Adaptation of a Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation to Represent Gas Turbine Engine Compression Systems

Abstract

A new three-dimensional compression system simulation was constructed by coupling the three-dimensional Navier Stokes flow solver, NPARC, with source terms that model the effects of turbomachinery components. A stage by stage characteristic technique adapted from the one-dimensional compressor code, DYNTECC, was used to calculate the turbomachinery source terms. This report discusses the development, adaptation, and implementation of the stage characteristic approach for calculating sources used in NPARC. The distribution of the source terms from the one-dimensional domain to the three-dimensional domain is presented, and an investigation of the radial distribution of the sources during pre-stall compressor performance was conducted. A simple compressor, consisting of a single transonic rotor, was modeled because experimental data were available for comparison.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA323897

Entities

People

  • Jacqueline C. Chalk

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Axial Flow
  • Compressors
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Experimental Data
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Gas Turbines
  • Geometry
  • Secondary Flow
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbines
  • Turbomachinery
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)