Instability Inception of a Single Rotor Embedded in a Transonic Stage with Partial Surge Inception

Partial surge is a type of instability inception discovered in our previous studies.It has been confirmed that partial surge is localized in the blade hub region,and the flow oscillation it caused will lead to the stall cells in the rotor tip.While since all information about partial surge is obtained from the compressor stage experiments,what will happen to the stall process after the stators are removed is also an issue that worth investigating.So,in this paper,a series of experiments are carried out on the single rotor embedded in the transonic compressor stage with partial surge inception.First,the experimental results under uniform inlet conditions show that,although partial surge appears at high rotor speed in the stage case,it does not occur at any speed in the single rotor case.Then,it is found by numerical simulation that the absence of partial surge may be due to the insufficient rotor hub loading,so an experiment with increased hub loading is carried out,but still fails to trigger partial surge.Finally,the reason why partial surge doesn’t occur in the single rotor is discussed.From these results,it can be concluded that partial surge cannot occur in the single rotor case,and the large-scale comer separation in the stator hub is considered to play an important role in the formation of partial surge.

Aerodynamic Sweeping Study and Design for Transonic Compressor Rotor blades

The objective of the present paper is to study the sweep effect on the blade design performance of a transonic compressor rotor.The baseline to be modified and swept is a designed well efficient transonic single rotor compressor. The first part of the present study is concerning the sweep effect with straight leading edge.In this case fixing the hub section the swept blade is formed by tilting the leading edge with whole blade forwards and backwards axially.The second part is to use an optimization strategy with simple gradient-based optimum-searching method and multi-section blade parameterization technique to search and generate an optimal swept rotor with curved arbitrary leading edge.Its adiabatic efficiency is a little bit greater than that of the reference un-swept rotor.

Lessons from Rotor 37

NASA rotor 37 was used as a ’blind’ test case for turbomachinery CFD by the Turbimachinery Com-mittee of the IGTI. The rotor is a transonic compressor with a tip speed of 454 m/s (15OO ft/s) anda relatively high pressure ratio of 2.1. It was tested in isolation with a circumferentially uniform inletflow so that the flow through it should be steady apart from any effects of passage to passage geometry variation and mechanical vibration. As such it represents the simplest possible type of test forthree-dimensional turbomachinery flow solvers. However, the rotor still presents a real challenge to3D viscous flow solvers because the shock wave-boundary layer interaction is strong and the effects ofviscosity are dominant in determining the flow deviation and hence the pressure ratio. Eleven ’blind’solutions were submitted and in addition a ’non-blind’ solution was used to prepare for the exercise-This paper reviews the fiow in the test case and the comparisons of the CFD solutions with the testdata. Lessons for both the Flow Physics in transonic has and for the application of CFD to suchmachines are pointed out.

Numerical Simulation on the Effect of Tip Clearance Size on Unsteadiness in Tip Clearance Flow

Unsteadiness of tip clearance flow with three different tip clearance sizes is numerically investigated in this paper. NASA Rotor 67 is chosen as the computational model. It is found that among all the simulated cases, the un- steadiness exists when the size of the tip clearance is equal to or larger than design tip clearance size. The relative total pressure coefficient contours indicate that region of influence by tip leakage flow augments with the increase of tip clearance size at a fixed mass flow rate. Root Mean Square contours of static pressure distribution in the rotor tip region are provided to illustrate that for design tip clearance （1.1% tip chord） the strongest fluctuating region is located on pressure side of blade near leading edge, while for the larger tip clearance （2.2% tip chord）, it is in the region of the interaction between the shock wave and the tip leakage flow.

Numerical investigation of the casing treatment mechanism with a single circumferential groove

The paper investigates the effect of a single circumferential groove casing treatment(CGCT) on a transonic compressor rotor numerically.In particular,the effect of the groove at different axial locations on the flow field is studied in detail and stall margin improvement is also discussed.The present results show that the groove close to the leading edge plays a crucial role in stabilizing the near stall flow structures and,hence,improves the stall margin.The groove at the mid-chord-section of the blade can help exchange and transfer momentums between different directions,and suppress the flow unsteadiness,leading to increased efficiency in rotor performance and extended operation range.The groove located near the blade trailing edge has limited effects on stall margin improvement and may cause additional penalty in efficiency.Through comparison with the recent work on CGCT,some common flow physics can be observed.