Numerical investigation on bowed blades of large meridional expansion Turbine

To improve the performance of the Turbofan engine,several measures should be considered during design process.Such measures,relating to aerodynamic characteristic design,include the maximum enthalpy per stage,the shortest axial length,the minimum blade rows and the highest efficient in design and off design condition.To satisfy theses design characters,the meridian geometry of the engine will be excurvature at a high degree transition part between HP and LP turbines.The study is to investigate the effect of blade bowing on flow loss at blade tip and root of the type of turbine.Such turbine,tending towards separation,with severe secondary flow at the tip and strong radial flow at exit,was simulated by the 3D N-S solver Numerca,and there were several different stacking line bowing schemes in all.The results show that tip negative bowing and root positive bowing is able to weaken radial flow,consequently reduce the flow loss at the tip and root.

Application of new techniques to renovation of 200 MW steam turbine

Presents the new techniques leading to the improvements in aerodynamics of 200MW steam turbine high pressure cylinder and mid pressure cylinder, discusses the rear loaded profile and blade bowing, and concludes from numerical simulation and experimental results that the application of rear loaded profile and blade bowing has improved the performance of 200 MW unit.

Influence of coupled boundary layer suction and bowed blade on flow field and performance of a diffusion cascade

Based on the investigation of mid-span local boundary layer suction and positive bowed cascade, a coupled local tailored boundary layer suction and positive bowed blade method is developed to improve the performance of a highly loaded diffusion cascade with less suction slot. The effectiveness of the coupled method under different inlet boundary layers is also investigated.Results show that mid-span local boundary layer suction can effectively remove trailing edge separation, but deteriorate the flow fields near the endwall. The positive bowed cascade is beneficial for reducing open corner separation, but is detrimental to mid-span flow fields. The coupled method can further improve the performance and flow field of the cascade. The mid-span trailing edge separation and open corner separation are eliminated. Compared with linear cascade with suction, the coupled method reduces overall loss of the cascade by 31.4% at most. The mid-span loss of the cascade decreases as the suction coefficient increases, but increases as bow angle increases. The endwall loss increases as the suction coefficient increases. By contrast, the endwall loss decreases significantly as the bow angle increases. The endwall loss of coupled controlled cascade is higher than that of bowed cascade with the same bow angle because of the spanwise inverse ‘‘C＂ shaped static pressure distribution. Under different inlet boundary layer conditions, the coupled method can also improve the cascade effectively.

Computational Study on the Boundary Layer Suction Effects in the Supersonic Compressor Flow with a Bowed Blade

Flow control methodologies have been widely used to eliminating flow separation and increasing the blade load in axial compressor.Aiming at revealing the flow mechanism of coupled bowed blading and boundary layer suction in a supersonic compressor cascade,a cascade with a diffusion coefficient of 0.62 is numerically presented.First of all,according to the available experimental data,the numerical method was validated;then,different bowed blading effects on flow field in detail were investigated;at last,based on the flow physics of purely bowed blading,the positively bowed blade was coupled with boundary layer suction on blade suction surface,whereas the negatively bowed blade was coupled with endwall suction.For coupled control method,influence mechanism on flow field,especially on the shock structure was revealed,and different aspect ratios of coupled control method were investigated as well.Results showed that the coupled positively bowed blading and suction surface suction can eliminate the flow separation effectively.Compared with that of baseline supersonic cascade,the total pressure loss coefficient of the coupled scheme was reduced by 37.4%at most.At mid-span,the shock moved downstream and the single shock was separated to a dual-shock structure since the positively bowed blading reduced the static pressure of mid-span.The coupled negatively bowed blading and endwall suction also effectively enhanced the performance of cascade by removing the corner separation,with the loss coefficient reduced by as much as 41.9%.However,the suction coefficient of optimal coupled negatively bowed blading scheme reached 10.5%,which is too high for practical use.After coupled control,the 3 D shock structure became“C”shaped distribution along spanwise because of the difference in influence mechanism of negatively bowed blading on different spanwise location.Due to the opposite influence effect of positively and negatively bowed blading,the shock structure in the two different schemes of cascades were different and showed opposite variation trends as aspect ratio increased.