To study the influence of cooling holes in a combustor using CFD

Combustion process is the complex phenomena involving the principles of fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and the chemical kinetics, which occurs in the limited space available inside the combustor. Moreover, proper combustion is the essence to enhance overall combustor efficiency. Combustor liner is provided with the cooling slots i.e. Film cooling and effusion cooling, to accomplice complete combustion and giving optimum temperature gradient required by the turbine blade. These cooling procedures will protect vulnerable combustor liner from hot combusted gas. In order to evince the effect of cooling slots, approach has been made to analyze combustor geometry using the application of CFD tools