Steady and unsteady simulations were conducted to investigate the complicated flow in a transonic centrifugal compressor with splitter blade.Results from the steady and unsteady simulations were compared and the interactions between impeller and diffuser were studied in detail.The results indicate that the impeller/diffuser interaction can affect a range of 30% impeller chord for impeller trailing edge on impeller performance and whole chord length on diffuser performance.The potential effects of the diffuser caused an unsteady pressure disturbance for the impeller exit
leading to the unsteadiness of impeller load
tip leakage flow and losses.While the unsteadiness of impeller exit flow caused periodical variation of inlet flow conditions for the diffuser
and the inlet flow angle was found to be the most significant parameter in setting diffuser performance
resulting in significant unsteadiness of blade load and total pressure recovery coefficient.
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Related Author
LIU Yang-wei
HUANG Wei-bing
LIU Bao-jie
CHEN Jie
HE Min-xiang
HUANG Guo-ping
XIAO Da-qi
ZHENG Yun
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National Key Laboratory on Aero-Engines, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of Aerospace Power System, College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Aeroengine Numerical Simulation Research Center, School of Jet Propulsion,Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Aero-engine Aero-thermodynamics,School of Jet Propulsion, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics