This paper describes the formulation and application of an advanced numerical model for the simulation of blade-passing and low-engine order forced response in turbomachinery core compressors. The Reynolds averaged Navier–Stokes equations are used to represent the flow in a nonlinear time-accurate fashion on unstructured meshes of mixed elements. The structural model is based on a standard finite-element representation. The fluid mesh is moved at each time step according to the structural motion so that changes in blade aerodynamic damping and flow unsteadiness can be accommodated automatically. A whole-annulus 5-bladerow forced response calculation, where three upstream and one downstream bladerows were considered in addition to the rotor bladerow of interest, was undertaken using over 20 million grid points. The results showed not only some potential shortcomings of equivalent 2-bladerow computations for the determination of the main blade-passing forced response, but also revealed the potential importance of low engine-order harmonics. Such harmonics, due to stator blade number differences, or arising from common symmetric sectors, can only be taken into account by including all stator bladerows of interest. The low engine-order excitation that could arise from a blocked passage was investigated next. It was shown that high vibration response could arise in such cases.
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Multibladerow Forced Response Modeling in Axial-Flow Core Compressors
M. Vahdati,
M. Vahdati
Imperial College
, MED, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BX, UK
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A. I. Sayma,
A. I. Sayma
Imperial College
, MED, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BX, UK
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G. Simpson
G. Simpson
Rolls-Royce plc
, P.O. Box 31, DE24 8BJ, UK
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M. Vahdati
Imperial College
, MED, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BX, UK
A. I. Sayma
Imperial College
, MED, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BX, UK
M. Imregun
G. Simpson
Rolls-Royce plc
, P.O. Box 31, DE24 8BJ, UKJ. Turbomach. Apr 2007, 129(2): 412-420 (9 pages)
Published Online: June 3, 2005
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Received:
February 11, 2004
Revised:
June 3, 2005
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Vahdati, M., Sayma, A. I., Imregun, M., and Simpson, G. (June 3, 2005). "Multibladerow Forced Response Modeling in Axial-Flow Core Compressors." ASME. J. Turbomach. April 2007; 129(2): 412–420. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2436892
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