Publication Date:
2019-06-28
Description:
A three-dimensional code for rotating blade-row flow analysis was developed. The space discretization uses a cell-centered scheme with eigenvalues scaling for the artificial dissipation. The computational efficiency of a four-stage Runge-Kutta scheme is enhanced by using variable coefficients, implicit residual smoothing, and a full-multigrid method. An application is presented for the NASA rotor 67 transonic fan. Due to the blade stagger and twist, a zonal, non-periodic H-type grid is used to minimize the mesh skewness. The calculation is validated by comparing it with experiments in the range from the maximum flow rate to a near-stall condition. A detailed study of the flow structure near peak efficiency and near stall is presented by means of pressure distribution and particle traces inside boundary layers.
Keywords:
FLUID MECHANICS AND HEAT TRANSFER
Type:
NASA-TM-106266
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ICOMP-93-25
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E-7993
,
NAS 1.15:106266
Format:
application/pdf
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