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.

Effect of blade sweep on inlet flow in axial compressor cascades

This paper presents comparative numerical studies to investigate the effects of blade sweep on inlet flow in axial compressor cascades. A series of swept and straight cascades was modeled in order to obtain a general understanding of the inlet flow field that is induced by sweep.A computational fluid dynamics（CFD） package was used to simulate the cascades and obtain the required three-dimensional（3D） flow parameters. A circumferentially averaged method was introduced which provided the circumferential fluctuation（CF） terms in the momentum equation.A program for data reduction was conducted to obtain a circumferentially averaged flow field.The influences of the inlet flow fields of the cascades were studied and spanwise distributions of each term in the momentum equation were analyzed. The results indicate that blade sweep does affect inlet radial equilibrium. The characteristic of radial fluid transfer is changed and thus influencing the axial velocity distributions. The inlet flow field varies mainly due to the combined effect of the radial pressure gradient and the CF component. The axial velocity varies consistently with the incidence variation induced by the sweep, as observed in the previous literature. In addition, factors that might influence the radial equilibrium such as blade camber angles, solidity and the effect of the distance from the leading edge are also taken into consideration and comparatively analyzed.

Investigating the effect of blade sweep and lean in one stage of an industrial gas turbine's transonic compressor

In this paper,the simultaneous effects of the sweep and lean of the blades in one stage of a transonic compressor on its performance have been investigated.Then,with the help of numerical solution,fluid flows over these two modified geometries generated from the original sample were analyzed.Considering the applied constraints,the two generated rotor geometries have different geometrical characteristics;so that in rotor No.1,the blade has a backward sweep and it is less affected by lean,while in the modified rotor No.2,the blade has a forward sweep and it is more affected by lean.In the first sample,it is observed that the stage efficiency increases by 0.5%for operating design,while the stall margin reduces,and the chocking mass flow rate diminishes by 1.5%.Also regarding the second modified blade,the results indicate that the stall margin increases,the choking flow rate at the nominal rotational speed of the stage increases by 0.18%and the stage efficiency increases by 1%.The comparison of numerical results also shows that,in the first modified rotor,the pressure ratio of the stage diminishes by 0.01%;while in the second sample,the pressure ratio of the stage increases by the same amount.These results were then compared with the experimental results,showing a good agreement.