使用多孔蜗舌的贯流风机

将贯流风机的蜗舌替代为多孔板与容腔组合的结构,定性地研究其控制气动噪声的可行性。通过对气动特性和辐射声信号的实验测量,结合内部流场的非稳态雷诺平均数值模拟,分析了这种蜗舌改造对贯流风机的整体特性和内部流动特征的影响,结果表明多孔蜗舌对贯流风机的压力-流量曲线作用并不明显,但对风机的噪声有着重要的影响,改变蜗舌迎风面的穿孔率可以有效地控制贯流风机的噪声。     

转速对弯掠轴流风机气动噪声的影响分析

针对弯掠轴流风机气动噪声问题,采用大涡模拟(LES)和基于Lighthill声类比的FW-H模型相结合的方法进行非定常计算,通过快速Fourier转换(FFT),得到风机远场气动噪声声压级分布。对比研究了三种转速下旋转区内声压级分布规律、时域及频域特性,结果表明:旋转区域内声压级随转速增加而增大,前缘分离涡在某一转速时影响区域和强度最大;在一个旋转周期内,声压脉动呈现出6个波峰与波谷,验证了叶片转动频率是风机内部气动噪声的主要激励频率.     

脉动冷却流对冷却孔出口附近流动结构的影响

为了探索新型高效能的气膜冷却技术,本文提出了一种脉冲射流冷却方法,并以平板上垂直方形冷却孔为几何模型,以正弦曲线分布的射流速度为冷却气流模型,采用非定常CFD数值模拟技术,在给定横向流速和非定常射流速度的条件下,对孔附近局部三维流场的非定常特性和流场结构进行了数值模拟研究.     

变工况下前弯离心风机宽带噪声的数值模拟及分析

为了解前弯离心风机不同工况下宽带噪声的变化规律及特性,本文以一款前弯高压离心风机为研究对象,针对带宽频特征的涡流噪声,运用基于Lighthill理论的FW-H方程和Proudman方程对前弯离心风机近场、远场噪声进行积分计算,通过三维非定常与定常数值模拟研究了其在设计流量,大流量与小流量三个运行工况下的噪声频谱特性,以及风机叶轮、蜗壳的宽带噪声分布特性,并将模拟结果与试验进行了对比验证。结果表明,该风机噪声宽频特性随流量增大变得明显。叶轮处宽带噪声声功率最高出现在离蜗舌最近的两个叶片上,蜗壳处宽带噪声最大声功率级主要出现在蜗舌处。     

前置导叶对横流风机性能及气动噪声的影响

在横流风机叶轮前加前置导叶(IGV)可以改善横流风机的进口流场,减少叶片上的流动分离,进而降低横流风机的功率。采用非结构化网格RNGκ-ε两方程模型,分别对不加IGV、加IGV1,以及IGV2的横流风机内部流场进行数值模拟,并对三种情况进行气动性能及噪声试验。数值模拟和试验结果表明在加不同IGV以后,横流风机的噪声增大,但是功率在加IGV2后出现了一定的降低。     

离心泵启动过程内部瞬态流动的二维数值模拟

为分析离心泵启动过程外部瞬态特性的内流机理,建立求解叶轮启动和加速过程泵内部非定常流动的数值模拟方法,以二维离心泵为模型进行启动过程内部流动的数值模拟研究.以绝对坐标系描述伞场流动,采用动网格方法实现离心泵启动过程中叶轮加速旋转引起的流场变形,选用人涡模拟(LES)描述湍流.分析了叶轮启动过程巾内部非定常流动结构和演化过程及其与外部瞬态特性的关系,并与准稳态假设下的流动模拟结果进行了对比分析,定性地分析了离心泵在启动过程中的瞬态效应,验证了采用动网格方法求解启动过程瞬态流动的可行性.     

斜蜗舌对贯流风机内流的影响及降噪机制研究

本文提出采用一种新型的不等距蜗舌(这里统称为斜蜗舌)在提高风机的外特性性能的同时,相对降低噪声.通过试验与数值模拟,比较直叶片式,斜叶片式贯流风机分别用直蜗舌和斜蜗舌时内流、外特性及噪声频谱.采用三维Navier-Stokes方程和κ-ε两方程湍流模型对内部流场进行数值分析,发现与采用常规蜗舌的贯流风机不同的是斜蜗舌贯流风机偏心涡位置随着蜗舌间隙的变化而发生改变.本文旨在探讨斜蜗舌对贯流风机内流的影响及降噪的机制.     

横流风机轴向交错叶轮的噪声研究

本文研究了横流风机轴向交错叶轮的气动及噪声特性。首先进行了横流风机的气动性能实验并开展数值解析。用数值解析得到的固壁表面脉动压力进行噪声预测,噪声预测模型采用Farassat 1A方程。在预测过程中对叶轮交错角做出假设,转化成各节叶轮流场的时间延迟,并考虑了风机轴向长度带来的影响。计算结果给出了单一叶片周向旋转噪声辐射的分布情况,分析了噪声源的位置和机理。预测的远场声压从时域和频域与相应的五种具有不同轴向交错角度叶轮的实验结果相验证,揭示了风机的叶片通过频率噪声随叶轮交错角度的变化规律。     

基于涡声理论的低速轴流风机气动噪声研究

采用PIV和CFD对不同安装角低速轴流风机流场进行对比研究,结合低速等熵流动的涡声理论分析风机内部流场与噪声辐射关联,在此基础上计算风机气动噪声.研究表明,低速等熵流动的气动噪声主要源于流场中涡系的拉伸与破裂.均匀进气情况下低速轴流风机的主要气动噪声源为叶片尾缘涡脱落噪声和叶尖涡噪声,其中前者强度明显大于后者.在此基础上,应用基于CFD的涡脱落噪声预测模型对风机气动噪声预测结果与实验吻合较好.     

离心压气机非定常流动频域特性

以涡轮增压器56 mm离心压气机为研究对象,采用定常流动求解方法,对其三种不同转速下的工作特性进行了预测并与实验进行了对比分析;应用相延迟方法,对高转速近失速点工况下压气机内部的三维非定常流动进行了数值模拟及频谱分析,对叶轮流道、无叶扩压器以及蜗壳内的流动频谱特性进行了初步分析.频域分析表明,对于本文所研究的离心压气机,非定常脉动特性主要表现在叶轮流道中,是诱发压气机气动噪声的主要因素,而在蜗壳内,非定常脉动特性显著减弱.     

汽车涡轮增压器同步谐波噪声仿真与优化*

针对增压发动机急加速急减速时产生的增压器同步谐波噪声问题,该文通过噪声仿真技术进行分析与优化。首先,分析该噪声的特征与传播路径;其次,建立流场仿真模型。利用剪切应力输运湍流模型与分离涡流模拟湍流模型对增压器进行稳态与非稳态瞬态流场分析,提取非稳态流场的叶轮与压气机流道表面的偶极子声源;最后,建立噪声传播模型,计算该增压器压气机的进气口声场分布。通过理论分析与试验相结合的方法,优化叶轮轮缘与压气机壳体的配合型线,将该增压器噪声的阶次峰值最大降低约15.3 dB(A),消除了同步谐波噪声,且对发动机性能几乎无影响。该噪声的解决方法可以为压气机气动噪声优化提供有价值的参考。     

A numerical study on the flow and sound fields of centrifugal impeller located near a wedge

Centrifugal fans are widely used and the noise generated by these machines causes one of the serious problems. In general, the centrifugal fan noise is often dominated by tones at blade passage frequency and its higher harmonics. This is a consequence of the strong interaction between the flow discharged from the impeller and the cut-off in the casing. However, only a few researches have been carried out on predicting the noise because of the difficulty in obtaining detailed information about the flow field and considering the scattering effect of the casing. The objective of this study is to understand the generation mechanism of sound and to develop a prediction method for the unsteady flow field and the acoustic pressure field of the centrifugal impeller. A discrete vortex method is used to model the centrifugal impeller and a wedge and to calculate the flow field. The force of each element on the blade is calculated by the unsteady Bernoulli equation. Lowson's method is used to predict the acoustic source. In order to consider the scattering and diffraction effects of the casing, Kirchhoff-Helmholtz boundary element method (BEM) is developed. The source of Kirchhoff-Helmholtz BEM is newly developed, so the sound field of the centrifugal fan can be obtained. A centrifugal impeller and wedge are used in the numerical calculation and the results are compared with the experimental data. Reasonable results are obtained not only for the peak frequencies but also for the amplitudes of the tonal sound. The radiated acoustic field shows the diffraction and scattering effect of the wedge.     

Experiments on the unsteady flow field and noise generation in a centrifugal pump impeller

This paper reports on an experimental investigation of large-scale flowfield instabilities in a pump rotor and the process of noise generation by these instabilities. Measurements of the fluctuating components of velocity and surface pressure were made with hot-wire probes and surface mounted pressure transducers on a seven bladed back swept centrifugal water pump impeller operating with air as the working fluid. The impeller was operated without a volute or scroll diffuser, thereby eliminating any sound generation from pressure fluctuations on the volute cutoff. Thus the study focused on flow field and noise components other than the blade passage frequency (and its harmonics). The primary goal of the study was to provide fundamental information on the unsteady flow processes, particularly those associated with the noise generation in the device. It was further anticipated that detailed flow measurements would be useful for the validation of future computational simulations.The measured data at the discharge show a jet-wake type of flow pattern which results in a strong vorticity field. The flow with high velocity found on the pressure side of the impeller tends to move to the low-pressure region present at the suction side of the passage as a form of roll-up around the blade trailing edge. This motion causes an unsteady flow separation at the suction side of the blade and consequently disturbs the flow in the adjacent passage. By interacting with the impeller blades near the trailing edges, this instability flow causes a periodic pressure fluctuation on the blade surface and generates noise by a trailing edge generation mechanism. The spectrum of surface pressure measured at the trailing edge of each blade reveals a cluster of peaks which were identified with azimuthal mode numbers. The correlation between the acoustic farfield pressure and the surface pressure on the impeller blade has proven that the azimuthal modes synchronized with the number of impeller blades generate noise much more efficiently than the other modes. The paper also clarifies the correlation between unsteady flowfield measurements, in both impeller and laboratory co-ordinates, with the radiated noise properties. Thus some light is shed on the noise generation mechanisms of this particular device.     

Effect of blade wrap angle on efficiency and noise of small radial fan impellers—A computational and experimental study

Radial impellers have several technical applications. Regarding their aerodynamic performance, they are well optimized nowadays, but this is in general not true regarding acoustics. This work was therefore concerned with analyzing the flow structures inside isolated radial impellers together with the far-field sound radiated from them in order to optimize the aerodynamic and acoustic performance. Both numerical and experimental techniques were applied in order to study the effect of varying wrap angle and otherwise identical geometric configuration on aerodynamics and acoustics of the radial impellers. The results give a detailed insight into the processes leading to sound generation in radial impellers. Measurements were performed using laser Doppler anemometry for the flow field and microphone measurements to analyze the radiated noise. In addition, unsteady aerodynamic simulations were carried out to calculate the compressible flow field. An acoustic analogy was employed to compute far-field noise. Finally, the phenomena responsible for tonal noise and the role of the wrap angle could be identified. Using this knowledge, design guidelines are given to optimize the impeller with respect to the radiated noise. This work shows that improved aerodynamic efficiency for isolated impellers does not automatically lead to a smaller flow-induced sound radiation.     

Sound radiation from inflow turbulence in axial flow fans

The sound radiated when inflow turbulence is present in axial flow fans has been investigated. Theoretically, two noise radiating mechanisms can be identified: (i) interaction of turbulence with the rotor potential field results in a quadrupole-type volume source distribution, producing “flow-interaction” noise; (ii) impingement of turbulence on the blades results in a dipole-type (fluctuating force) surface source distribution, producing “fluctuating lift” noise. A theoretical expression for the flow interaction sound power in the upstream radiation field has been developed, in terms of parameters that can be experimentally determined by near field flow measurements involving spatial cross-correlations of the fluctuating axial velocity, with respect to both radial and circumferential position. Both these measurements and radiated sound pressure measurements have been made for eight- and ten-bladed rotors of relatively low tip Mach number (< 0·3). The sound pressure measurements revealed the occurrence of band-spreading of discrete tones at the blade passing frequency and its harmonics, as would be theoretically predicted for quadrupole-type sources here. The theoretical predictions and the measurements, respectively, of the sound power radiated upstream were compared. The results indicated that, for the fans tested, the “fluctuating lift” noise strongly predominated over the “flow-interaction” noise. The observed sound power levels were consistent with levels estimated from the theory.     

不同叶轮形式下离心泵噪声特性对比研究

针对具有无短叶片和有短叶片两种叶轮形式的离心泵,对设计状态下离心泵内部流场进行了全三维、非定常数值模拟,对比分析了其非定常流场特性和噪声辐射特性。流场分析表明:叶轮叶片和蜗舌的相互作用造成了叶片表面强烈的压力脉动,对长短叶片的叶轮形式,在局部增加长叶片表面压力脉动的同时,短叶片表面的压力脉动保持较低水平;同时能够有效降低泵体进口压力脉动,但出口压力脉动有所增强。以叶轮叶片表面作为声源辐射面,对比分析了两种叶轮的偶极子噪声辐射特性,结果表明:长短叶片结构通过改变声能在频域上的分布,从而能有效降低总声压级。      

Influence of geometrical parameters upon the sound power level of centrifugal fans

The formula for sound power radiated to the environment expressed as a function of tip speed does not take into account the influence of the impeller shape. Thus it may be used for noise assessment of geometrically similar fans only, since in this case the proportionality coefficient appearing in the formula remains constant. When determining the sound power as a function of the absolute velocity of gas exhaust from the impeller a formula was derived that covers the dependence of sound power or its level on the geometrical parameters of the impeller.     

Numerical and experimental investigations of the unsteady aerodynamics and aero-acoustics characteristics of a backward curved blade centrifugal fan

A numerical study of the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic behaviors of a backward curved blade centrifugal fan was conducted under two important flow conditions: BEP and 1.3 × BEP. Three-dimensional numerical simulations of the complete unsteady flow field for the whole impeller-volute configuration were used to determine the aeroacoustic sources. To locate the unsteady flow and perturbations, the near field wall pressure fluctuations at different strategic points on the volute were computed using the URANS approach. Thus the intensities and positions of the aeroacoustic sources were identified by analyzing frequency spectra. The aeroacoustic sources caused by fluctuations in the interactions of the flows leaving the impeller and volute were close to the volute tongue, and the most effective noise sources related to the flow rate were near the impeller shrouds. In addition, the unsteady flow variables provided by CFD calculations were used as inputs in the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings equation to estimate the noise tones of the fan. The aeroacoustic calculation results showed that the volute noise was much larger than the blade noise, and the noise mainly propagated from the outlet duct of the fan. Moreover, to account for the noise propagation, three calculation methods were used by applying different solid boundaries. Compared with the other methods, the FEM method, which accounted for the complex solid boundaries, produced good agreement and showed that the complex solid boundaries cannot be neglected in aeroacoustic predictions. The calculation results showed good agreement with the experimental results.     

贯流风机变斜式叶轮和常规直叶轮的对比研究

本文对贯流风机变斜式叶轮和常规直叶轮进行了三维数值模拟和实验研究。结果表明贯流风机内部偏心涡的位置沿轴向具有明显的三维分布特征,两者偏心涡的圆周位置沿轴向不断变化,而直叶轮偏心涡的径向位置沿轴向的分布几乎没有变化。变斜式叶轮中偏心涡的位置更加靠近叶轮内圆周和风机的蜗舌。采用变斜式叶轮可以降低叶片通过频率噪声并改善音质。为验证本计算方法的可靠性,计算的流量和压力特性曲线和实验结果进行了比较,吻合良好。     

Effect of inlet duct contour and lack thereof on the noise generated of an axial flow fan

This study concerns the unsteady flows in turbomachines in general, and the aeroacoustics of fans in particular. The principal objective of this paper is the determination of the influence of the upstream environment on the acoustic and aerodynamic behavior of axial fans. After analysis of the various sources of noise present in turbomachines, interest is focused on the influence of the disturbances of the velocity field at the suction. Accordingly, the effect of the presence of a contoured duct and a lack thereof at the inlet of an axial flow fan is analyzed . The results show the strong involvement of the upstream turbulence level in the generation of the noise, and in particular, of broadband noise.