TY - JOUR
T1 - A physics-guided global-local deep learning method for rapid reconstruction of film-cooled turbine blade temperature fields
AU - Zhang, Zhenyuan
AU - Li, Honglin
AU - Tan, Chunlong
AU - Yuan, Tianyu
AU - Liu, Qingyu
AU - Li, Lei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2026/8
Y1 - 2026/8
N2 - Film cooling is a critical technology for protecting gas turbine blades from extreme thermal loads. However, the design of complex cooling configurations is severely constrained by the prohibitive computational cost of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations. Existing data-driven methods generally suffer from geometric rigidity, intrinsically coupling local fluid dynamics with global blade geometry, thereby requiring massive fully-cooled 3D datasets and costly retraining. To overcome these fundamental bottlenecks, this study proposes a physics-guided global-local deep learning framework for the rapid reconstruction of full-blade film cooling temperature fields. The fundamental novelty lies in effectively decoupling local flow physics from global geometric morphology. First, an adapted generative adversarial network is trained exclusively on computationally efficient canonical flat-plate data to capture high-fidelity local flow features. Subsequently, a deterministic global superposition reconstruction method is developed. It mathematically unwraps the complex 3D blade into a 2D plane, maps the local predictions using dimensionless coordinates, and thermodynamically couples them with the uncooled blade's baseline temperature. Validation against full-scale 3D simulations demonstrates that the local generative network achieves a high coefficient of determination of 0.981. For full-blade reconstruction across various multi-hole layouts, the absolute prediction error across the majority of the blade surface remains within 0.12. Remarkably, the proposed method accelerates the complete global thermal field evaluation by three orders of magnitude. This physics-driven decoupling framework successfully preserves sharp thermal gradients, providing a reliable and highly efficient surrogate tool for the rapid parametric design optimization of next-generation turbine blades.
AB - Film cooling is a critical technology for protecting gas turbine blades from extreme thermal loads. However, the design of complex cooling configurations is severely constrained by the prohibitive computational cost of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations. Existing data-driven methods generally suffer from geometric rigidity, intrinsically coupling local fluid dynamics with global blade geometry, thereby requiring massive fully-cooled 3D datasets and costly retraining. To overcome these fundamental bottlenecks, this study proposes a physics-guided global-local deep learning framework for the rapid reconstruction of full-blade film cooling temperature fields. The fundamental novelty lies in effectively decoupling local flow physics from global geometric morphology. First, an adapted generative adversarial network is trained exclusively on computationally efficient canonical flat-plate data to capture high-fidelity local flow features. Subsequently, a deterministic global superposition reconstruction method is developed. It mathematically unwraps the complex 3D blade into a 2D plane, maps the local predictions using dimensionless coordinates, and thermodynamically couples them with the uncooled blade's baseline temperature. Validation against full-scale 3D simulations demonstrates that the local generative network achieves a high coefficient of determination of 0.981. For full-blade reconstruction across various multi-hole layouts, the absolute prediction error across the majority of the blade surface remains within 0.12. Remarkably, the proposed method accelerates the complete global thermal field evaluation by three orders of magnitude. This physics-driven decoupling framework successfully preserves sharp thermal gradients, providing a reliable and highly efficient surrogate tool for the rapid parametric design optimization of next-generation turbine blades.
KW - Gas turbine film cooling
KW - Generative adversarial networks
KW - Linear superposition
KW - Physics-guided deep learning
KW - Rapid reconstruction
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105042501392
U2 - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2026.132011
DO - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2026.132011
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:105042501392
SN - 1359-4311
VL - 302
JO - Applied Thermal Engineering
JF - Applied Thermal Engineering
M1 - 132011
ER -