Journal
ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 313-327Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2021.1875887
Keywords
Centrifugal compressor; unsteady flow; wake interaction; potential interaction
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51806164]
- Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China [2018JQ5185]
- State Key Laboratory of Airconditioning Equipment and System Energy Conservation, China
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This study develops a method to investigate the effects of wake and potential interactions on the flow velocity characteristics of a two-stage centrifugal refrigeration compressor, by studying the detailed features of flow velocity downstream each cascade of blades/vanes to understand their impact on flow evolution.
Both potential and wake interactions are usually the primary mechanisms related to the unsteadiness in turbomachines. However, it is usually difficult to distinguish their effects on flow evolution. This paper develops a direct and visual method to investigate the effects of wake and potential interactions on features of the flow velocity in a two-stage centrifugal refrigeration compressor. The centrifugal compressor consists of six cascades of blades/vanes, i.e. inlet guide vanes in the first stage, impeller blades and vaned diffusers in both stages and return channel in the second stage. The detailed features of flow velocity, such as time-averaged flow velocity, instantaneous flow velocity and power density spectrum of the flow velocity, downstream each cascade of blades/vanes are studied in detail to investigate the potential and wake interactions on the flow evolution in the centrifugal compressor.
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