Effect of Boundary Layer Suction on the Corner Separation in a Highly Loaded Axial Compressor Cascade

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIAN LIANG ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Stephen Spence
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Axial Compressor ◽  
Compressor Cascade ◽  
Corner Separation ◽  
Boundary Layer Suction ◽  
Highly Loaded

Effect of Boundary Layer Suction on the Corner Separation in a Highly Loaded Axial Compressor Cascade

2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian Liang ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Stephen Spence
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Flow Field ◽  
Axial Compressor ◽  
Compressor Cascade ◽  
Flow Uniformity ◽  
Suction Surface ◽  
Corner Separation ◽  
Boundary Layer Suction ◽  
End Wall ◽  
Highly Loaded

Abstract Control of corner separation in axial compressor blade rows has attracted much interest due to its potential to improve compressor efficiency and the energy utilization in turbomachinery. This paper investigates the effectiveness and mechanisms of boundary layer suction in controlling the corner separation of a highly loaded axial compressor cascade. Numerical simulations have been carried out to investigate the effect of different suction schemes on the loss downstream of the cascade and the change in incidence characteristics with the variation of the suction flowrate. The results show that the effectiveness of flow suction in controlling the flow separation depends heavily on the proportion of the blade for which it is applied. It was found that suction along part of the blade span on the suction surface could effectively remove the separation at the region of the span influenced by the suction slot. However, this resulted in a deterioration of the flow field at other parts of the span. The full-span suction scheme on the suction surface not only eliminated the separation of the boundary layer in the middle of the blade but also significantly improved the flow uniformity near the end-wall. Despite the improvement in flow uniformity using the full-span suction scheme, a three-dimensional (3D) corner separation still existed due to the strong cross-passage pressure gradient. To improve the flow field uniformity further, two combined suction schemes with one spanwise slot on the suction surface and another slot on the end-wall were designed in order to fully remove both the separated flow on the blade suction surface and the 3D corner separation. It was found that the total pressure loss coefficient was reduced significantly by 63.8% with suction flowrates of 1.88% and 0.82% for the slots on the suction surface and the end-wall, respectively. Further work showed that the behavior of the loss coefficient is different as the combination of suction flowrates is changed for different incidence. The cascade loss at high incidence operation can be more effectively reduced with suction control on the end-wall. When implementing combined suction, it is necessary to determine the best combination of suction flowrate according to the incidence level.

Effect of Boundary Layer Suction on the Corner Separation in a Highly Loaded Axial Compressor Cascade

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian Liang ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Stephen Spence
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Axial Compressor ◽  
Compressor Cascade ◽  
Flow Uniformity ◽  
Suction Surface ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Corner Separation ◽  
Boundary Layer Suction ◽  
End Wall ◽  
Suction Flow

Abstract Control of corner separation in axial compressor blade rows has attracted much interest due to its potential to improve compressor efficiency and the energy utilization in turbomachinery. This paper investigates the effectiveness and mechanisms of boundary layer suction in controlling the corner separation of a highly loaded axial compressor cascade. Numerical simulations have been carried out to investigate the effect of different suction schemes on the loss downstream of the cascade and the change in incidence characteristics with the variation of the suction flow rate. The results show that the effectiveness of flow suction in controlling the flow separation depends heavily on the proportion of the blade for which it is applied. It was found that suction along part of the blade span on the suction surface could effectively remove the separation at the region of the span influenced by the suction slot. However, this resulted in a deterioration of the flow field at other parts of the span. The full span suction scheme on the suction surface not only eliminated the separation of the boundary layer in the middle of the blade, but also significantly improved the flow uniformity near the end-wall. Despite the improvement in flow uniformity using the full-span suction scheme, a three-dimensional (3D) corner separation still existed due to the strong cross-passage pressure gradient. To improve the flow field uniformity further, two combined suction schemes with one spanwise slot on the suction surface and another slot on the end-wall were designed in order to fully remove both the separated flow on the blade suction surface and the 3D corner separation. It was found that the total pressure loss coefficient was reduced significantly by 63.8% with suction flow rates of 1.88% and 0.82% for the slots on the suction surface and the end-wall respectively. Further work showed that the behavior of the loss coefficient is different as the combination of suction flow rates is changed for different incidence. The cascade loss at high incidence operation can be more effectively reduced with suction control on the end-wall. When implementing combined suction, it is necessary to determine the best combination of suction flow rate according to the incidence level.

Location Effect of Boundary Layer Suction on Compressor Hub-Corner Separation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping-Ping Chen ◽  
Wei-Yang Qiao ◽  
Karsten Liesner ◽  
Robert Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Pressure Loss ◽  
Total Pressure ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Base Flow ◽  
Total Pressure Loss ◽  
Compressor Cascade ◽  
Suction Surface ◽  
Corner Separation ◽  
Boundary Layer Suction

The large secondary flow area in the compressor hub-corner region usually leads to three-dimensional separation in the passage with large amounts of total pressure loss. In this paper numerical simulations of a linear high-speed compressor cascade, consisting of five NACA 65-K48 stator profiles, were performed to analyze the flow mechanism of hub-corner separation for the base flow. Experimental validation is used to verify the numerical results. Active control of the hub-corner separation was investigated by using boundary layer suction. The influence of the selected locations of the endwall suction slot was investigated in an effort to quantify the gains of the compressor cascade performance. The results show that the optimal chordwise location should contain the development section of the three-dimensional corner separation downstream of the 3D corner separation onset. The best pitchwise location should be close enough to the vanes’ suction surface. Therefore the optimal endwall suction location is the MTE slot, the one from 50% to 75% chord at the hub, close to the blade suction surface. By use of the MTE slot with 1% suction flow ratio, the total-pressure loss is substantially decreased by about 15.2% in the CFD calculations and 9.7% in the measurement at the design operating condition.

Effects of Boundary Layer Suction on the Performance of Compressor Cascades

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu Chen ◽  
Yanping Song ◽  
Huanlong Chen ◽  
Zhongqi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Aerodynamic Performance ◽  
Compressor Cascade ◽  
Suction Surface ◽  
Boundary Layer Suction ◽  
Suction Flow ◽  
Suction Slot ◽  
Highly Loaded

The effects of boundary layer suction on the aerodynamic performance of compressor cascade are mainly determined by: (1) the location of the suction slot; (2) the suction flow rate; (3) the suction slot geometry; and (4) the aerodynamic parameters of the cascade (e.g. solidity and incidence). In this paper, an extensive numerical study has been carried out to investigate the effects of these influencing factors in a highly-loaded compressor cascade by comparing the aerodynamic performance of the cascade in order to give guidance for the application of boundary layer suction to improve the performance of modern highly-loaded compressors. The results show that boundary layer suction alleviates the accumulation of low-energy fluid at suction surface corners and enhances the ability of flow turning, and this improvement in flow behavior depends on the location of the suction slot and the suction flow rate. When the location of the suction slot and the suction flow rate are fixed, as the cascade solidity decreases from 1.819 to 1.364 and 1.091, the cascade total pressure loss is reduced at most by 25.1%, 27.7% and 32.9% respectively, and the cascade exit flow deviation is decreased by 3.1°, 4.2° and 5.0° accordingly. Moreover, boundary layer suction also has the largest effect in the cascade with smaller solidity at large positive incidences, which means that boundary layer suction is an effective way to widen the stable operating range of the highly-loaded compressor cascade. The suction slot geometry is described by the suction slot width and the suction slot angle with respect to the direction normal to the blade suction surface. The results show that the flow behavior is improved and the endwall loss is reduced further as the increase of the suction slot width. The suction slot angle has an obvious influence on the pressure inside the slot, therefore, should be considered in the design of the suction slot since the maximum pressure inside the slot is usually required.

Effect of Segment Endwall Boundary Layer Suction on Compressor 3D Corner Separation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping-Ping Chen ◽  
Wei-Yang Qiao ◽  
Karsten Liesner ◽  
Robert Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Pressure Ratio ◽  
Base Flow ◽  
Flow Ratio ◽  
Compressor Cascade ◽  
Corner Separation ◽  
Boundary Layer Suction ◽  
Suction Flow

Due to the strong secondary flow behavior in the compressor endwall/blade suction-side corner region, a large three-dimensional corner separation will usually be formed with large amounts of compressor aerodynamic loss. In this paper, a linear high-speed compressor cascade, with five NACA 65-K48 stator profiles, is numerically simulated to understand the state of this phenomenon. Based on the experiment, the base flow is validated for the numerical result. Active control of 3D corner separation was investigated by using segment endwall boundary layer suction, which is located along the pressure-side leg of leading-edge horse-shoe vortex during its development in the frontal part of the blade passage. The influence of suction flow ratio was investigated in an effort to quantify the improvements of compressor cascade performance. The results show the optimal suction flow ratio is not the largest, but a critical value, which is 0.83% of inflow mass flow rate. Taking all performance parameters’ changes into consideration, the best is with 1% suction flow ratio. The total-pressure loss is eventually reduced by 11.2% with the optimal suction flow ratio compared to the design condition, and an increase of 9.84% is obtained for the static-pressure ratio.

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