A Computational Method for Flow Separation Detection and Control for Axial Compressor Airfoils

<p>Conducting full annulus experiments on multistage compressors is costly and time consuming due to the complexity of the experimental processes. To reduce complexity, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods are applied to turbomachinery and other applications in recent analysis of such cases. CFD methods are widely used within the aerospace industry and are increasingly demonstrating their reliability. For axial compressors, it is known that highly staggered compressor stators will increase the aerodynamic loading on the stator, which directly relates to the compressor stall and efficiency. In this work, compressor stators stagger angle is increased 4 ° to induce separation on the modified GE stator type B and mass flow is injected to eliminate this separation on the suction surface of the airfoil. Using airfoil geometry obtained from NASA, 2 different CFD codes; NASA's SWIFT and Gambit-FLUENT are employed to perform the analysis on the airfoil and to show the effectiveness of CFD. NASA's Codes, GRAPE and TCGRID are used to generate 2D and 3D mesh around the airfoil, and, to analyze the flow, RVCQ3d and SWIFT are employed for 2D and 3D cases, respectively, to detect separation on the Suction Surface of the stator. The commercial CFD code Gambit is used to generate mesh around a 3D airfoil and FLUENT is used to investigate the effectiveness of the flow control mechanism over the stator. Separation was successfully induced by restaggering the stators. Furthermore, it was successfully eliminated by injecting mass flow via slits on the suction surface.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - Open Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Aerospace Engineering

Year

2007

Author dc:creator

• Meang, Chang Jun

Contributors dc:contributor

• Magdy Attia
• Eric Perrell
• Vladimir V. Golubev

• flow separation
• computational fluid dynamics
• axial compressor
• airfoils
• Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics
• Aerospace Engineering
• Computational Engineering

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.erau.edu/db-theses/141

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.erau.edu:db-theses-1194