Coupled flow field and heat transfer in an advanced internal cooling scheme [Elektronische Ressource] / by Filippo Coletti

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• Publié par: universitat_stuttgart
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 46
• Langue: English
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COUPLED FLOW FIELD AND HEAT TRANSFER 
IN AN ADVANCED INTERNAL COOLING SCHEME 
 
 
 
A thesis accepted by the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy 
of the Universität Stuttgart 
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of 
Doctor of Engineering Sciences (Dr.‐Ing.) 
 
 
by 
Filippo Coletti 
born in Perugia, Italy 
 
 
 
Committee chair:    Apl. Prof. Dr.‐Ing. Ulrich Rist 
Committee members:   Prof. Dr.‐Ing. habil. Bernhard Weigand 
    Prof. Dr. Tony Arts 
 
 
 
stDate of defense:     21  October, 2010 
 
 
 
Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics 
Universität Stuttgart 
2010  
 
 
 
Misura ciò che è misurabile, e rendi misurabile ciò che non lo è. 
 
Galileo Galilei (1564  – 1642) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A Marta Vázquez Álvarez  Acknowledgments 


A thesis is never a conclusive accomplishment. In the same way, the list of persons
who deserve being thanked by its author can never be complete. Nevertheless, it is a
pleasant exercise of memory to recall at least some of the many exceptional persons
who contributed, knowingly and unknowingly, to the successful end of my doctoral
carrier.
Prof. Tony Arts has been my supervisor at VKI throughout these years. Since he
picked me up as a stagiaire, he guided me attentively and still let me the freedom I
needed. He dispensed countless hints, advises, lessons. He taught me anything from
radial equilibrium to thermocouples calibration. He taught me that an experiment
starts in the mind of the investigator. He taught me to apply to my own work the same
criticism as if it was somebody else’s. He taught me that asking the right questions is
the key for the interpretation. He taught me that the spark in the eyes of a researcher
shall never die out. And he taught me all this with the force of the example. His door
has always been open, and every time I entered he had the right word at the right time.
He is more than a mentor, he is a true friend.
It is a privilege for me to have Prof. Bernhard Weigand as a supervisor. I benefited
from his deep knowledge of fluid dynamics and heat transfer, his scientific excellence
and his insightful comments. Even more, I enjoyed the genuine enthusiasm he puts in
anything he does. He is a terrific lecturer, and I was honored to have him speaking at
the VKI Lecture Series in Internal Cooling in Turbomachinery.
The former VKI director Mario Carbonaro offered me the possibility of joining the
Institute. I did not fully realize the implications at the moment, but today I can only
thank him, together with his predecessors, who spent their lifetime making the von
Karman Institute what it is.
Several members of the VKI faculty have contributed to make this work more
solid, pushing me to look at things from different perspectives. The constructive
criticism of Prof. Jean-Marie Buchlin opened the way to some of the most interesting
findings of this work. I gratefully acknowledge the sharp questions and the pertinent
remarks of Prof. René Van den Braembussche and Prof. Michel Riethmuller. Prof.
Tom Verstraete has wrestled with conjugate heat transfer as much as I have: it was a
pleasure to have him at my side in this fight.
Roberto García Casado was my advisor for only few months, but I did not forget
his kindness and his sincerity. Later on, every time I worked with a younger student, it
would be like looking at myself through the eyes of Roberto. His advises stayed with
me throughout these years, more than he can imagine.
In pretty much everything I did for this thesis, I was assisted by one or more
students. They called me “advisor”, but we were and are just friends, putting efforts
together. Alessandro Armellini, Luca Patricelli, Emanuele Facchinetti, Daniele Forlani
and Manfredi Scialanga have given me more than what I can express in words. The
hours in the lab, the problems, the solutions, the moments of satisfaction and the ones of discouragement wouldn’t have felt the same without them. They never give up.
They are my team.
I have had the chance of crossing my path with some outstanding colleagues
working in my same field, both at VKI and ITLR. Alberto Di Sante has been my
advisor-in-pectore in the early stage of my investigation. Beni Cukurel has been the
dialectic pole I needed in several intense and fruitful discussions. It was a pleasure to
share ideas with Peter Vass across the invisible line that separates experiments and
numerics. Marco Schüler took his time to train me in transient liquid crystals
thermography with unlimited patience. It was a pleasure to introduce Sebastian Spring
and Rico Poser to the audience before their impressive presentations at the VKI
Lecture Series.
I read a lot. Someone I know says I read too much. As far as fluid dynamics goes, I
will lovingly blame Christelle and Evelyne: they were tireless in providing any paper
or book I wanted, whether it was in the VKI archive or not. Un grand merci.
The reader should realize that this thesis is not just made of words, thoughts and
ideas. There’s that, too. But it is as well made out of Plexiglas, steel, wood, Inconel.
The work of the VKI engineers, technicians and workers (in particular in the
Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department) was instrumental. Julien, Yves, Pierre,
Jean-Christophe, Carlo, Mohammed, Terence, Walter, Maurizio, Vincent, Willy: my
gratitude goes to them all.
At VKI (and in its neighborhood that they call Brussels) I found unforgettable
friends. Marco Pau has been the voice and the face of my thoughtful moments since
our Diploma Course. If I didn’t have to convince him about my ideas, I wouldn’t
believe in them as much today. Flora Tomasoni has been sitting two meters on my
right for three years. I can’t count the times she saved my life with a post-it. Our talks
at the whiteboard will be echoing in our office for years to come. Michael Bilka was
there every time my life took a spin in the last five years, and it happened quite a few
times. Before meeting Mike I didn’t know I had a brother, so different from me, so
similar to me. Tomás Hofer and Konstantinos Myrillas were my family for nine
months in Rhode-Saint-Genèse, Avenue des Tilleuls 73. They kept me from dying
from starving, and made those days as magic as only a Diploma Course can be.
Alessandro Gambale gave me undeniable demonstration of how you can be a king
from inside the VKI basement. If I think back to the endless conversations we had
during our stage, it strikes me how many of his predictions came true. I shared with
Marco Panesi my first accommodation in Belgium. He tried to convince me to escape,
but I could read in between the lines: thank you Marco for making me like this place.
Raf Theunissen, Diego Paolucci, Kate Bernstein, Domenico Verrastro and I
tumbled several times inside and outside a car, one fatidic night of November during
my Diploma Course. When we all stood up after all, they were still my best friends.
Now they are spread at the four corners of the world. But there are links that you
cannot break.
It is a plain fact that at VKI people come and go. It’s in the very nature of the
Institute. Andrés, Mario, Jason, Giacomo, Baris, Javier, Julien Bodart, Sergio,
Catherine, Fabio, Jan, Mehmet, Francesco, Marco Maglio, Nicolas, Michelangelo,
Alessandro Parente, Thomas, Tim, Jeremy, Elisa (and counting) arrived/left sometime during my stay. They did (or will) wander away. It does not matter: I thank them for
being there when I needed, and for making these years unique.
At the end of this journey, my family deserves my gratitude more than anybody.
My father Maurizio, my mother Anna Maria and my sister Federica loved me enough
to do the most difficult, the most important thing: to let me go. At the same time they
have managed to be at my side every day, following each experiment, each
presentation, each deadline of these years from one thousand miles away, with
unshakable trust in my potential. Grazie.
At the beginning of my PhD I thought I was past the most startling period of my
life. And then came Marta. She reminded me things I had forgotten, reshaped my list
of priorities, and changed the language of my thoughts. In the months while I was
writing, while the work was getting hold of me, while books and p