Special Column of Internal Flow and Heat Transfer Technology Development in Aero-engine

Numerical simulation and experiment for heat transfer between oil film and inner wall of bearing chamber

  • HU Jianping ,
  • REN Guozhe ,
  • YI Jun ,
  • LIU Zhenxia ,
  • LYU Yaguo ,
  • ZHAO Jingyu
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  • 1. School of Power and Energy, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China;
    2. Aviation Equipment Development Office of Army, Beijing 100021, China

Received date: 2016-12-02

  Revised date: 2017-03-13

  Online published: 2017-05-12

Supported by

Science Foundation of Northwestern Polytechnical University (3102015ZY090);Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (20150453004);Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2015JQ5194)

Abstract

It is necessary to analyze heat transfer between the lubricating oil and the inner wall of the rear bearing chamber in the design of the heat protection structure for an aero-engine. The characteristics of the influence of the inner wall heat transfer from the oil film is obtained through both experiments and numerical simulation. The temperature distribution of the outer wall, inner wall and the oil film is tested to calculate the heat flux and the transfer coefficient. The simulation of the test rig is carried out using fluid-structure coupling with heat transfer, and the CLSVOF (Coupled Level Set and Volume Of Fluid) model is adopted to simulate the gas/oil flow. Comparisons of the local heat flux are then made between the experiments and the numerical simulation under different conditions, and the results show that the simulation results agree well with the experiment data. The relation between the heat coefficient and the local oil film Reynolds number Rel is also discussed. The local Nusselt number Nuw near the wall is directly proportional to 0.7 power of local Reynolds number Rel. In addition, analysis of the influence of the rotating speed shows that Nuw is proportional to 0.345 power of the rotary shaft rotational Reynolds number Rerot.

Cite this article

HU Jianping , REN Guozhe , YI Jun , LIU Zhenxia , LYU Yaguo , ZHAO Jingyu . Numerical simulation and experiment for heat transfer between oil film and inner wall of bearing chamber[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2017 , 38(9) : 521013 -521013 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2017.621013

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