Simulation of unsteady viscous turbomachinery flowfields is presently impractical as a design tool due to the long run times required. Designers rely predominantly on steady-state simulations, but these simulations do not account for some of the important unsteady flow physics. Unsteady flow effects can be modeled as source terms in the steady flow equations. These source terms, referred to as Lumped Deterministic Stresses (LDS), can be used to drive steady flow solution procedures to reproduce the time-average of an unsteady flow solution. The goal of this work is to investigate the feasibility of using inviscid lumped deterministic stresses to model unsteady combustion hot streak migration effects on the turbine blade tip and outer air seal heat loads. The LDS model is obtained from an unsteady inviscid calculation. The inviscid LDS model is then used with a steady viscous computation to simulate the time-averaged viscous solution. The feasibility of the inviscid LDS model is demonstrated on a single-stage, three-dimensional, vane-blade turbine with a hot streak entering the vane passage at midpitch and midspan. The steady viscous solution with the LDS model is compared to the time-averaged viscous, steady viscous, and time-averaged inviscid computations. The LDS model reproduces the time-averaged viscous temperature distribution on the outer air seal to within 2.3 percent, while the steady viscous has an error of 8.4 percent, and the time-averaged inviscid calculation has an error of 17.2 percent. The solution using the LDS model is obtained at a cost in CPU time that is 26 percent of that required for a time-averaged viscous computation. [S0889-504X(00)00601-2]

Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Keywords:
gas turbines, flow simulation, combustion, turbulent diffusion, temperature distribution
Topics:
Blades, Computation, Flow (Dynamics), Modeling, Stress, Temperature, Temperature distribution, Turbines, Combustion, Rotors, Simulation, Steady state, Errors, Heat, Gas turbines
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