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Variable Clearance Characteristics of High Subsonic Compressor Cascades with Blade Tip Winglets

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The gas turbine is the main power equipment for naval ship and special civil ship, while the compressor is one of the core structures of the gas turbine. The existing tip clearance could prevent the compressor blade and casing collision. Therefore, the flow loss in the tip region caused by the tip clearance will degrade the performance of the compressor. To improve the variable clearance characteristics of the high subsonic compressor cascades, the cascades with tip clearances of 1%, 2% and 3% chord length are studied through experimental measurements and numerical calculations. The research results prove that the pressure surface tip winglet can cause a significant improvement effect under most working conditions. If the blade tip clearance size is gradually increasing within a reasonable range, the improvement effect becomes more remarkable, and the optimal tip winglet case changes. When tip clearance is 1% chord length, the PTW1.0 case (the width of the pressure surface tip winglet is 1.0 time of the original tip) reduces the flow loss by 3.09% compared with the NTW case (No Tip Winglet). When tip clearance is 2% chord length, the flow loss of PTW1.5 case (the width of the pressure surface tip winglet is 1.5 times of the original tip) is reduced by 3.46%. When tip clearance is 3% chord length, all alternative tip winglets reduce the total pressure loss, and PTW2.0 case (the width of the pressure surface tip winglet is 2.0 times of the original tip) is the best choice, which has a 6.53% degree of improvement.

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This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51906134 and 51436002).

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Wu, W., Zhong, J. Variable Clearance Characteristics of High Subsonic Compressor Cascades with Blade Tip Winglets. J. Therm. Sci. 31, 495–510 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-022-1532-x

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