Unsteady Tip Leakage, Bow Shock, IGV Wake Interaction in a Compressor

Effects of Different Turbulence Models in Simulation of Unsteady Tip Leakage Flow in Axial Compressor Rotor Blades Row

Characteristics of rotor blade tip clearance flow in axial compressors can significantly affect their performance and stable operation. It may also increase blade vibrations and cause detrimental noises. Therefore, this paper is contributed to investigate tip leakage flow in a low speed isolated axial compressor rotor blades row. Simulations are carried out on near-stall condition, which is val...

DNS of unsteady shock boundary layer interaction

A novel numerical scheme has been developed to simulate high speed viscous flows in complex geometries using unstructured grids. A characteristic–filter based shock capturing scheme is applied as a corrector step to a non–dissipative predictor scheme. This algorithm is being used to study shock turbulent boundary layer interactions and this paper presents the results of a turbulent flow at Mach...

Tip Leakage Flow Downstream of a Compressor Cascade with Moving End Wall

Aspects of Two-Phase Flow Screw Compressor Modelling Part I: Leakage Flow and Rotor Tip Friction

A one-dimensional leakage flow model for two-phase ammonia-water twin screw compressors is presented. The model takes into account viscous and acceleration forces and is based on three conservation equations and on the equation of state for homogenous NHiH20 mixture. The governing equations are solved with a finite difference method. Numerical shooting is used to find such inlet flow velocity a...

Effect of the Axial Spacing between Rotor and Stator with Regard to the Indexing in an Axial Compressor

An experimental investigation was carried out to examine the influence of the axial spacing between rotor and stator. The test facility of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is made up of an inlet guide vane (IGV), a rotor and a stator. Temperature and aerodynamic measurements determined the characteristics of the compressor stage. Data were acquired over a range of flow coefficients for...