Large Eddy Simulation of a Condensing Wet Steam Turbine Cascade

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Post ◽  
Benjamin Winhart ◽  
Francesca di Mare
Keyword(s):  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Isotropic Turbulence ◽  
Turbulence Modeling ◽  
Wave Structure ◽  
Condensation Process ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Numerical Treatment ◽  
Turbine Cascade ◽  
Wet Steam ◽  
Eddy Simulation

Abstract The influence of turbulence modeling approach by means of (U)RANS and LES on the overall modeling of turbulent condensing wet steam flows is investigated using the example of a low-pressure steam turbine cascade. For an accurate numerical treatment of turbulence in presence of shock waves, necessary for predictive scale-resolving computations, a hybrid flux treatment switches between a baseline non-dissipative central flux in energy consistent split form and a shock-capturing upwind flux in shocked regions based on a shock sensor. Condensation is realized by a mono-dispersed Euler-Euler source term model, the equation of state by the highly efficient and accurate SBTL tabulation. The numerical treatment is validated with a decay of homogeneous isotropic turbulence test case containing eddy shocklets. The measurement results of the condensing wet steam cascade are overall much better matched by LES compared to RANS and URANS. Analysis shows that the LES is much better able to account for the inherently unsteady nature of the spontaneous condensation process and its interaction with the trailing edge shock wave structure.

Large Eddy Simulation of a Condensing Wet Steam Turbine Cascade

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Post ◽  
Benjamin Winhart ◽  
Francesca di Mare
Keyword(s):  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Isotropic Turbulence ◽  
Turbulence Modeling ◽  
Wave Structure ◽  
Condensation Process ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Numerical Treatment ◽  
Turbine Cascade ◽  
Wet Steam ◽  
Eddy Simulation

Abstract The influence of turbulence modeling approach by means of (U)RANS and LES on the overall modeling of turbulent condensing wet steam flows is investigated using the example of a low-pressure steam turbine cascade. For an accurate numerical treatment of turbulence in presence of shock waves, necessary for predictive scale-resolving computations, a hybrid flux treatment switches between a baseline non-dissipative central flux in energy consistent split form and a shock-capturing upwind flux in shocked regions based on a shock sensor. Condensation is realized by a mono-dispersed Euler-Euler source term model, the equation of state by the highly efficient and accurate SBTL tabulation. The numerical treatment is validated with a decay of homogeneous isotropic turbulence test case containing eddy shocklets. The measurement results of the condensing wet steam cascade are overall much better matched by LES compared to RANS and URANS. Analysis shows that the LES is much better able to account for the inherently unsteady nature of the spontaneous condensation process and its interaction with the trailing edge shock wave structure.

Large Eddy Simulation of a Condensing Wet Steam Turbine Cascade

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Post ◽  
Benjamin Winhart ◽  
Francesca Di Mare
Keyword(s):  
Large Eddy Simulation ◽  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Turbine Cascade ◽  
Wet Steam ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Large Eddy

The Influence of Non-Equilibrium Wet Steam Effects on the Aeroelastic Properties of a Turbine Blade Row

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Fuhrer ◽  
Marius Grübel ◽  
Damian M. Vogt ◽  
Paul Petrie-Repar
Keyword(s):  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Turbine Blade ◽  
Ideal Gas ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Steam Turbines ◽  
Wet Steam ◽  
Flow Conditions ◽  
Flutter Analysis ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
Non Equilibrium

Turbine blade flutter is a concern for the manufacturers of steam turbines. Typically, the length of last stage blades of large steam turbines is over one meter. These long blades are susceptible to flutter because of their low structural frequency and supersonic tip speeds with oblique shocks and their reflections. Although steam condensation has usually occurred by the last stage, ideal gas is mostly assumed when performing flutter analysis for steam turbines. The results of a flutter analysis of a 2D steam turbine test case which examine the influence of non-equilibrium wet steam are presented. The geometry and flow conditions of the test case are supposed to be similar to the flow near the tip in a steam turbine as this is where most of the unsteady aerodynamic work contributing to flutter is done. The unsteady flow simulations required for the flutter analysis are performed by ANSYS CFX. Three fluid models are examined: ideal gas, equilibrium wet steam (EQS) and non-equilibrium wet steam (NES), of which NES reflects the reality most. Previous studies have shown that a good agreement between ideal gas and EQS simulations can be achieved if the prescribed ratio of specific heats is equal to the equilibrium polytropic index of the wet steam flow through the turbine. In this paper the results of a flutter analysis are presented for the 2D test case at flow conditions with wet steam at the inlet. The investigated plunge mode normal to chord is similar to a bending mode around the turbine axis for a freestanding blade in 3D. The influence of the overall wetness fraction and the size of the water droplets at the inlet are examined. The results show an increase of aerodynamic damping for all investigated interblade phase angles with a reduction of droplet size. The influence of the wetness fraction is in comparison of less importance.

Numerical Investigation of Turbulence Modelling on Condensing Steam Flows in Turbine Cascade

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yogini Patel ◽  
Teemu Turunen-Saaresti ◽  
Giteshkumar Patel ◽  
Aki Grönman
Keyword(s):  
Turbulence Modeling ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Turbulence Models ◽  
Turbulence Modelling ◽  
Nucleation Theory ◽  
Classical Nucleation Theory ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Condensation Process ◽  
Turbine Cascade ◽  
Lp Turbine

Understanding the condensation process at the low-pressure (LP) turbine is important because condensation introduces extra losses, and erosion caused by the droplets wear turbine blades. The paper presents an investigation of the turbulence modelling on the non-equilibrium homogeneous condensing steam flow in a stationary turbine cascade employing 2D compressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equations. The classical nucleation theory is utilized to model the condensation phenomena. The performance of various turbulence models (i.e., the Spalart-Allmaras, the k-ω, the k-ε, the RNG k-ε, the Realizable k-ε, and the SST k-ω) in condensing steam flows is discussed. The SST k-ω model is modified and implemented into a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. Substantial improvements in the prediction accuracy are observed when compared with the original SST k-ω model. Overall, the modified model is in excellent agreement with the measurements in all studied test cases of the turbine cascade. The qualitative and quantitative analysis illustrates the importance of turbulence modeling in wet-steam flows.

Effect of blade surface roughness on condensation process in a stator cascade

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 4067-4081
Author(s):  
Xu Han ◽  
Xiangyu Liu ◽  
Yunyun Yuan ◽  
Zhonghe Han
Keyword(s):  
Surface Roughness ◽  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Nucleation Rate ◽  
Condensation Process ◽  
Flow State ◽  
Blade Surface ◽  
Wet Steam ◽  
Control Effect ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sensitive Region

Purpose The flow state of wet steam will affect the thermodynamic and aerodynamic characteristics of steam turbine. The purpose of this study is to effectively control the wetness losses caused by wet steam condensation, and hence a cascade of 600 MW steam turbine was taken as the research object. Design/methodology/approach The influence of blade surface roughness on the condensation characteristics was analyzed, and the dehumidification mechanism and wetness control effect were obtained. Findings With the increase of blade surface roughness, the peak nucleation rate decreases gradually. According to the Mach number distribution on the blade surface, there is a sensitive region for the influence of roughness on the aerodynamic performance of cascade. The sensitive region of nucleation rate roughness should be between 50 and 150 µm. Originality/value The increase of blade surface roughness will increase the dynamic loss in cascade, but it can reduce the thermodynamic loss caused by condensation to a certain extent.

scholarly journals Numerical Investigation of Boundary Layers in Wet Steam Nozzles

2016 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Starzmann ◽  
Fiona R. Hughes ◽  
Alexander J. White ◽  
Marius Grübel ◽  
Damian M. Vogt
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Boundary Layers ◽  
Turbulence Modeling ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Side Wall ◽  
Turbulence Models ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Wet Steam ◽  
Compression Waves ◽  
Wall Boundary Layer

Condensing nozzle flows have been used extensively to validate wet steam models. Many test cases are available in the literature, and in the past, a range of numerical studies have dealt with this challenging task. It is usually assumed that the nozzles provide a one- or two-dimensional flow with a fully turbulent boundary layer (BL). The present paper reviews these assumptions and investigates numerically the influence of boundary layers on dry and wet steam nozzle expansions. For the narrow nozzle of Moses and Stein, it is shown that the pressure distribution is significantly affected by the additional blockage due to the side wall boundary layer. Comparison of laminar and turbulent flow predictions for this nozzles suggests that laminar–turbulent transition only occurs after the throat. Other examples are the Binnie and Green nozzle and the Moore et al. nozzles for which it is known that sudden changes in wall curvature produce expansion and compression waves that interact with the boundary layers. The differences between two- and three-dimensional calculations for these cases and the influence of laminar and turbulent boundary layers are discussed. The present results reveal that boundary layer effects can have a considerable impact on the mean nozzle flow and thus on the validation process of condensation models. In order to verify the accuracy of turbulence modeling, a test case that is not widely known internationally is included within the present study. This experimental work is remarkable because it includes boundary layer data as well as the usual pressure measurements along the nozzle centerline. Predicted and measured boundary layer profiles are compared, and the effect of different turbulence models is discussed. Most of the numerical results are obtained with the in-house wet steam Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) solver, Steamblock, but for the purpose of comparison, the commercial program ansys cfx is also used, providing a wider range of standard RANS-based turbulence models.

scholarly journals Large-Eddy Simulation of Wind Turbine Flows: A New Evaluation of Actuator Disk Models

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3745
Author(s):  
Tristan Revaz ◽  
Fernando Porté-Agel
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Simple Model ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Wake Flow ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Flow Solver ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Large Eddy ◽  
Layer Flow ◽  
Advanced Model

Large-eddy simulation (LES) with actuator models has become the state-of-the-art numerical tool to study the complex interaction between the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) and wind turbines. In this paper, a new evaluation of actuator disk models (ADMs) for LES of wind turbine flows is presented. Several details of the implementation of such models are evaluated based on a test case studied experimentally. In contrast to other test cases used in previous similar studies, the present test case consists of a wind turbine immersed in a realistic turbulent boundary-layer flow, for which accurate data for the turbine, the flow, the thrust and the power are available. It is found that the projection of the forces generated by the turbine into the flow solver grid is crucial for rotor predictions, especially for the power, and less important for the wake flow prediction. In this context, the projection of the forces into the flow solver grid should be as accurate as possible, in order to conserve the consistency between the computed axial velocity and the projected axial force. Also, the projection of the force is found to be much more important in the rotor plane directions than in the streamwise direction. It is found that for the case of a wind turbine immersed in a realistic turbulent boundary-layer flow, the potential spurious numerical oscillations originating from sharp force projections are not harmful to the results. By comparing an advanced model which computes the non-uniform distribution of the turbine forces over the rotor with a simple model which assumes uniform effects of the turbine forces, it is found that both can lead to accurate results for the far wake flow and the thrust and power predictions. However, the comparison shows that the advanced model leads to better results for the near wake flow. In addition, it is found that the simple model overestimates the rotor velocity prediction in comparison to the advanced model. These elements are explained by the lack of local feedback between the axial velocity and the axial force in the simple model. By comparing simulations with and without including the effects of the nacelle and tower, it is found that the consideration of the nacelle and tower is relatively important both for the near wake and the power prediction, due to the shadow effects. The grid resolution is not found to be critical once a reasonable resolution is used, i.e. in the order of 10 grid points along each direction across the rotor. The comparison with the experimental data shows that an accurate prediction of the flow, thrust, and power is possible with a very reasonable computational cost. Overall, the results give important guidelines for the implementation of ADMs for LES.

scholarly journals A linear cascade tunnel for flow investigations of steam turbine rotor tip blades in subsonic nucleating flows

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vital Kumar Yadav Pillala ◽  
B. V. S. S. S. Prasad ◽  
N. Sitaram ◽  
M. Mahendran ◽  
Debasish Biswas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Turbine Rotor ◽  
Turbine Cascade ◽  
Flow Measurements ◽  
Linear Cascade ◽  
Dry Air ◽  
Steam Turbine Rotor ◽  
Pressure Distributions ◽  
Working Medium ◽  
Exit Mach Number

AbstractThe paper presents details of a unique experimental facility along with necessary accessories and instrumentation for testing steam turbine cascade blades in wet and nucleating steam. A steam turbine rotor tip cascade is chosen for flow investigations. Cascade inlet flow measurements show uniform conditions with dry air and steam and dry air mixture of different ratios. Exit flow surveys indicate that excellent flow periodicity is obtained. Blade surface static pressure and exit total pressure distributions are also presented with dry air and with steam and dry air mixture of different ratios as the working medium at an exit Mach number of 0.52.

Paper 23: The Collision of Drops with Dry and Wet Surfaces in an Air Atmosphere

1969 ◽  
Vol 184 (7) ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
G. J. Parker ◽  
E. Bruen
Keyword(s):  
Steam Turbine ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Size Range ◽  
Drop Surface ◽  
Wet Steam ◽  
Air Atmosphere ◽  
Made In

This paper describes an investigation into the behaviour of drops which impinge upon dry and wet surfaces. This is of particular interest in the context of the wet steam turbine. Two approaches have been made in the studies; these are: (1) Drops were made to impinge normally on to various types of dry, stationary surfaces. The drops were in the size range 300–1500 μm diameter with velocities of 2–9 m/s. (2) Drops were made to impinge on to surfaces moving with considerable velocity at right angles to the motion of the drop. Surface velocities ranged up to 45 m/s. The latter study is of direct interest for the splashing of drops on turbine casings at small glancing angles, as occurs near drainage belts. Analysis of the mechanisms involved is made from the records of high-speed ciné photography.

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