Geometry-Load Based Hybrid Correction Method for the Pre-Deformation Design of a Steam Turbine Blade

Abstract

To solve the problem of the slow convergence of the geometry-based correction (GC) method in the design of a steam turbine blade, this paper proposes a geometry-load-based hybrid correction (GLHC) method. In this method, the deformation of the blade caused by the centrifugal load is still corrected by the GC method, while the deformation caused by the aerodynamic load is corrected by the load-based correction (LC) method instead of the GC method. The LC method updates the cold shape of the blade by reversely applying the aerodynamic load to the ideal shape according to the balance between the internal force generated by the deformation of the blade and the aerodynamic load acting on surface of the hot blade shape, thereby reducing the number of iterations by reducing the shape deviation in each step of the iteration. The GLHC method, which combines the GC and LC methods, is used to improve the design process. The efficiency of the GLHC and GC methods are compared with the maximum number of position deviations of the corresponding mesh nodes between the hot blade and ideal blade shapes, which acts as the criterion. The results show that the GLHC method reduces the number of iterations.

Mechanical response analysis of the wide-chord hollow fan blade considering the fluid–structure interaction

“…They found that the stress on the surface of the blade after considering the effect of the fluid-structure coupling has a significant difference compared with only centrifugal force considered. Yi et al (2020) calculated the deformation of a fan blade under aerodynamic force based on a fluid-structure coupling algorithm and applied the results to predeformation design of the blade. Vinha et al (2020) constructed the governing equations of solid interaction through the strongcoupling and the weak-coupling methods and analyzed the stress and deformation of a certain aero-engine fan blade.…”