The Calculation of Three Dimensional Viscous Flow Through Multistage Turbomachines

Abstract

The extension of a well established three dimensional flow calculation method to calculate the flow through multiple turbomachinery blade rows is described in this paper. To avoid calculating the unsteady flow, which is inherent in any machine containing both rotating and stationary blade rows, a mixing process is modelled at a calculating station between adjacent blade rows. The effects of this mixing on the flow within the blade rows may be minimised by using extrapolated boundary conditions at the mixing plane.