scholarly journals Influence of the boundary layer suction on the flow behind three-dimensional roughness on the straight wing model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Pavlenko ◽  
V. S. Kaprilevskaya ◽  
V. V. Kozlov ◽  
M. M. Katasonov
2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-38
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Gaponov ◽  
Yuri G. Yermolaev ◽  
Aleksandr D. Kosinov ◽  
Nikolay V. Semionov ◽  
Boris V. Smorodsky

Theoretical and an experimental research results of the disturbances development in a swept wing boundary layer are presented at Mach number М = 2. In experiments development of natural and small amplitude controllable disturbances downstream was studied. Experiments were carried out on a swept wing model with a lenticular profile at a zero attack angle. The swept angle of a leading edge was 40°. Wave parameters of moving disturbances were determined. In frames of the linear theory and an approach of the local self-similar mean flow the stability of a compressible three-dimensional boundary layer is studied. Good agreement of the theory with experimental results for transversal scales of unstable vertices of the secondary flow was obtained. However the calculated amplification rates differ from measured values considerably. This disagreement is explained by the nonlinear processes observed in experiment


Author(s):  
Ping-Ping Chen ◽  
Wei-Yang Qiao ◽  
Karsten Liesner ◽  
Robert Meyer

The large secondary flow area in the compressor hub-corner region usually leads to three-dimensional separation in the passage with large amounts of total pressure loss. In this paper numerical simulations of a linear high-speed compressor cascade, consisting of five NACA 65-K48 stator profiles, were performed to analyze the flow mechanism of hub-corner separation for the base flow. Experimental validation is used to verify the numerical results. Active control of the hub-corner separation was investigated by using boundary layer suction. The influence of the selected locations of the endwall suction slot was investigated in an effort to quantify the gains of the compressor cascade performance. The results show that the optimal chordwise location should contain the development section of the three-dimensional corner separation downstream of the 3D corner separation onset. The best pitchwise location should be close enough to the vanes’ suction surface. Therefore the optimal endwall suction location is the MTE slot, the one from 50% to 75% chord at the hub, close to the blade suction surface. By use of the MTE slot with 1% suction flow ratio, the total-pressure loss is substantially decreased by about 15.2% in the CFD calculations and 9.7% in the measurement at the design operating condition.


Author(s):  
Zhiyuan Cao ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Ting Zhang

In order to explore the control mechanism of boundary layer suction on the separated flows of highly loaded diffusion cascades, a linear compressor cascade, which has separated flows on the whole span and three-dimensional separations over the suction surface/endwall corner, was investigated by tailored boundary layer suction. Three suction surface-slotted schemes and two combined suction surface/endwall-slotted schemes were designed. The original cascade and the cascade with part blade span suction were experimentally investigated on a high-subsonic cascade wind tunnel. In addition, numerical simulation was employed to study the flow fields of different suction schemes in detail. The results shows that while tailored boundary layer suction at part blade span can effectively remove the separations at the suction span, the flow fields of other spans deteriorated. The reasons are the ‘C’ shape or reverse ‘C’ shape spanwise distribution of static pressure after part blade span boundary layer suction. Suction surface boundary layer suction over the whole span can obviously eliminate the separation at the suction surface. However, because of the endwall boundary layer, suction surface boundary layer suction cannot effectively remove the corner three-dimensional separation. The separation over the whole span and the three-dimensional separation at the corner are completely eliminated by combined suction surface/endwall boundary layer suction. After combined boundary layer suction, the static pressure distribution over the blade span just like the shape of ‘C’ is good for the transport of the low-energy fluid near the endwall to the midspan.


Author(s):  
Shaowen Chen ◽  
Zhihua Zhou ◽  
Songtao Wang ◽  
Zhongqi Wang

Boundary layer suction is considered to be an available approach to restraining or even eliminating flow separation and to improve the aerodynamic performance of the compressor. In this paper, a highly loaded axial-flow aspirated compressor based on a low-reaction design concept is investigated in detail to find an appropriate flow control strategy for boundary layer suction to achieve significant performance benefit. The flow control strategy consists mainly of the arrangement of suction hole and the aspirated flow rate. The geometrical models including aspiration cannulas, stator cavity and aspiration channel are novelly applied in this research to approach a real engineering application. Complete compressor maps are predicted by a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics simulation. The distribution of the typical aerodynamic parameters and the partial flow structures are analysed at design and off-design conditions. Three-dimensional separation near the stall point is effectively suppressed by the aspiration on both hub and shroud, and better performance is achieved by a reasonable increase of aspirated flow rate; a peak efficiency of 0.91 and a total pressure ratio of 1.055 are attained at a total aspirated flow rate of 0.024 kg/s per passage. However, sudden turning of compressor maps at low inlet flow rate occurs without the aspiration on shroud, and a noticeable deterioration in performance occurs with the decreasing of the inlet flow rate. The main reason of performance deterioration is that the flow control efficiency of aspiration is not enough for effectively suppressing three-dimensional separation near the casing corner. The difference in the aspirated flow source is owed to the distinct flow feature at various locations caused by the aspiration efficiency of suction holes. A partial auto-readjustment feature of the suction flow rate with increasing flow separation has been found. The boundary layer suction with an appropriate flow control strategy is necessary for a higher efficiency, highly loaded aspiration compressor.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2119 (1) ◽  
pp. 012005
Author(s):  
V S Kaprilevskaya ◽  
A M Pavlenko ◽  
M M Katasonov ◽  
V V Kozlov

Abstract The paper is devoted to the close investigation of the flow over perforated suction section in the presence of the three-dimensional roughness element. Measurements were conducted over the surface of the straight wing with and without suction. It was shown that distributed suction allows diminishing the intensity of longitudinal structure. Also the boundaries of the effective suction usage were found.


Author(s):  
Ding Jun ◽  
Du Xin ◽  
Chen Shaowen ◽  
Zhou Xun ◽  
Wang Songtao ◽  
...  

The impact of boundary layer suction on the aerodynamic performance of bowed compressor cascades is discussed in this paper. Preliminary studies are conducted in the context of a highly loaded compressor cascade with peak diffusion factor of 0.60 and camber angle of 60 degrees. Comparison between numerical simulation results and experiment data shows that blade bowing may well help to modify the radial migration of flow features and prevent the blade suction surface boundary layer from separating. It is noteworthy that there exists an optimum blade bowing design with different operating conditions to increase the incidence range and reduce the loss over the incidence range. With the introduction of the boundary layer suction, the blade design becomes more complicated. This paper, therefore, conducts a thorough numerical study on design parameters including bowed blade geometry, aspirated flow fraction, and aspiration slot location based on mechanical simplicity and fabrication constraints. For a better understanding of the flow physics, the aspiration slot and plenum are included as part of the computational domain. The aspirated fluid passes into the plenum and is removed through both the hub and the shroud of the blade. From there it can be dumped overboard or carried to another point in the engine to be used as cooling air. Without considering the stagnation pressure loss of the aspirated flow, the blade lose can be sustainably decreased with the growing aspirated flow fractions from 0.5% to 2.5% of the inlet mass flow. However, when the aspirated flow’s effect on stagnation pressure loss is properly quantified, the blade’s loss decreasing trend will be relatively stable or even reversed with the aspirated flow fraction increasing. The calculations show that the application of aspiration on the flow path needs to be investigated and combined with blade bowing to partly counter the negative impacts with the application of aspiration. The application of blade bowing on aspirated blade makes it possible to achieve the same loss reduction by using lower amounts of aspirated flow. In other words, the increase in spanwise pressure gradient near the endwalls can be further utilized to reduce the effects of secondary flow by bowed blade with the same aspirated flow fraction. Aspiration should not be isolated from blade bowing, the optimum blade bowing angle is different on the basis of different aspirated flow fraction and aspiration slot location. The aspiration slot location is determined by the flow phenomena such as the three-dimensional separation in the cascade corner. In consideration of the stagnation pressure loss from the aspirated flow, aspiration inside of the three-dimensional separation region has a beneficial impact on the blade loss. Conversely, it will quickly lose its effectiveness, or even lead to slight deterioration of the aerodynamic performance if aspiration location is in the midspan, outside the three-dimensional separation region.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-478
Author(s):  
M. M. Katasonov ◽  
V. S. Kaprilevskaya ◽  
V. V. Kozlov ◽  
A. M. Pavlenko

Author(s):  
Longxin Zhang ◽  
Songtao Wang

Aspirated compressor is a promising design concept to enhance the power density of the compression system; however, with regard to the rear stages of multistage aspirated compressor, the blade is fairly thin. Limited by the mechanical constraints, it seems impractical to implement the boundary layer suction on the blade suction surface. So the question arising is can we replace the blade suction surface with other feasible flow control methods without implementing extra device on the blade? To address this issue, a compound flow control method, composed of the endwall boundary layer suction and tandem blade, is proposed. The design philosophy is to utilize the EBLS to suppress the three-dimensional corner stall while to use the tandem blade to control the two-dimensional airfoil flow separation. The endwall boundary layer suction is barely implemented in the forward blade, whereas the corner flow in the rear blade is restrained by the flow through the gap between the forward and rear blades. The preliminary implement strategy of the compound flow control was presented and then applied in the design of a highly loaded aspirated compressor outlet vane. Three-dimensional numerical simulations were carried out to validate its effectiveness with different inlet boundary layer distributions. Both flow fields in the outlet vane and its loss characteristics were analyzed. The results show that, by applying the compound flow control, the outlet vane could not only achieve an aggressive loading without incurring large-scale separation at the design point but also have a considerable available incidence range. Due to the implement of the endwall boundary layer suction, the tandem blade can bring out its full potential in the two-dimensional flow control. Moreover, owing to the flow through the gap of the forward and rear blades, the aspiration flow rate required for the suppression of the three-dimensional corner stall can be reduced.


2007 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Semiu A. Gbadebo ◽  
Nicholas A. Cumpsty ◽  
Tom P. Hynes

One of the important ways of improving turbomachinery compressor performance is to control three-dimensional (3D) separations, which form over the suction surface and end wall corner of the blade passage. Based on the insights gained into the formation of these separations, this paper illustrates how an appropriately applied boundary layer suction of up to 0.7% of inlet mass flow can control and eliminate typical compressor stator hub corner 3D separation over a range of operating incidence. The paper describes, using computational fluid dynamics, the application of suction on the blade suction surface and end wall boundary layers and exemplifies the influence of end wall dividing streamline in initiating 3D separation in the blade passage. The removal of the separated region from the blade suction surface is confirmed by an experimental investigation in a compressor cascade involving surface flow visualization, surface static pressure, and exit loss measurements. The ensuing passage flow field is characterized by increased blade loading (static pressure difference between pressure and suction surface), enhanced average static pressure rise, significant loss removal, and a uniform exit flow. This result also enables the contribution of the 3D separation to the overall loss and passage blockage to be assessed.


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