Transient Flutter Stability Analysis of Structural Mistuned Blisk by Energy Growth Method

Abstract

Abstract Blisks suffer from flutter, a self-sustained vibration caused by aerodynamic coupled forces. This instability could cause serious damage to the blades and the machine. Flutter stability is usually analyzed based on the eigenvalue method in the aspect of the linear structural dynamic system, which transforms a dynamics stability analysis into a point of equilibrium in an infinite time scale. However, in reality, most of the blisk vibrations arise on a finite time horizon. The transient vibration amplification may cause serious damage. This paper proposes a transient flutter stability analysis method in a finite time for structural mistuned blisk based on the energy growth method. First, two common blisk models coupled aerodynamic force with different complexity are built and are all expressed in the state space representation. A novel energy growth method is then employed to analyze the transient stability and to find the maximum energy growth of the models. The optimal initial condition which leads to the maximum energy growth is obtained. A new flutter stability criterion is developed to consider the transient stability based on the energy growth method and the infinite time stability based on the eigenvalue method. The new transient stability method is verified by two numerical studies. It is found that the structural mistuned blisk model which is traditionally predicted stable still has a transient instability in a finite time due to the non-normal property of the dynamic state matrix.