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Noise Mechanisms of an Axial Turbine Stage Based on Large Eddy Simulation

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This paper aims at identifying the noise sources in an axial turbine stage and their relative importance. The Large eddy simulation (LES) has been carried out on a geometry containing single rotor and stator passages and the mesh of the rotor domain is circumferentially sliding. The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is applied to data matrices constructed with the pressure fields in order to distinctly extract the coherent structures responsible for noise generation. The results show that the rotor–stator interaction contributes up to 50% of the total sound energy, the flow fluctuations are influenced by the rotor–stator interaction even in the very upstream region of the stator passage due to the massive pressure wave reflections between the stator vane row and the rotor blade row. Therefore, the tonal noise at the blade passing frequency and its second harmonic frequency are the dominant noise of the turbine stage. An aerodynamic-acoustic feedback loop is observed in the stator passage and it is mainly due to the emission, reflection and interference of the pressure waves generated by the trailing edge vortex shedding. The surface pressure levels of the rotor blade surface are lower than those of the stator vane surface, thus the rotor blades have a smaller contribution to the overall noise level of the turbine stage than the stator vanes, since there is no aerodynamic-acoustic feedback loop in the rotor passage.

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This work was supported by the [National Major Science and Technology Projects of China] under Grant [J2019-I-0007-0007]; [China Scholarship Council] under Grant [CSC202306680027]; and the [Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities] under Grant [3072022QBZ0308].

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China Scholarship Council (CSC202306680027), National Science and Technology Major Project (J2019-I-0007-0007), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (3072022QBZ0308).

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  1. College of Power and Energy Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China

    Lanyi Yan, Yigang Luan, Tao Sun & Lianfeng Yang

  2. Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transport Engineering, University of Genoa, 16126, Genoa, Italy

    Daniele Simoni & Pietro Zunino

  3. Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Franco Magagnato

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by [Lanyi Yan], [Yigang Luan] and [Daniele Simoni]. The first draft of the manuscript was written by [Lanyi Yan] and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Major contributors: Conceptualization: [Yigang Luan], [Lanyi Yan]; Methodology: [Lanyi Yan], [Pietro Zunino], [Franco Magagnato]; Formal analysis and investigation: [Lanyi Yan], [Yigang Luan] and[Daniele Simoni]; Writing—original draft preparation: [Lanyi Yan]; Writing—review and editing: [Tao Sun], [Lianfeng Yang]; Funding acquisition: [Yigang Luan], [Lanyi Yan]; Resources: [Yigang Luan], [Tao Sun]; Supervision: [Yigang Luan], [Pietro Zunino].

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Yan, L., Luan, Y., Simoni, D. et al. Noise Mechanisms of an Axial Turbine Stage Based on Large Eddy Simulation. Flow Turbulence Combust (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-024-00547-1

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