Influence of Secondary Sealing Flow on Performance of Turbine Axial Rim Seals

Purge flow is of great importance in cooling turbine disks and sealing rotor-stator disc cavity to reduce hot gas ingestion in gas turbines.The amount of cooling air extracted from the compressor is crucial to engine efficiency.Excessive sealing air will cause not only a reduction in work transfer but also an increase in aerodynamic losses caused by the mixing of main and sealing flow.In order to simplify rim seal structure while ensuring high sealing efficiency,the current paper optimizes the flow path of the secondary air system and presents a new rim seal structure with auxiliary sealing holes transporting a certain amount of secondary sealing flow.The new structure was compared with the conventional counterpart using validated CFD methods,showing that the additional secondary sealing flow is possible to improve sealing efficiency in disk cavity.The current paper investigates the secondary sealing flow with and without swirl(the angle of auxiliary sealing hole inclination is 0°and 45°respectively),while maintaining the total amount of the sealing flow,flowrate ratio of sealing air(main sealing flow rate versus secondary sealing flow rate=1:1,2:1,3:1,4:1),found that both two parameters have essential impacts on sealing efficiency.The relationship between these two parameters and sealing efficiency was obtained,and it provides a new philosophy for the design of rim seal in gas turbines.

Effect of Fluid-Structure Interaction on Sealed Flow Field and Leakage Rate Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics

This paper addresses the issue of reciprocating compressors staggered labyrinth seal structure. The internal flow field of sealed structure, the displacement of cylinder and piston for different tooth profile angles are analyzed synchronously using FLUENT software, and the effects of fluid-structure interaction on the performance of the labyrinth seal are revealed. The results indicate that with the growth of tooth profile angle, the leakage rate of labyrinth seal tends to decrease first, and then increase. The results of fluid-structure interaction analysis are close to those of actual engineering. The effect of fluid-structure interaction makes tiny deformation in calculation mesh of piston and cylinder structure, and the coupling interaction affects the performance of the labyrinth seal.

On The Analysis of Labyrinth Seal Flow Induced Vibration by Oscillating Fluid Mechanics Method

A numerical model and a solution method to analyze the labyrinth seal now induced vibration by Oscillating Fluid Mechanics Method (OFMM) are presented in this paper, including the basic equations and solution procedure to determine the oscillating velocity, pressure and the dynamic characteristic coefficients of Labyrinth seal such as the stiffness coefficients and damping coefficients. The results show that this method has the advantages of both less time cousuming and high accuracy. In addition,it can be applied to the field diagnosis of the vibration of the axis of turbomachinery system.