Aerothermodynamics

Modal Analysis of Axial Compressor Tip Rotating Instability under Varying Operating Conditions

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  • 1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
    2. Engineering Research Centre of Gas Turbine and Civil Aero Engine, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Online published: 2023-11-11

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This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (Grant No. 18ZR1418600) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11202132).

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Science Press, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2023

Abstract

The full annulus numerical research was performed on a low-speed compressor rotor to investigate the rotating instability in the tip region. The frequency spectra show the existence of rotating instability at narrow stable operating range. With the decrease of flow rate, 31 cells of flow disturbance can be found in the instantaneous flow field. The distribution of vortex suggests that the circumferential propagation of the interaction between tip leakage vortex and adjacent blade brings about these cells. The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) method and spatial discrete Fourier transform (SDFT) were applied to obtain the circumferential mode features, and the results indicate that the rotating instability is associated with the 31 cells of flow disturbance. Then the DMD method was further applied on the pressure data from a circle and an annulus domain, so as to extract different mode components with the corresponding spatial structures, frequencies and amplitudes. The results suggest that DMD modes can display the flow feature and explore the evolution of each instability source in the tip flow field.

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LI Tao, WU Yadong, TIAN Jie, OUYANG Hua . Modal Analysis of Axial Compressor Tip Rotating Instability under Varying Operating Conditions[J]. Journal of Thermal Science, 2023 , 32(4) : 1345 -1356 . DOI: 10.1007/s11630-023-1830-y

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