scholarly journals Aerodynamic Analysis and Three-Dimensional Redesign of a Multi-Stage Axial Flow Compressor

Energies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Ning ◽  
Chun-Wei Gu ◽  
Wei-Dou Ni ◽  
Xiao-Tang Li ◽  
Tai-Qiu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Axial Flow ◽  
Axial Flow Compressor ◽  
Aerodynamic Analysis ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Flow Compressor

Axial-Flow Compressor Model Based on a Cascade Stacking Technique and Neural Networks

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Benini ◽  
Andrea Toffolo
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Axial Flow ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Cfd Simulations ◽  
Axial Flow Compressor ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Stator Vane ◽  
Flow Compressor

This paper introduces a cascade-stacking technique for the development of a gas turbine multi-stage axial-flow compressor model. A large database of stationary and rotating cascade performance is first obtained by quasi three-dimensional CFD simulations and used to train neural networks for the prediction of cascade performance under generalized conditions. Then the model directly calculates the operating point of a compressor having known geometry characteristics, including variable inlet guide/stator vane effects, as a function of mass flow rate and rotational speed. The model can also be used as a valuable preliminary design tool, obtaining geometry characteristics by imposing flow patterns.

Stability of Multi-Stage Axial Flow Compressors

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. T. Howell
Keyword(s):  
Axial Flow ◽  
Rotational Frequency ◽  
Oscillatory Instability ◽  
Operating Point ◽  
Axial Flow Compressor ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Surge Line ◽  
Flow Compressor ◽  
The Stability

SummaryThe following theoretical investigation is concerned with the stability of the flow through a system composed of a multi-stage axial flow compressor followed by a throttle.Such an investigation was carried out by Pearson and Bowmer in 1949. In 1962 Pearson’s work on the analysis of axial flow compressor characteristics, and the accumulation of empirical data regarding factors affecting the surge line, re-awakened interest in the possibility of predicting the surge line of a multi-stage axial flow compressor-throttle system.In this paper the equations governing the stability of flow at any operating point in such a system are obtained by applying Kirchhoff’s laws to the associated electric circuit at that operating point, and the analysis is applied to a wide range of flows of the calculated characteristics of a seven-stage axial flow compressor.A study of the simplest compressor-throttle system is given, in which the equations of motion of the system are derived mechanically and electrically, and the range of validity of the equations and their stability are discussed in order to bring out the relation between the mathematics and physics of the simple system before applying these methods to multi-stage axial flow compressors.For the relatively simple electrical representation used in this paper for an axial compressor of n stages, there are shown to be 2n possible values of p, the transient rotational frequency, and these are determined over a sufficiently wide range of flows on the seven-stage compressor studied.As a result, a region of the compressor characteristic map can be marked out in which all the values of the transient rotational frequency have their real parts less than zero, corresponding to stability of operation, a region where at least one of the values of p is real and positive corresponding to non-oscillatory instability of operation, and an intermediate region where some of the values of the rotational frequency p are complex with positive real part, corresponding to oscillatory instability of operation.It is suggested that the non-oscillatory instability found here is associated with the surge and the line of inception of non-oscillatory instability with the surge line.

Three-Dimensional Flow and Mixing in an Axial Flow Compressor With Different Rotor Tip Clearances

1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 675-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Goto
Keyword(s):  
Velocity Fluctuation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Axial Flow ◽  
Flow Fields ◽  
Tip Clearance ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Three Dimensional Flow ◽  
Axial Flow Compressor ◽  
Dimensional Flow ◽  
Flow Compressor

The effect of difference in rotor tip clearance on the mean flow fields and unsteadiness and mixing across a stator blade row were investigated using hot-wire anemometry, pressure probes, flow visualization, and the ethylene tracer-gas technique on a single-stage axial flow compressor. The structure of the three-dimensional flow fields was discussed based on results of experiments using the 12-orientation single slanted hotwire technique and spectrum analysis of velocity fluctuation. High-pass filtered measurements of turbulence were also carried out in order to confirm small-scale velocity fluctuation, which is more realistically referred to as turbulence. The span-wise distribution of ethylene gas spreading, estimated by the measured small-scale velocity fluctuation at the rotor exit, agreed quite well with that which was experimentally measured. This fact suggests the significant role of turbulence, generated within the rotor, in the mixing process across the downstream stator. The value of the maximum mixing coefficient in the tip region was found to increase linearly as the tip clearance became enlarged, starting from the value at midspan.

scholarly journals Three-dimensional through-flow modelling of axial flow compressor rotating stall and surge

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 271-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Righi ◽  
Vassilios Pachidis ◽  
László Könözsy ◽  
Lucas Pawsey
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Axial Flow ◽  
Rotating Stall ◽  
Axial Flow Compressor ◽  
Flow Modelling ◽  
Through Flow ◽  
Flow Compressor

Numerical Studies on Effect of Stepped Tip Clearance Height on the Performance of Single Stage Transonic Axial Flow Compressor

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pritam Batabyal ◽  
Dilipkumar B. Alone ◽  
S. K. Maharana
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Study ◽  
Pressure Ratio ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Axial Flow ◽  
Single Stage ◽  
Tip Clearance ◽  
Baseline Model ◽  
Axial Flow Compressor ◽  
Design Speed ◽  
Flow Compressor

This paper presents a numerical case study of various stepped tip clearances and their effect on the performance of a single stage transonic axial flow compressor, using commercially available software ANSYS FLUENT 14.0. A steady state, implicit, three dimensional, pressure based flow solver with SST k-Ω turbulence model has been selected for the numerical study. The stepped tip clearances have been compared with the baseline model of zero tip clearance at 70% and 100 % design speed. It has been observed that the compressor peak stage efficiency and maximum stage pressure ratio decreases as the tip clearances in the rear part are increased. The stall margin also increases with increase in tip clearance compared to the baseline model. An ‘optimum’ value of stepped tip clearance has been obtained giving peak stage compressor performance. The CFD results have been validated with the earlier published experimental data on the same compressor at 70% design speed.

Rotating Stall in a Single-Stage Axial Flow Compressor

1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Poensgen ◽  
H. E. Gallus
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Fluctuations ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Axial Flow ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Measured Data ◽  
Rotating Stall ◽  
Single Stage ◽  
Axial Flow Compressor ◽  
Flow Compressor ◽  
Modal Route

This paper describes the results on an experimental investigation of rotating stall flow inside a single-stage axial flow compressor. Tests were carried out in two steps. First, measurements were taken to investigate the transition process into rotating stall. The compressor starts into rotating stall via the “modal route” with a single rotating stall cell. Further throttling yields to a two-cell shape followed by a significant outlet pressure drop. Both transition processes are discussed in detail. Results from the Moore–Greitzer theory are compared with measured data. In a second step, measurements were taken to determine the three-dimensional unsteady structure of a fully developed rotating-stall cell. Based on unsteady total pressure and three-dimensional hot-wire data, the structure of a rotating stall cell could be resolved in detail upstream and downstream of the rotor. A typical part-span stall was found. By inserting the measured data into the Euler equations, convective and unsteady effects on the pressure fluctuations can be isolated. A dependence between the radial flow inside the stall cell and the unsteady flow accelerations was found.

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