A Loosely Coupled Unsteady Flow Simulation of a Single Stage Compressor

Autor: B. Lakshminarayana, Y.-H. Ho
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics. 10:73-89
ISSN: 1029-0257
1061-8562
Popis: A steady/unsteady, three-dimensional Navier- Stokes solver that utilizes a semi-implicit, pressure-based solution procedure is developed to simulate the three-dimensional, incompressible flow through a single stage compressor. The present numerical scheme features the implementation of a second-order plus fourth-order artificial dissipation formulation to prevent the numerical oscillation due to central differencing schemes. A low-Reynolds-number form of the two-equation turbulence model is used to account for the turbulence effects. For unsteady flow computations, the coupling between the mean flow properties and the turbulence is enhanced by an inner-iteration procedure during each time step. The steady flow field in the rotor passage is computed first. This is used as input for the computation of the unsteady flow in the subsequent stator. The predicted unsteady pressure on the stator blades and unsteady velocities at several locations inside the passage are compared with the experimental data. The uns...
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