with inclusion of a modified mixing-length turbulence model to account for the effect of wall curvature and injection on heat-transfer. The predicted convective heat transfer coefficients, on both curvature region and curvature recovery region are compared with the measurements and predictions given in some references. The numerical results agree well with experimental data except in the region of film-cooling recovery region. From this paper, these conclusions were obtained: 1. The curvature has a considerable effect on turbulent flow, and the inclusion of this effect in engineering prediction is necessary and the model used in this paper proves valid. 2. The flat film-cooling model suggested by Crawford and Adams' turbulence model of wall curvature effect can be combined to predict the film-cooling on curvature surface, but the constants in the former model should be changed according to the strength of curvature (δ/R) This paper also gives the values of the constants at δ/R=0.1.3. The models mentioned above cann't predict the full-coverage film-cooling recovery region satisfactorily, so that further improvement is expected.

Key words: curvature, turbulent flow, film cooling, boundary layer