An experimental investigation was carried out on the effect of blade chordwise lean on the losses in highly loaded rectangular turbine cascades. Detailed measurements include 10 traverses from upstream to downstream o...An experimental investigation was carried out on the effect of blade chordwise lean on the losses in highly loaded rectangular turbine cascades. Detailed measurements include 10 traverses from upstream to downstream of the cascades with five-hole spherical probes. Compared with the experimental data of the conventional straight and pitchwise lean blades under the same conditions, it is shown that the effect of chordwise lean on the development of the cascade losses is similar to that of pitchwise lean. However, the chordwise lean produces smaller streamwise adverse pressure gradients near both endwalls and a smaller spanwise negative one starting from the acute angle side in the first part of the passages in chordwise lean cascade, thereby the saddle point separations and intensities of the passage vortices are weakened and the secondary vortex losses are cut down notably.展开更多
A series of wind tunnel tests was conducted to examine how an end plate affects the pressure distributions of two wings with leading edge（LE） sweep angles of 23° and 40°. All the experiments were carried o...A series of wind tunnel tests was conducted to examine how an end plate affects the pressure distributions of two wings with leading edge（LE） sweep angles of 23° and 40°. All the experiments were carried out at a midchord Reynolds number of 8×10～5, covering an angle of attack（AOA） range from -2° to 14°. Static pressure distribution measurements were acquired over the upper surfaces of the wings along three chordwise rows and one spanwise direction at the wing quarter-chord line. The results of the tests confirm that at a particular AOA, increasing the sweep angle causes a noticeable decrease in the upper-surface suction pressure. Furthermore, as the sweep angle increases, the development of a laminar separation bubble near the LEs of the wings takes place at higher AOAs. On the other hand, spanwise pressure measurements show that increasing the wing sweep angle results in forming a stronger vortex on the quarter-chord line which has lower sensitivity to AOA variation and remains substantially attached to the wing surface for higher AOAs than that can be achieved in the case of a lower sweep angle. In addition, data obtained indicate that installing an end plate further reinforces the spanwise flow over the wing surface, thus affecting the pressure distribution.展开更多
This article presents an approach which employs a commercial Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes（RANS）solver to predict the steady wake field and loading distributions for a rim driven thruster.Four different cases of p...This article presents an approach which employs a commercial Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes（RANS）solver to predict the steady wake field and loading distributions for a rim driven thruster.Four different cases of propeller blades are chosen to be calculated with the presented method.The propeller blade radial circulation and chordwise circulation density distributions are analyzed.The maximum radial circulation is found at the blade tip,which is different from conventional shaft driven propeller.The numerical results indicate that there is no tip leakage vortex in rim driven propulors.But there exist the tip joint vortex and the root region vortex.Bollard characteristics are calculated by taking rim surface effect into account.From the predicted results the second case in this paper is selected as the final one to perform hydrodynamic experiment.The calculation results with empirical rim surface corrections are compared with the measurement.It shows that the developed numerical method can well predict hydrodynamic performances of the rim driven thruster.展开更多
文摘An experimental investigation was carried out on the effect of blade chordwise lean on the losses in highly loaded rectangular turbine cascades. Detailed measurements include 10 traverses from upstream to downstream of the cascades with five-hole spherical probes. Compared with the experimental data of the conventional straight and pitchwise lean blades under the same conditions, it is shown that the effect of chordwise lean on the development of the cascade losses is similar to that of pitchwise lean. However, the chordwise lean produces smaller streamwise adverse pressure gradients near both endwalls and a smaller spanwise negative one starting from the acute angle side in the first part of the passages in chordwise lean cascade, thereby the saddle point separations and intensities of the passage vortices are weakened and the secondary vortex losses are cut down notably.
文摘A series of wind tunnel tests was conducted to examine how an end plate affects the pressure distributions of two wings with leading edge（LE） sweep angles of 23° and 40°. All the experiments were carried out at a midchord Reynolds number of 8×10～5, covering an angle of attack（AOA） range from -2° to 14°. Static pressure distribution measurements were acquired over the upper surfaces of the wings along three chordwise rows and one spanwise direction at the wing quarter-chord line. The results of the tests confirm that at a particular AOA, increasing the sweep angle causes a noticeable decrease in the upper-surface suction pressure. Furthermore, as the sweep angle increases, the development of a laminar separation bubble near the LEs of the wings takes place at higher AOAs. On the other hand, spanwise pressure measurements show that increasing the wing sweep angle results in forming a stronger vortex on the quarter-chord line which has lower sensitivity to AOA variation and remains substantially attached to the wing surface for higher AOAs than that can be achieved in the case of a lower sweep angle. In addition, data obtained indicate that installing an end plate further reinforces the spanwise flow over the wing surface, thus affecting the pressure distribution.
文摘This article presents an approach which employs a commercial Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes（RANS）solver to predict the steady wake field and loading distributions for a rim driven thruster.Four different cases of propeller blades are chosen to be calculated with the presented method.The propeller blade radial circulation and chordwise circulation density distributions are analyzed.The maximum radial circulation is found at the blade tip,which is different from conventional shaft driven propeller.The numerical results indicate that there is no tip leakage vortex in rim driven propulors.But there exist the tip joint vortex and the root region vortex.Bollard characteristics are calculated by taking rim surface effect into account.From the predicted results the second case in this paper is selected as the final one to perform hydrodynamic experiment.The calculation results with empirical rim surface corrections are compared with the measurement.It shows that the developed numerical method can well predict hydrodynamic performances of the rim driven thruster.
