Effect of tip winglet position on tip flow and noise of axial flow fan

Abstract

In order to investigate the impact of blade tip winglet position on the internal flow and noise characteristics of axial flow fans,three different blade tip winglets,namely the TSW blade, the SSW blade, and the PSW blade,were hereby proposed. The accuracy of the simulation model was verified through experiments, and the circumferential internal flow characteristics and noise characteristics of these different blades were studied by numerical simulation using the blade tip partition method. The calculation results indicated the high-level efficiency of TSW, SSW and PSW blades in reducing the blade tip leakage flow in Z1 and Z2 regions and suppressing its circumferential propagation in the Z3 region. Besides, it was found that SSW blade and PSW blade had larger total pressure loss relative to Ori blade, and that TSW had higher total pressure difference at low blade height. Additionally TSW blades performed the best in improving the blade tip blockage,while TSW, SSW and PSW blades effectively reduced the leakage flow against the main stream, and blade tip winglet blades could effectively improve the fan discrete noise, SSW had the most significant noise reduction effect in the total sound pressure level, and in the overall blade,Z1, Z2 and Z3 were reduced by 2.16 dB,1.68 dB,2.24 dB and 3.74 dB.

Keywords

• Axial flow fan
• Tip winglet
• Internal flow characteristic
• Fan noise
• Tip leakage flow