Experimental investigation on relationship between heat transfer and sealing characteristics under different pressure ratios in labyrinth seals with orthogonal method

25 models are designed according to the orthogonal table, to study the comprehensive relationship between heat transfer and sealing characteristics in straight-through labyrinth seals with different geometrical parameters. The experimental investigations are carried out at different pressure ratios of 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8. The results show that different geometry parameters brought obvious different influence on both leakage efficiency and heat transfer characteristics, and in which the parameters (H, c,b) have the most significant influence on leakage efficiency, and heat transfer characteristics under different pressure ratios, whose small changes in size can lead to performance optimization in leakage and heat transfer. The geometrical parameters always show consistent influence on leakage efficiency and heat transfer characteristics, while heat transfer characteristics show larger vibration with the increase of pressure ratio.(c) 2022 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier BV on behalf of Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-nd/4.0/).