Formulation and Comparison of Instantaneous Distortion Indices for Assessing Compressor Stall.

Abstract

This thesis examines the problem of predicting distortion induced stall in an axial flow compressor. Three instantaneous distortion indices are used on the data presented. The data consist of eleven stall events run at 2.5 Mach by NASA Lewis on a J85-GE-13 turbojet engine. The three indices used include two indices based on vorticity and developed at the Naval Postgraduate School. The third index was developed by Pratt and Whitney and is based on total pressure distributions. The three indices are compared by visual means using computer plots and are also compared by using a simple statistical approach. The computer program used was first developed by Shoemaker in his Master's thesis. The program is expanded in this thesis to compute and compare the three indices. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0784767

Entities

People

  • John Lloyd Vann

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Axial Flow
  • Axial Flow Compressors
  • Compressors
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Distortion
  • Engines
  • Flow
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Turbojet Engines

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Regression Analysis.