Numerical Investigation of the Unsteady Transonic 3D-Flow in Stator and Rotor Cascades With Oscillating Blades

Autor: Stefan F. Weber, Dieter Peitsch, H. E. Gallus
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Volume 5: Manufacturing Materials and Metallurgy; Ceramics; Structures and Dynamics; Controls, Diagnostics and Instrumentation; Education; General.
DOI: 10.1115/96-gt-307
Popis: Subject of this paper is a numerical method for the simulation of flutter in three dimensional oscillating cascades. Unsteadiness can be caused by bending and torsional oscillation modes simultaneously. The goal of the investigation is the evaluation of the resulting blade forces and moments. The flow is assumed to be time-dependent and inviscid. By solving the Euler equations in a nonlinear way, large oscillations as well of the airfoil as of existing shocks can be treated. The numerical solution follows a Godunov-type upwind scheme, formulated in node centered finite volume technique. An approximative Riemann solver proposed by Roe is used to determine the fluxes over the surfaces of the control volume. Since unphysical expansion shocks have to be suppressed, a modification of the transonic characteristic speeds is included. The extrapolation of the flow values onto the control volumes’ surfaces is done by means of the MUSCL technique, embedded in a TVD-scheme with the flux limiter by van Albada. The computational domain is restricted to only one channel and the periodic values are stored over one period of oscillation. A special technique is introduced, which reduces both the effort in CPU-time and in computer memory. Results are included for compressor and turbine geometries in sub- and transonic flow.
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