Unsteady Shock Waves Vortex Shedding Entanglement in a Transonic Turbine Cascade

Author(s):  
Guillermo Paniagua

Author(s):  
Lucheng Ji ◽  
Jia Yu ◽  
Weiwei Li ◽  
Weilin Yi

The shock waves are important phenomena in transonic turbines, which cause lots of negative effects on the aerodynamic performance. Much of attention had been paid on reducing the strength of the shock waves via modifying turbine cascade geometry, and it is highly preferred to build experiences on the relationship between the cascade aerodynamic performance and the geometric parameters. The paper presents a numerical study on the aerodynamic optimal transonic turbine cascade and its geometry characteristics. Three typical Russia transonic turbine cascades with different design conditions are selected and optimized using adjoint method at three different back pressures, respectively. Thus, the best geometry parameters for optimum aerodynamic performance can be found. Then the key geometry parameters of optimized cascades are extracted and compared with the original ones. Results show that even the best designs by hands could be less efficient than ones by computer-aided optimizations. Some experiences on how to set the key geometry parameters for a best performance are obtained. The reduced shock profiling is applied to the thermal turbomachinery and machine dynamics transonic turbine by using the adjoint method. The performance of the thermal turbomachinery and machine dynamics transonic turbine was increased significantly.



Author(s):  
Tom C. Currie ◽  
William E. Carscallen

Mid-span losses in the NRC transonic turbine cascade peak at an exit Mach number (M2) of ∼1.0 and then decrease by ∼40% as M2 is increased to the design value of 1.16. Since recent experimental results suggest that the decrease may be related to a reduction in the intensity of trailing edge vortex shedding, both steady and unsteady quasi-3D Navier-Stokes simulations have been performed with a highly refined (unstructured) grid to determine the role of shedding. Predicted shedding frequencies are in good agreement with experiment, indicating the blade boundary layers and trailing edge separated free shear layers have been modelled satisfactorily, but the agreement for base pressures is relatively poor, probably due largely to false entropy created downstream of the trailing edge by numerical dissipation. The results emphasize the importance of accounting for the effect of vortex shedding on base pressure and loss.



1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. C. Currie ◽  
W. E. Carscallen

Midspan losses in the NRC transonic turbine cascade peak at an exit Mach number (M2) of ~1.0 and then decrease by ~40 percent as M2 is increased to the design value of 1.16. Since recent experimental results suggest that the decrease may be related to a reduction in the intensity of trailing edge vortex shedding, both steady and unsteady quasi-three-dimensional Navier–Stokes simulations have been performed with a highly refined (unstructured) grid to determine the role of shedding. Predicted shedding frequencies are in good agreement with experiment, indicating the blade boundary layers and trailing edge separated free shear layers have been modeled satisfactorily, but the agreement for base pressures is relatively poor, probably due largely to false entropy created downstream of the trailing edge by numerical dissipation. The results nonetheless emphasize the importance of accounting for the effect of vortex shedding on base pressure and loss.



1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. W. Giel ◽  
J. R. Sirbaugh ◽  
I. Lopez ◽  
G. J. Van Fossen

Experimental measurements in the inlet of a transonic turbine blade cascade showed unacceptable pitchwise flow nonuniformity. A three-dimensional, Navier–Stokes computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of the imbedded bellmouth inlet in the facility was performed to identify and eliminate the source of the flow nonuniformity. The blockage and acceleration effects of the blades were accounted for by specifying a periodic static pressure exit condition interpolated from a separate three-dimensional Navier–Stokes CFD solution of flow around a single blade in an infinite cascade. Calculations of the original inlet geometry showed total pressure loss regions consistent in strength and location to experimental measurements. The results indicate that the distortions were caused by a pair of streamwise vortices that originated as a result of the interaction of the flow with the imbedded bellmouth. Computations were performed for an inlet geometry that eliminated the imbedded bellmouth by bridging the region between it and the upstream wall. This analysis indicated that eliminating the imbedded bellmouth nozzle also eliminates the pair of vortices, resulting in a flow with much greater pitchwise uniformity. Measurements taken with an installed redesigned inlet verify that the flow nonuniformity has indeed been eliminated.



1985 ◽  
Vol 51 (469) ◽  
pp. 2805-2812
Author(s):  
Masahiro INOUE ◽  
Hidechito HAYASHI ◽  
Takashi MURAISHI ◽  
Wenzhi SHEN


2019 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 258-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Gao ◽  
Ming Wei ◽  
Weiliang Fu ◽  
Qun Zheng ◽  
Guoqiang Yue


2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Gostelow ◽  
M. F. Platzer ◽  
W. E. Carscallen

This paper demonstrates similarities between the vortex shedding from blunt trailing-edge transonic turbine nozzle blades and from oscillating airfoils and bluff bodies. Under subsonic conditions the turbine nozzle cascade shed wake vortices in a conventional von Kármán vortex street. This was linked with a depressed base pressure and associated energy separation in the wake. Under transonic conditions a variety of different shedding configurations was observed with vortices shedding and pairing in several different ways. Similarities are addressed between the observed structures and those from vortex shedding in some other physical situations, such as the vortex wakes shed from cylinders and airfoils in sinusoidal heaving motion in low-speed flow. The established field of vortex-induced vibration has provided a developed classification scheme for the phenomena observed. The paper has brought together three previously independent fields of investigation and, by showing that the three are essentially related, has provided the basis for a new synthesis.



1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-148
Author(s):  
A. Szumowski ◽  
J. Amecke ◽  
J. Agocs


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