• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.415-431
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• 2022

Secondary flows have a huge impact on losses generation in modern low pressure gas turbines (LPTs). At design point, the interaction of the blade profile with the end-wall boundary layer is responsible for up to 40% of total losses. Therefore, predicting accurately the end-wall flow field in a LPT is extremely important in the industrial design phase. Since the inlet boundary layer profile is one of the factors which most affects the evolution of secondary flows, the first main objective of the present work is to investigate the impact of two different inlet conditions on the end-wall flow field of the T106A, a well known LPT cascade. The first condition, labeled in the paper as C1, is represented by uniform conditions at the inlet plane and the second, C2, by a flow characterized by a defined inlet boundary layer profile. The code used for the simulations is based on the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) formulation and solves the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations coupled with the Spalart Allmaras turbulence model. Secondly, this work aims at estimating the influence of viscosity and turbulence on the T106A end-wall flow field. In order to do so, RANS results are compared with those obtained from an inviscid simulation with a prescribed inlet total pressure profile, which mimics a boundary layer. A comparison between C1 and C2 results highlights an influence of secondary flows on the flow field up to a significant distance from the end-wall. In particular, the C2 end-wall flow field appears to be characterized by greater over turning and under turning angles and higher total pressure losses. Furthermore, the C2 simulated flow field shows good agreement with experimental and numerical data available in literature. The C2 and inviscid Euler computed flow fields, although globally comparable, present evident differences. The cascade passage simulated with inviscid flow is mainly dominated by a single large and homogeneous vortex structure, less stretched in the spanwise direction and closer to the end-wall than vortical structures computed by compressible flow simulation. It is reasonable, then, asserting that for the chosen test case a great part of the secondary flows details is strongly dependent on viscous phenomena and turbulence.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권6B호
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• pp.643-651
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 횡방향 언덕-저면의 하상형상을 갖는 개수로 흐름을 수치모의 하였다. 곡선좌표계에 대한 지배방정식을 유도하고, 난류폐합을 위해 Speziale(1987)가 제안한 비선형 $k-{\varepsilon}$ 모형을 이용하였다. 개발된 모형의 개수로 흐름에 대한 적용성 및 모형 상수의 민감도를 분석하기 위해 직사각형 개수로 흐름을 수치모의 하였다. 그 결과 모형상수 $C_D$와 $C_E$는 각각 이차흐름 강도 및 난류의 비등방성에 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 또한 비선형 $k-{\varepsilon}$ 모형이 자유수면에서 발생되는 난류의 비등방성을 정확히 모의할 수 없는 것으로 나타났으나, 전반적인 이차흐름 분포는 비교적 잘 예측하는 것으로 확인되었다. 한편 개발된 모형을 이용하여 횡방향 하상형상을 갖는 개수로 흐름을 수치모의하고 기존의 실험 결과와 비교하였다. 그 결과 비선형 $k-{\varepsilon}$ 모형이 하상형상의 언덕과 저면에서 발생되는 상향류 및 하향류를 비교적 정확히 예측하는 것으로 나타났으며, 계산된 주흐름방향 평균유속 및 난류구조 역시 기존의 실험 결과와 잘 일치하였다. 그러나 비선형 $k-{\varepsilon}$ 모형은 하상형상의 저면을 향하는 하향류를 과소 산정하는 것으로 확인되었다.