Broadband noise prediction of fan outlet guide vane using a cascade response function

An analytical model of the broadband noise produced by both the interaction of ingested turbulence with a fan rotor blades and the rotor-wake impingement on downstream stator vanes is proposed and detailed. The noise prediction methodology is a strip-theory approach based on a previously published formulation of the three-dimensional unsteady blade loading for a rectilinear cascade. This three-dimensional cascade response applied in each strip combined with an acoustic analogy in an annular duct have been chosen to account for the main three-dimensional effects. To further improve some of the identified limitations of this approach, a correction is added to mitigate the effects of the non-coincidence of the cut-on frequencies of the annular duct modes and of the modes of the rectilinear cascade. A correction of the unsteady blade loading formulation, previously developed in a tonal configuration, is also introduced to account for the dispersion relation of annular duct modes in the rectilinear-cascade model. The model is compared with experimental results of the 22-in source diagnostic test (SDT) fan rig of the NASA Glenn Research Center. A numerical assessment of the simplifications proposed in the model and of the convergence of the truncated sums in spanwise wavenumbers and azimuthal orders of the incident perturbation is carried out. The subcritical gusts are shown to have a crucial effect at low frequencies, whereas they become negligible at higher frequencies. Furthermore, alternative high-frequency formulations lead to a satisfactory accuracy above a Helmholtz number based on the duct radius of 20. The strong reduction in computational time associated with these formulations could justify their use for parametric studies in industrial context. The effect of the turbulence model is also investigated showing the relevance of Liepmann's isotropic model in the SDT case, and a possible strong effect of anisotropy in static tests. Finally, the model is compared with NASA's experimental results for two outlet guide vanes at approach condition, showing a very good agreement upstream, whereas an underestimate of 3-5 dB is observed downstream in the middle frequency range.     

气冷涡轮级叶栅非定常流场数值模拟

采用具有三阶精度TVD性质的有限差分格式、自由型曲面网格技术、分区算法以及双时间步长的方法,对某型涡轮级叶栅流场进行了非定常NS方程数值求解,考察了在有、无冷气喷射条件下涡轮级气动性能的非定常变化。结果表明,上游静叶栅是否喷射冷气对下游动叶栅超音速区域的影响具有明显的区别,有冷气喷射时动叶栅前缘气动负荷降低,级效率下降约1%,但是不同动叶通道内气动性能随时间周期性变化的幅度明显减小了。     

弯掠动叶对跨声压气机非定常气动负荷的影响

对一单级跨声压气机设计工况采用弯掠动叶前、后的非定常流场进行了数值模拟,深入分析了动叶弯掠对压气机叶片非定常气动负荷的影响.结果表明t动叶弯掠后,动、静叶的气动力和气动力矩时均值由于叶片负荷大小及分布的不同变化而产生不同程度的改变;由于动叶对下游静叶的尾迹和二次流干扰远强于动叶所受到的下游静叶的势流干扰,静叶的气动负荷发生较大波动;弯掠动叶减轻了端壁损失并且减弱了顶部泄漏涡强度和根部角区分离,从而减弱了对下游静叶的非定常干扰,这使得静叶各气动参数的波动幅值显著降低.     

亚音速轴流风扇后掠叶片定子与湍流互作用宽频辐射噪声预报

针对亚音速轴流风扇后掠叶片定子的宽频辐射噪声问题,介绍并推导了叶栅宽频辐射声功率计算公式,通过该公式计算后掠叶片定子的宽频辐射声功率级,并从湍流入流和叶栅响应的角度揭示后掠角对定子辐射噪声的影响机理。在此基础上,考虑到实际风扇定子工作在转子尾流中的情况,采用Gauss尾流模型模拟转子尾流,建立转子尾流湍流波数谱模型,推导得到定子叶片与转子尾流互作用的宽频辐射声功率计算公式。通过与NASA风扇试验模型对比得到,考虑转子尾流的定子叶栅宽频辐射声功率计算公式能够较好的预报后掠定子宽频辐射声功率。最后,针对试验风扇模型,分析叶片安装角、叶片弦长对后掠叶片定子辐射噪声的影响。      

压气机悬臂静叶流场非定常数值模拟

以现代高压压气机一排悬臂静叶与一排转叶组成的典型级为研究对象,采用非定常数值模拟方法,分析了非定常与定常数值模拟计算得出的级特性线以及峰值效率点气动参数在展向分布的差异,并对悬臂静叶内部流场结构进行了详细分析,结果表明:当悬臂静叶的轮毂设计间隙为2.5%叶高时,非定常计算的综合喘振裕度比定常大5.85%;在峰值效率点工况下,悬臂静叶总压损失和转子效率的非定常影响范围在10%以内,转叶进口相对气流角沿展向分布的影响在0.5°以内。悬臂静叶根部10%叶高以下区域出现了明显的泄漏流动,3.4%叶高压力系数变化最大,轮毂泄漏流起始于20%弦长附近,发展到70%弦长位置时泄漏损失最大,随后逐渐减弱.     

从非定常效应看对旋风扇/压气机的工程实现

首先利用全隐格式的非稳态压力修正求解方法；计算对旋风扇级间流场非定常流动情况，并与实验结果进行了有益的对比；在动态实验研究中则通过单斜丝热线风速仪对对旋风扇级间速度场进行了详细分析，并揭示其级间非定常效应的独特规律：下游转子的非定常位势流作用在对旋级间流场的周期性非定常影响中占主导地位，级间径向速度的大小则主要与前级转子叶尖区和叶根区的二次流动旋涡强度有关．上述结果表明：对旋风扇／压气机的非定常效应对其性能有很大影响，如果很好地组织对旋叶轮的非定常流动气动布局，可进一步提高增压系统的压比、效率和稳定工作范围。     

风力机叶片气动噪声的影响参数*

随着风力机的大型化，风电机组对环境的影响不容忽视，必须对风力机气动噪声进行预测和控制。选取基于NACA、DU翼型的某风力机叶片作为研究基准，采用修正BPM半经验模型计算叶片的气动噪声特性，通过改变翼型族、弦长、机组运行状态、风切变指数、来流风向参数，研究叶片外形几何参数、机组运行工况对叶片气动噪声源的影响。计算结果从多个角度总结出水平轴风力机叶片气动噪声的变化规律，为开发高效低噪风电叶片提供参考。     

轮缘密封整周模型流动与封严特性数值研究

本文通过求解SST湍流模型以及三维Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes(URANS)方程,研究了单级轴流透平轮缘密封整周模型的流动与封严特性。分析了不同冷气流量下的封严效率与压力波动的变化,并通过与仅保留静叶和仅保留动叶的简化模型比较,分析了动静叶对主流与盘腔内压力波动的影响。结果表明:盘腔内部封严效率存在周向波动但无明显周期性规律,主流与盘腔内的压力周向波动受动静叶的影响,存在明显的周期性规律,静叶下游压力波动周期数等于静叶数,动叶上游与盘腔内部压力波动周期数等于动叶数。     

动静叶栅优化改型及其性能分析

本文对动静叶栅分别进行优化改型,并对改型前后叶栅的气动性能进行数值分析。动静叶栅的优化改型基于正反问题相结合的流函数方法,性能分析一方面基于单排叶栅定常粘性流动的数值计算,另一方面基于动静叶栅相互干扰非定常粘性流动的数值计算。算例结果表明,经过优化改型后的动静叶栅的气动性能,无论在定常流动条件下还是在非定常流动条件下,相比改型前均有较大幅度的改善。     

叶轮机械动静叶片排非定常气动干涉的数值模拟

本文采用一种分区算法求解二维Navier-Stokes方程,对叶轮机械多级叶片排内的非定常流场干涉进行数值模拟。在探讨分区计算对于复杂通道内流场和动静叶列非定常干涉作用数值计算的必要性和重要性之后,针对某蒸汽轮机跨音速叶片组进行了数值分析,得到了典型的动静叶间非定常干涉流动图谱、作用于叶片的非定常气动力及其频谱特征。计算结果表明。本文提出的计算方法是合理有效的,为今后进行大规模动静叶非定常气动计算和基于非定常数值模拟的工程设计提供了可靠的依据和有用的工具。     

High frequency formulation for the acoustic power spectrum due to cascade-turbulence interaction

This paper investigates the noise radiated by a cascade of flat-plate airfoils interacting with homogeneous, isotropic turbulence. An analytic formulation for the spectrum of acoustic power of a two-dimensional flat-plate is derived. The main finding of this paper is that the acoustic power spectrum from the cascade of flat airfoils may be split into two distinct frequency regions of low frequency and high frequency, separated by a critical frequency. Below this frequency, cascade effects due to the interaction between neighboring airfoils are shown to be important. At frequencies above the critical frequency, cascade effects are shown to be relatively weak. In this frequency range, acoustic power is shown to be approximately proportional to the number of blades. Based on this finding at high frequencies, an approximate expression is derived for the power spectrum that is valid above the critical frequency and which is in excellent agreement with the exact expression for the broadband power spectrum. The formulation is used to perform a parametric study on the effects on the power spectrum of the blade number, stagger angle, gap-chord ratio, and Mach number. The theory is also shown to provide a close fit to the measured spectrum of rotor-stator interaction.     

Fan interaction noise reduction using a wake generator: experiments and computational aeroacoustics

A control grid (wake generator) aimed at reducing rotor-stator interaction modes in fan engines when mounted upstream of the rotor has been studied here. This device complements other active noise control systems currently proposed. The compressor model of the instrumented ONERA CERF-rig is used to simulate suitable conditions. The design of the grid is drafted out using semi-empirical models for wake and potential flow, and experimentally achieved. Cylindrical rods are able to generate a spinning mode of the same order and similar level as the interaction mode. Mounting the rods on a rotating ring allows for adjusting the phase of the control mode so that an 8 dB sound pressure level (SPL) reduction at the blade passing frequency is achieved when the two modes are out of phase. Experimental results are assessed by a numerical approach using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). A Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes 2-D solver, developed at ONERA, is used to provide the unsteady force components on blades and vanes required for acoustics. The loading noise source term of the Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings equation is used to model the interaction noise between the sources, and an original coupling to a boundary element method (BEM) code is realized to take account of the inlet geometry effects on acoustic in-duct propagation. Calculations using the classical analytical the Green function of an infinite annular duct are also addressed. Simple formulations written in the frequency domain and expanded into modes are addressed and used to compute an in-duct interaction mode and to compare with the noise reduction obtained during the tests. A fairly good agreement between predicted and measured SPL is found when the inlet geometry effects are part of the solution (by coupling with the BEM). Furthermore, computed aerodynamic penalties due to the rods are found to be negligible. These results partly validate the computation chain and highlight the potential of the wake generator system proposed.     

Development and study of novel non-contact ultrasonic motor based on principle of structural asymmetry

The article presents novel design of non-contact rotary ultrasonic motor consisting of ring-shaped stator vibrating in in-plane flexural mode and rotor provided with blades. In contrast to other motors with similar design proposed motor relies on the use of standing ultrasonic waves. This simplifies design and electronic control of motor and becomes possible due to introduction of artificial asymmetry, for example by tilting one or several blades of the rotor relative to the surface normal. Operating principle of the proposed motor is based on acoustic radiation torque exerted on rotor by ultrasonic waves propagating in air or fluid gap between rotor and stator. This torque is calculated using finite element method by means of COMSOL Multiphysics software. Dynamics of rotor is studied using MathCad software and general theory of nonlinear conservative oscillators. Role of asymmetry is explained on the basis of comparative analysis of potential functions and phase trajectories for symmetric and asymmetric cases. It is shown that direction of rotation is determined by structural parameters of motor, particularly tilting direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise) of the blades. Conceptual design of motor with bidirectional rotation is described. Direction and velocity of rotation in the proposed conceptual design can be potentially controlled by changing excitation frequency of stator.     

弯曲动叶对跨音轴流压气机性能的影响

对具有弯曲动叶的跨音轴流压气机性能的数值研究表明,反弯曲动叶中通道激波沿径向倾斜角度最大,在顶部移向下游,在中部移向前缘,提高了失速裕度,但也增加了中部损失,反弯曲动叶级效率最低。正弯曲动叶中通道激波在顶部前移,失速裕度下降,通道激波近似为径向,负荷沿叶高分布均匀,气动效率最高。通道激波位置合理分布是弯曲动叶改型设计成功的关键。     

Cable connected active tuned mass dampers for control of in-plane vibrations of wind turbine blades

In-plane vibrations of wind turbine blades are of concern in modern multi-megawatt wind turbines. Today?s turbines with capacities of up to 7.5 MW have very large, flexible blades. As blades have grown longer the increasing flexibility has led to vibration problems. Vibration of blades can reduce the power produced by the turbine and decrease the fatigue life of the turbine. In this paper a new active control strategy is designed and implemented to control the in-plane vibration of large wind turbine blades which in general is not aerodynamically damped. A cable connected active tuned mass damper (CCATMD) system is proposed for the mitigation of in-plane blade vibration. An Euler–Lagrangian wind turbine model based on energy formulation has been developed for this purpose which considers the structural dynamics of the system and the interaction between in-plane and out-of-plane vibrations and also the interaction between the blades and the tower including the CCATMDs. The CCATMDs are located inside the blades and are controlled by an LQR controller. The turbine is subject to turbulent aerodynamic loading simulated using a modification to the classic Blade Element Momentum (BEM) theory with turbulence generated from rotationally sampled spectra. The turbine is also subject to gravity loading. The effect of centrifugal stiffening of the rotating blades has also been considered. Results show that the use of the proposed new active control scheme significantly reduces the in-plane vibration of large, flexible wind turbine blades.     

轴流压气机转子叶尖泄漏涡和尾迹在静子尖区的传播

用三维激光多普勒测速系统测量了轴流压气机设计状态转子叶尖泄漏涡和尾迹在静子尖区的传播过程。结果表明,转子叶尖泄漏涡和转子尾迹周期地扫过静子通道尖区,导致该区出现周期性的流动阻塞和脉动。转子尾迹在静子通道内追赶上从前一转子叶片通道内下来的叶尖泄漏涡,二者的相互作用和掺混导致静子尖区更为复杂的二次流动。同转子尾迹相比,转子叶尖泄漏涡对静子尖区的影响更为明显和深远。静叶尾部吸力面出现流动分离,分离流同低能物质之间发生相互作用和掺混。     

Aerodynamic analysis of a supersonic cascade vibrating in a complex mode

An analysis is presented which has been used to predict the unsteady aerodynamic behavior of a finite supersonic cascade of airfoils forced in harmonic oscillation with airfoil-to-airfoil variations in amplitude. Theoretical predictions are compared with some recent experimental results² at a reduced frequency representative of actual fan or compressor flutter cases. The similarity of the experimental situation in the finite cascade to the flutter of a severely mistuned rotor is noted.     

A computational study of the interaction noise from a small axial-flow fan

Small axial-flow fans used for computer cooling and many other appliances feature a rotor driven by a downstream motor held by several cylindrical struts. This study focuses on the aerodynamic mechanism of rotor-strut interaction for an isolated fan. The three-dimensional, unsteady flow field is calculated using FLUENT, and the sound radiation predicted by acoustic analogy is compared with measurement data. Striking differences are found between the pressure oscillations in various parts of the structural surfaces during an interaction event. The suction surface of the blade experiences a sudden increase in pressure when the blade trailing edge sweeps past a strut, while the process of pressure decrease on the pressure side of the blade is rather gradual during the interaction. The contribution of the latter towards the total thrust force on the structure is cancelled out significantly by that on the strut. In terms of the acoustic contributions from the rotor and strut, the upstream rotor dominates and this feature differs from the usual rotor-stator interaction acoustics in which the downstream part is responsible for most of the noise. It is therefore argued that the dominant interaction mechanism is potential flow in nature.     

Noise simulation of aircraft engine fans by the boundary element method

Numerical simulation results of the civil aircraft engine fan stage noise in the far field are presented. Non-steady-state rotor–stator interaction is calculated the commercial software that solves the Navier–Stokes equations using differentturbulence models. Noise propagation to the far acoustic field is calculated by the boundary element method using acoustic Lighthill analogies without taking into account the mean current in the air inlet duct. The calculated sound pressure levels at points 50 m from the engine are presented, and the directional patterns of the acoustic radiation are shown. The use of the eddy resolving turbulence model to calculate rotor–stator interaction increases the accuracy in predicting fan stage noise.