On the Use of Atmospheric Boundary Conditions for Axial-Flow Compressor Stall Simulations

Journal of Turbomachinery - Tập 127 Số 2 - Trang 349-351 - 2005
Mehdi Vahdati1, A. I. Sayma1, Christopher Freeman2, M. Imregun1
1Mechanical Engineering Department, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BX, UK
2Rolls-Royce plc, PO Box 31, Moor Lane, Derby DE24 8BJ, UK

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Abstract

This paper describes a novel way of prescribing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) boundary conditions for axial-flow compressors. The approach is based on extending the standard single passage computational domain by adding an intake upstream and a variable nozzle downstream. Such a route allows us to consider any point on a given speed characteristic by simply modifying the nozzle area, the actual boundary conditions being set to atmospheric ones in all cases. Using a fan blade, it is shown that the method not only allows going past the stall point but also captures the typical hysteresis loop behavior of compressors.

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