Main Gas Ingestion in a Turbine Stage for Three Rim Cavity Configurations
Author:
Zhou D. W.1, Roy R. P.1, Wang C.-Z.2, Glahn J. A.2
Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 2. Pratt and Whitney, East Hartford, CT 06118
Abstract
Experiments were carried out in a model air turbine stage to study the influence of rotor-stator rim cavity configuration on the ingestion of mainstream gas into the cavity. The three rim cavity configurations differed in their aspect ratio (height/width); the rim seal geometry remained the same. The aspect ratio was changed from the baseline ratio by installing an inner shell on the stator at an appropriate radius; this effectively introduced an axial-gap seal between the rim cavity and the cavity radially inboard. The initial step in each experiment was the measurement of time-average static pressure distribution in the turbine stage to ascertain that proper flow condition had been established. Subsequently, tracer gas concentration and particle image velocimetry techniques were employed to measure the time-average but spatially local main gas ingestion and the instantaneous velocity field in the rim cavity. At low purge air flow, regions of ingestion and egress could be identified by inspecting the instantaneous radial velocity distribution near the rim seal obtained from cavity gas velocity maps close to the stator. While the tangential velocity tended to be slightly larger for the so determined ingested gas, a more clear-cut indicator of ingestion was the strong inward gas radial velocity. Information provided by ensemble-average velocity maps was not sufficient for identifying ingestion because the averaging smeared out flow details, which varied from instant to instant. Velocity fields obtained from three-dimensional, time-dependent numerical simulation of a rim seal-cavity sector with similar dimensions qualitatively showed similar characteristics in the outer part of the cavity and provided insight into the complex flow in the seal region.
Publisher
ASME International
Subject
Mechanical Engineering
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