Analytical and Experimental Determination of Tip Clearance Effects in a High Work Turbine Rotor

Liu, Jong-Shang; Minkkinen, George; Bozzola, R.

doi:10.1115/91-gt-197

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“…Watanbe et al (1991) recently implemented an overlapping C-H topology with stacked H-grids in the tip region. An "embedded" H-grid topology has found recent popularity in gas turbine applications with tip clearance [Moore and Moore (1989), Cleak and Gregory-Smith (1991), Liu et al (1991), Briley et al (1991), Basson et al (1991)]. All of the mentioned approaches have in common that they provide significantly smoother meshes, more precise geometrical representation and improved flow field resolution in the tip clearance region.…”

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Investigation of Tip Clearance Phenomena in an Axial Compressor Cascade Using Euler and Navier-Stokes Procedures

Kunz

Lakshminarayana

Basson

1992

Volume 1: Turbomachinery

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Three-dimensional Euler and Full Navier-Stokes computational procedures have been utilized to simulate the flow field in an axial compressor cascade with tip clearance. An embedded H-grid topology was utilized to resolve the flow physics in the tip gap region. The numerical procedure employed is a finite difference Runge-Kutta scheme. Available measurements of blade static pressure distributions along the blade span, dynamic pressure and flow angle in the cascade outlet region, and spanwise distributions of blade normal force coefficient and circumferentially averaged flow angle are used for comparison. Several parameters which were varied in the experimental investigations were also varied in the computational studies. Specifically, measurements were taken and computations were performed on the configuration with and without: tip clearance, the presence of an endwall, inlet endwall total pressure profiles and simulated relative casing rotation. Additionally, both Euler and Navier-Stokes computations were performed to investigate the relative performance of these approaches in reconciling the physical phenomena considered. Results indicate that the Navier-Stokes procedure, which utilizes a low Reynolds number k-ε model, captures a variety of important physical phenomena associated with tip clearance flows with good accuracy. These include tip vortex strength and trajectory, blade loading near the tip, the interaction of the tip clearance flow with passage secondary flow and the effects of relative endwall motion. The Euler computation provides good but somewhat diminished accuracy in resolution of some of these clearance phenomena. It is concluded that the level of modelling embodied in the present approach is sufficient to extract much of the tip region flow field information useful to designers of turbomachinery.

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