The transition process within a Laminar Separation Bubble(LSB)that formed on a compressor blade surface was investigated using Large Eddy Simulations(LESs)at a Reynolds number of 1.5×10;and incidence angles of 0&...The transition process within a Laminar Separation Bubble(LSB)that formed on a compressor blade surface was investigated using Large Eddy Simulations(LESs)at a Reynolds number of 1.5×10;and incidence angles of 0°,+3°,and+5°.The vortex dynamics in the separated shear layers were compared at various incidence angles and its effects on the loss generation were clarified through entropy analysis.Results showed that transition onset,which was accurately identified by the Linear Stability Theory(LST),was significantly promoted at the increased incidence angle.As such,the development of LSB was suppressed and the relative role of viscous instability played in the transition process was weakened.At the incidence angle of 0°,two-dimensional spanwise vortices detached from the blade surface and roiled up periodically,which were further stretched and eventually evolved into large-scale hairpin vortices.As time passed,the fully developed hairpin vortices broke down into small-scale eddies.Meanwhile,the flow near the wall reversely ejected into the outer separated shear layers and a sweeping process happened subsequently,forcing the separated shear layers to reattach and accelerating the generation of turbulent fluctuations.By comparison,the strength of vortex rolling-up was weakened at higher incidence angles,and the vortex pairing and breakdown of large-scale vortices were less pronounced.Therefore,the level of turbulent fluctuations that generated in the separated shear layers was reduced.Detailed entropy analysis showed that the turbulent dissipation effect related to the Reynolds shear stresses determined the largest amount of positive entropy generation,which declined to a lower level as the incidence angle increased from 0°to+5°.Correspondingly,the profile loss was reduced by 50.4%.展开更多
This study numerically investigated a single stage centrifugal compressor "Radiver" with a wedge diffuser and several tandem-designed impellers to explore the flow phenomena within the tandem impeller and th...This study numerically investigated a single stage centrifugal compressor "Radiver" with a wedge diffuser and several tandem-designed impellers to explore the flow phenomena within the tandem impeller and the potential to enhance compressor performance.The results demonstrate that tandem design and clocking fraction(ks)significantly affects the compressor performance.The compressor stage with tandem impellers of Series A of boundary layer growth interruption alone are observed to have a widely operating range but efficiency and total pressure ratio penalty compared with that of conventional impeller.The tandem impeller with at least the same impeller efficiency as the conventional design is considered as a critical design criteria so that further modification process based on the flow characteristic of tandem impeller is necessary.In order to restrain the inducer wake and exducer shock losses,parameters modification of blade angle and thickness distributions are necessary and the modified tandem impeller of Series B is obtained.The modified tandem impeller with 25%clocking arrangement shows an 8.45%stall margin increase and maintains the total pressure ratio and efficiency as the conventional design,which proves the potential of tandem impeller to improve compressor stage performance.It is noteworthy that the tandem impellers of Radiver have not shown obviously balanced exit flow field and the fundamental mechanism of stall margin extending of tandem impeller lies on the improved impeller/diffuser matching performance resulting from the incidence angle variation at diffuser inlet.展开更多
With the intermediate flow states predicted by local two phase Riemann problem,the modified ghost fluid method(MGFM)and its variant(r GFM)have been widely employed to resolve the interface condition in the simulation ...With the intermediate flow states predicted by local two phase Riemann problem,the modified ghost fluid method(MGFM)and its variant(r GFM)have been widely employed to resolve the interface condition in the simulation of compressible multi-medium flows.In this work,the drawback of the construction procedure of local two phase Riemann problem in r GFM was investigated in detail,and a refined version of the construction procedure was specially developed to make the simulation of underwater explosion bubbles more accurate and robust.Beside the refined r GFM,the fast and accurate particle level set method was also adopted to achieve a more effective and computationally efficient capture of the evolving multi-medium interfaces during the simulation.To demonstrate the improvement brought by current refinement,several typical numerical examples of underwater explosion bubbles were performed with original r GFM and refined r GFM,respectively.The results indicate that,when compared with original r GFM,numerical oscillations were effectively removed with the proposed refinement.Accordingly,with present refined treatment of interface condition,a more accurate and robust simulation of underwater explosion bubbles was accomplished in this work.展开更多
基金co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51836008)the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(No.2017-II-0010-0024)。
文摘The transition process within a Laminar Separation Bubble(LSB)that formed on a compressor blade surface was investigated using Large Eddy Simulations(LESs)at a Reynolds number of 1.5×10;and incidence angles of 0°,+3°,and+5°.The vortex dynamics in the separated shear layers were compared at various incidence angles and its effects on the loss generation were clarified through entropy analysis.Results showed that transition onset,which was accurately identified by the Linear Stability Theory(LST),was significantly promoted at the increased incidence angle.As such,the development of LSB was suppressed and the relative role of viscous instability played in the transition process was weakened.At the incidence angle of 0°,two-dimensional spanwise vortices detached from the blade surface and roiled up periodically,which were further stretched and eventually evolved into large-scale hairpin vortices.As time passed,the fully developed hairpin vortices broke down into small-scale eddies.Meanwhile,the flow near the wall reversely ejected into the outer separated shear layers and a sweeping process happened subsequently,forcing the separated shear layers to reattach and accelerating the generation of turbulent fluctuations.By comparison,the strength of vortex rolling-up was weakened at higher incidence angles,and the vortex pairing and breakdown of large-scale vortices were less pronounced.Therefore,the level of turbulent fluctuations that generated in the separated shear layers was reduced.Detailed entropy analysis showed that the turbulent dissipation effect related to the Reynolds shear stresses determined the largest amount of positive entropy generation,which declined to a lower level as the incidence angle increased from 0°to+5°.Correspondingly,the profile loss was reduced by 50.4%.
基金financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51876022 and 51836008)
文摘This study numerically investigated a single stage centrifugal compressor "Radiver" with a wedge diffuser and several tandem-designed impellers to explore the flow phenomena within the tandem impeller and the potential to enhance compressor performance.The results demonstrate that tandem design and clocking fraction(ks)significantly affects the compressor performance.The compressor stage with tandem impellers of Series A of boundary layer growth interruption alone are observed to have a widely operating range but efficiency and total pressure ratio penalty compared with that of conventional impeller.The tandem impeller with at least the same impeller efficiency as the conventional design is considered as a critical design criteria so that further modification process based on the flow characteristic of tandem impeller is necessary.In order to restrain the inducer wake and exducer shock losses,parameters modification of blade angle and thickness distributions are necessary and the modified tandem impeller of Series B is obtained.The modified tandem impeller with 25%clocking arrangement shows an 8.45%stall margin increase and maintains the total pressure ratio and efficiency as the conventional design,which proves the potential of tandem impeller to improve compressor stage performance.It is noteworthy that the tandem impellers of Radiver have not shown obviously balanced exit flow field and the fundamental mechanism of stall margin extending of tandem impeller lies on the improved impeller/diffuser matching performance resulting from the incidence angle variation at diffuser inlet.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.041322062 and 51075004)the Foundation of Zhejiang Educational Committee(Grant No.529003+G21144)
文摘With the intermediate flow states predicted by local two phase Riemann problem,the modified ghost fluid method(MGFM)and its variant(r GFM)have been widely employed to resolve the interface condition in the simulation of compressible multi-medium flows.In this work,the drawback of the construction procedure of local two phase Riemann problem in r GFM was investigated in detail,and a refined version of the construction procedure was specially developed to make the simulation of underwater explosion bubbles more accurate and robust.Beside the refined r GFM,the fast and accurate particle level set method was also adopted to achieve a more effective and computationally efficient capture of the evolving multi-medium interfaces during the simulation.To demonstrate the improvement brought by current refinement,several typical numerical examples of underwater explosion bubbles were performed with original r GFM and refined r GFM,respectively.The results indicate that,when compared with original r GFM,numerical oscillations were effectively removed with the proposed refinement.Accordingly,with present refined treatment of interface condition,a more accurate and robust simulation of underwater explosion bubbles was accomplished in this work.
