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Experimental analysis of the rotor stator interaction within a high pressure centrifugal compressor

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An analysis of the experimental results obtained by laser two focus anemometry in the rotor-stator inter-row region of a high-speed high-pressure centrifugal compressor is presented with the aim of quantifying the unsteady effects of the rotor-stator interaction. Two complementary methods are used. First, the results are analyzed in terms of the time-averaging procedure developed by Adamczyk. The purely time dependent correlations of the velocity components are quantified. They show that the unsteady interaction is mainly due to the splitter wake-vane interaction. Then, it is shown that the rotor-stator interaction produces spatial harmonics which are identified as spinning modes by means of Fourier series.

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  1. Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, UMR CNRS 5509 / ECL / UCB Lyon I, 69131, Ecully Cedex, France

    Isabelle Trébinjac & Christophe Vixège

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Trébinjac, I., Vixège, C. Experimental analysis of the rotor stator interaction within a high pressure centrifugal compressor. J. of Therm. Sci. 11, 1–9 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-002-0014-4

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