Influence of leading edge with real manufacturing error on aerodynamic performance of high subsonic compressor cascades

To investigate the influence of real leading-edge manufacturing error on aerodynamic performance of high subsonic compressor blades,a family of leading-edge manufacturing error data were obtained from measured compressor cascades.Considering the limited samples,the leadingedge angle and leading-edge radius distribution forms were evaluated by Shapiro-Wilk test and quantile–quantile plot.Their statistical characteristics provided can be introduced to later related researches.The parameterization design method B-spline and Bezier are adopted to create geometry models with manufacturing error based on leading-edge angle and leading-edge radius.The influence of real manufacturing error is quantified and analyzed by self-developed non-intrusive polynomial chaos and Sobol’indices.The mechanism of leading-edge manufacturing error on aerodynamic performance is discussed.The results show that the total pressure loss coefficient is sensitive to the leading-edge manufacturing error compared with the static pressure ratio,especially at high incidence.Specifically,manufacturing error of the leading edge will influence the local flow acceleration and subsequently cause fluctuation of the downstream flow.The aerodynamic performance is sensitive to the manufacturing error of leading-edge radius at the design and negative incidences,while it is sensitive to the manufacturing error of leading-edge angle under the operation conditions with high incidences.

A Robust Blade Design Method based on Non-Intrusive Polynomial Chaos Considering Profile Error

To weaken the influence of profile error on compressor aerodynamic performance, especially on pressure ratio and efficiency, a robust design method considering profile error is built to improve the robustness of aerodynamic performance of the blade. The characteristics of profile error are random and small-scaled, which means that to evaluate the influence of profile error on blade aerodynamic performance is a time-intensive and high-precision work. For this reason, non-intrusive polynomial chaos(NIPC) and Kriging surrogate model are introduced in this robust design method to improve the efficiency of uncertainty quantification(UQ) and ensure the evaluate accuracy. The profile error satisfies the Gaussian distribution, and NIPC is carried out to do uncertainty quantification since it has advantages in prediction accuracy and efficiency to get statistical behavior of random profile error. In the integrand points of NIPC, several surrogate models are established based on Latin hypercube sampling(LHS)+ Kriging, which further reduces the costs of optimization design by replacing calling computational fluid dynamic(CFD) repeatedly. The results show that this robust design method can significantly improve the performance robustness in shorter time(40 times faster) without losing accuracy, which is meaningful in engineering application to reduce manufacturing cost in the premise of ensuring the aerodynamic performance. Mechanism analysis of the robustness improvement samples carried out in current work can help find out the key parameter dominating the robustness under the disturbance of profile error, which is meaningful to further improvement of compressor robustness.

Experimental Investigation of a Linear Cascade with Large Solidity Using Pressure Sensitive Paint and Dual-Camera System

Pressure Sensitive Paint(PSP)technique has been increasingly applied to the experimental research of aerodynamics and thermodynamics due to its strengths of non-contact,high resolution results and large coverage area,etc.However,rarely has this technique been successfully used to the study of internal flow such as compressor cascade,since narrow flow passages would heavily restrict the acquisition of PSP images.In this paper,PSP technique was used to study the pressure distribution on a linear compressor cascade with large solidity of 2.3,where the view of recording camera can be heavily blocked due to adjacent blade surfaces.To help get integrated PSP images of the internal flow passage,dual camera system along with image processing tools like 3D reconstruction and image integration were adopted.The results showed that with the aid of such assistance,image results with good quality and readability could be obtained.Meanwhile,pressure data given by PSP were compared with data from traditional way of pressure taps and showed good consistency.Massive results of the entire cascade passage surface were given with different inlet Mach numbers and incidence angles.The results showed that PSP technique can integrally measure cascade tunnel of large solidity with the help of dual-camera system.

Dielectric barrier plasma dynamics for active aerodynamic flow control

The paper investigates the dynamics of a new multiple bipolar multiple Dielectric Barrier Discharges(DBD)actuator using in large-scale flow control.Particle image velocimetry experiments are performed to characteristic the effectiveness of the multiple bipolar DBD plasma actuator.The results show that the mutual interaction between the electrodes,one major disadvantage of traditional DBD characterized by reverse discharge can be entirely avoided,and a constantly accelerating electric wind velocity can be obtained by using the new multiple bipolar DBD plasma actuator.