Incidence Adaptation to the Influence of Wake Sweeps on the Aerodynamic Performance of a Low-Pressure Turbine Cascade

Abstract

In order to investigate the transport law of an unsteady wake in a downstream cascade channel in a turbine stage environment, this study was based on a self-designed unsteady wake generator, and a low-pressure turbine cascade was the research object. The research was carried out through a combination of experiments and numerical simulation. The results show that in the range of −50° to 20° inflow incidence, there is no separation on the blade suction surface, the total pressure loss coefficient is low, and the cascade has good adaptability to the inflow incidence. When the incoming flow is at a negative incidence, the transport of the unsteady upstream wake to the downstream unsteady wake is basically the same; the same holds for a non-negative incidence. When the upstream unsteady wake is transported downstream in the cascade channel, the wake near the cascade suction surface follows a detour and barely interacts with the mainstream fluid. The total pressure loss fluctuation value obtained via numerical calculation shows good periodicity; therefore, the unsteady cascade effect under the action of upstream wake sweeping becomes very obvious.

Keywords

• low-pressure turbine cascade
• upstream unsteady wake
• incidence adaptability
• experimental study