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Effects of axial gap on aerodynamic force and response of shrouded and unshrouded blade

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Forced response analysis of a rocket engine turbine blade was conducted by a decoupled fluid-structure interaction procedure. Aerodynamic forces on the rotor blade were obtained using 3D unsteady flow simulations. The resulting aerodynamic forces were interpolated to the finite element (FE) model through surface effect elements prior to conducting forced response calculations. Effects of axial gap on aerodynamic forces were studied. In addition, influence of axial gap on the response of the shrouded blade was compared with that on the response of the unshrouded blade. Results demonstrated that as the axial gap increases, time-averaged pressure on the blade surface changes very little, while the pressure fluctuations decrease significantly. Pressure and aerodynamic forces on the blade surface display periodic variation, and the vane passing frequency component is dominant. Amplitudes of aerodynamic forces decrease with increasing axial gap. Restricted by the shroud, deformation and response of shrouded blade are much lower than those of the unshrouded blade. The response of unshrouded blade shows obvious beat vibration phenomenon, while the response of the shrouded blade does not have this characteristic because the shroud restrains multiple harmonics. Blade response in time domain was converted to frequency domain using fast Fourier transformation (FFT). Results revealed that the axial gap mainly affects the forced harmonic at the vane passing frequency, while the other two harmonics at natural frequency are hardly affected. Amplitudes of the unshrouded blade response decrease as the axial gap increases, while amplitudes of the shrouded blade response change very little in comparison.

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    JinPeng Jiang, JiaWen Li, GuoBiao Cai & Jue Wang

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Jiang, J., Li, J., Cai, G. et al. Effects of axial gap on aerodynamic force and response of shrouded and unshrouded blade. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 60, 491–500 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-016-9010-y

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