Experiments were conducted on a typical rotor-stator system where air entered through an annular slot at low radius and flowed out of the cavity axially through a rim seal between the rotor and the stator.For the seal...Experiments were conducted on a typical rotor-stator system where air entered through an annular slot at low radius and flowed out of the cavity axially through a rim seal between the rotor and the stator.For the seal in this rotor-stator system,the stationary shroud overlapped the rotating one.Pressure distributions at the stator surface and flow resistance coefficients of the rotor-stator cavity with a maximum gap of 67mm were measured under different dimensionless mass flow rates from 1.32×104 to 4.87×104 with a large range of rotational Reynolds numbers from 0.418×106 to 2.484×106.The results show that pressure on the stator surface decreases with the increase of rotational Reynolds number when the dimensionless mass flow rate is below 1.3×104;when the dimensionless mass flow rate is above 3.034×104,the trend reverses.This is the so-called"pressure inversion effect".However,dimensionless pressure does not show the same changes when rotational dynamic pressure is chosen as the denominator.The resistance coefficient of the rotor-stator cavity is determined by the dimensionless mass flow rate and rotational Reynolds number;for practical application,the resistance coefficient can also be estimated by the turbulent flow parameter in the range of turbulent parameter from 0.1to 1.6.展开更多
文摘Experiments were conducted on a typical rotor-stator system where air entered through an annular slot at low radius and flowed out of the cavity axially through a rim seal between the rotor and the stator.For the seal in this rotor-stator system,the stationary shroud overlapped the rotating one.Pressure distributions at the stator surface and flow resistance coefficients of the rotor-stator cavity with a maximum gap of 67mm were measured under different dimensionless mass flow rates from 1.32×104 to 4.87×104 with a large range of rotational Reynolds numbers from 0.418×106 to 2.484×106.The results show that pressure on the stator surface decreases with the increase of rotational Reynolds number when the dimensionless mass flow rate is below 1.3×104;when the dimensionless mass flow rate is above 3.034×104,the trend reverses.This is the so-called"pressure inversion effect".However,dimensionless pressure does not show the same changes when rotational dynamic pressure is chosen as the denominator.The resistance coefficient of the rotor-stator cavity is determined by the dimensionless mass flow rate and rotational Reynolds number;for practical application,the resistance coefficient can also be estimated by the turbulent flow parameter in the range of turbulent parameter from 0.1to 1.6.
