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Blade oscillation mechanism for aerodynamic damping measurements at high reduced frequencies
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Energy Technology, Heat and Power Technology. (Turbomachinery)
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Energy Technology, Heat and Power Technology. (Turbomachinery)
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Energy Technology, Heat and Power Technology. (Turbomachinery)
2022 (English)In: E3S Web Conf.Volume 345, 2022XXV Biennial Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery (MTT 2020), 2022, Vol. 345, article id 03002Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Accurate prediction of aerodynamic damping is essential for flutter and forced response analysis of turbomachinery components. Reaching a high level of confidence in numerical simulations requires that the models have been validated against the experiments. Even though a number of test cases have been established over the past decades, there is still a lack of suitable detailed test data that can be used for validation purposes in particular when it comes to aero damping at high reduced frequencies which is more relevant in the context of forced response analysis. A new transonic cascade test rig, currently undergoing commissioning at KTH, has been designed with the goal to provide detailed blade surface unsteady pressure data for compressor blades profiles oscillating at high reduced frequencies. The paper provides an overview of the blade actuation system employed in the test rig and presents the result of a series of bench tests characterizing the blade vibration amplitudes achieved with this actuation system.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. Vol. 345, article id 03002
Keywords [en]
blade vibration
National Category
Energy Engineering
Research subject
Energy Technology; Aerospace Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-313114DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202234503002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85146839595OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-313114DiVA, id: diva2:1662088
Conference
XXV Biennial Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery (MTT 2020)
Funder
EU, Horizon 2020, 769346
Note

QC 20220621

Available from: 2022-05-31 Created: 2022-05-31 Last updated: 2025-05-12Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Leading Edge Erosion Influence on the Aeroelastic Response in a Transonic Compressor Cascade: A Numerical and Experimental Approach
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Leading Edge Erosion Influence on the Aeroelastic Response in a Transonic Compressor Cascade: A Numerical and Experimental Approach
2025 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Current trends to enhance the aeroengines efficiency rely on more challenging working conditions with lighter, slender, and high-loaded blades. Thishigh power-to-weight ratio can make the blades from the front stages moreprone to face aeromechanic instabilities such as flutter. While key factorsthat affect flutter onset are well established in the literature, the effect ofleading edge erosion mechanisms is vastly sparse or not reported.An oscillating transonic linear cascade has been conceptualized and developed for validation at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In this testrig, an assessment of the effect of the leading edge erosion mechanism onthe aeroelastic response is performed. The analyzed operating points arerepresentative of a transonic axial compressor at part speed where a shockinduced separation mechanism is present. The aeroelastic measurementsare performed at the first natural bending mode. The presented thesis comprises three key aspects: the aeroelastic response of a smooth reference case,the identification of limitations in roughness wall modeling, and the aeroelastic response under leading edge erosion mechanisms. For the latter, theblades have been subjected to an increase in roughness at the leading edgefor the rough case, and the leading edge has been eroded and roughened forthe eroded case.The results indicate that for the smooth case, the numerical modelstend to overpredict the aeroelastic response downstream from the shockinduced separation compared to the experimental data. Surface roughnesswall modeling showed limitations when separated regions exist at fully roughwall regimes. When erosion mechanisms are introduced, the numerical results predict an opposite trend compared to the experimental observations.The experimental data from the eroded case showed a local increase in theunsteady pressure amplitude while the phase remained unchanged.

Abstract [sv]

Nuvarande trender för att förbättra effektivitet hos moderna flygmotorer bygger på alltmer utmanande driftförhållande med lättare, smalare och höglastade blad. Detta resulterar i ett högt effekt-till-vikt-förhållande som kan göra bladen i de främre stegen i en flygmotor mer benägna att drabbas av aeromekaniska instabiliteten, såsom fladder. Aven om nyckelfaktorer som påverkar fladderpåslag är ¨ väl etablerade i litteraturen, är effekterna av erosionsmekanismer som utvecklas på bladets framkant till följd av långvarig och ogynnsam drift mycket sparsamt studerade eller i vissa fall inte rapporterade alls.

En oscillerande transsonisk linjär kaskad har konceptualiserats och utvecklats vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) för studier av aeroelastisk gensvar hos kompressorblad. I denna testrigg genomförs en utvärdering av effekten av framakantserosion på det aeroelastiska gensvaret. Driftpunkter som analyseras är representativa för en transsonisk axiell kompressor vid dellast, där en stötvågsinducerad separationsmekanism uppstår. De aeroelastiska mätningarna utförs vid den första böjmoden.

Den här avhandlingen omfattar tre nyckelaspekter: det aeroelastiska gensvaret för ett referensfall med nominell bladgeometri, identifiering av begränsningar i modellering av bladens ytråhet, samt det aeroelastiska gensvaret för kompressorblad med eroderad framkant. För de senare fallen har kaskadskovlarna utsatts först för en ökad ytråhet i framkantsområdet (benämns som rough case i texten), och i nästa steg har även erosion av framkanten inducerats (benämns som eroded case vidare i texten).

Resultaten visar att i fallet med en ökad ytråhet tenderar de strömningsberäkningsmodeller som använts i studien att överskatta det aeroelastiska svaret nedströms från den stötvågsinducerade separationen, jämfört med de experimentella data. Modeller för simulering av ökad ytråhet visade sina begränsningar i fallet med separerad strömning och fullt utvecklade höga ytråhetsförhållanden. När erosionsmekanismer introduceras predikterar de numeriska simuleringar en motsatt trend jämfört med vad som har observerats i experiment. Mätdata från det eroderade fallet visar en lokal ökning av den instationära tryckamplituden medan fasförskjutningen förblir oförändrad jämfört med referensfallet.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2025. p. xxvi, 97
Series
TRITA-ITM-AVL ; 2025:17
Keywords
Leading edge erosion, Oscillating linear cascade, Surface roughness, Aeroelastic response, Aerodynamic damping, Experiments, CFD, PSP, Skovelerosion, Oscillerande linjär kaskad, Ytråhet, Aeroelastiskt gensvar, Aeroleastiskdämpning, Experiment, CFD, Tryckkänslig färg
National Category
Vehicle and Aerospace Engineering
Research subject
Energy Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-363298 (URN)978-91-8106-257-1 (ISBN)
Public defence
2025-06-05, Sal E3 / https://kth-se.zoom.us/s/68521587948, Osquars backe 18, stockholm, 10:00 (English)
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Available from: 2025-05-15 Created: 2025-05-12 Last updated: 2025-06-30Bibliographically approved

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