Design and application of an air-cooled probe for total pressure measurement at combustor outlet

An air-cooled probe was designed for measurement of total pressure at combustor outlet;its cooling scheme combined the film cooling and convection cooling.With the aid of CFD technique,cooling effectiveness of the coolant jets at various blow ratios was compared;suitable blow ratios and configuration of film holes were chosen accordingly.The overall cooling performance of the probe was evaluated via CFD technique,the design was improved according to the simulation result,and the cooling effect of the leading edge was obviously strengthened by increasing the local coolant mass flow rate.The results of wind tunnel test indicated that,between Mach numbers 0.2 and 0.4,the probe achieved a high accuracy at various attack angles.The probe was utilized in an annular combustor rig test,the highest temperature reached 1 760 Kand total pressure reaches 1 036 kPa.The result of rig test demonstrates that the coolant film distribution consistent appropriately with the CFD results.