A heart shaped film cooling hole was firstly presented to improve the cooling effectiveness of modern gas turbine. The flow field performance and cooling performance were analyzed through numerical simulation. The result of heart shaped film cooling hole was compared with that of cylindrical film cooling hole. The comparisons show that the heart shaped film cooling hole can reduce the strength of counter rotating vortex pair
thus the coolant-surface attachment is improved. For heart shaped film cooling hole
the expansion structure on the hole exit allows the coolant to flow along spanwise direction
resulting in a better spanwise averaged film cooling effectiveness than that of cylindrical hole. By comparing with cylindrical hole
the heart shaped hole increases the film cooling performance. The heart shaped film cooling hole shows enhancements of approximately 70.93%
246.94%
598.9% and 879.07% at blowing ratio of 0.5-2.0
respectively. In terms of heat-flux ratio
the hearted shaped hole shows the lowest heat-flux ratio at blowing ratio of 1.5
indicating that the hearted shaped hole provides the best film cooling performance at blowing ratio of 1.5.