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This paper describes the impact of active separation control by means of pulsed blowing in a highly loaded compressor cascade. Experimental investigations with AFC were undertaken in order to increase the performance of the stator cascade. Two different concepts of actuation were tried. At first, pulsed blowing out of the casing was used to reduce the secondary flow structures. Secondly, the flow was excited with actuators mounted on the blade’s suction side, suppressing the pressure-induced flow separation. In a final step, both actuator concepts were combined with selected excitation amplitudes and frequencies. These demonstrations show that the gain achieved in both actuator concepts can be combined, using certain excitation parameters and no interaction with negative effects occur.
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Hecklau, M., Zander, V., Peltzer, I., Nitsche, W., Huppertz, A., Swoboda, M. (2010). Experimental AFC Approaches on a Highly Loaded Compressor Cascade. In: King, R. (eds) Active Flow Control II. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, vol 108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11735-0_12
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