Effect of high-radial sealing hole structure on characteristics of turbine rim seal
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摘要:
为探究涡轮轮缘密封的精细化设计,在径向轮缘密封结构的基础上引入一种高径位供气孔结构并将高位孔作为主要的封严气路,采用经实验验证的非定常雷诺平均(URANS)数值方法,研究了供气孔的周向进气角度和孔的数目对密封腔的封严效率和非定常流动特性的影响规律,分析了供气孔结构对腔内的不稳定性流动结构和燃气入侵程度的影响机理。结果表明:改变供气孔的周向进气角度最优可将封严效率提高10.15%,最差使其降低8.32%。负进气角的供气孔使腔内的非定常效应增强,伴随有更强烈的流体剪切作用,导致Kelvin-Helmholtz不稳定性涡结构尺度增大,燃气入侵程度加剧,封严效率降低;正进气角的供气孔使掺混后流体的相对速度方向更加统一,Kelvin-Helmholtz不稳定性涡结构尺度减小,燃气入侵程度减弱,封严效率提高。增加孔的数目减小了封严气的射流动量,导致腔内Kelvin-Helmholtz不稳定性涡结构尺度增大,加剧了燃气倒灌的深度,使封严效率降低,但高于无供气孔的轮缘密封结构的封严效率。
Abstract:To investigate the detailed design of turbine rim seal, a high-radial sealing hole structure was presented on the basis of the radial rim seal configuration, and the hole was considered as the main sealing flow path. The effects of circumferential injection angle and the number of holes on the sealing efficiency and unsteady flow characteristics in the wheel-space were studied using the experimentally validated unsteady Reynolds-average Navier-Stokes (URANS) numerical method, and the influence mechanisms of the hole structure on the instability flow structure and the degree of gas ingestion in the wheel-space were analyzed. The results showed that the change of circumferential injection angle of the hole can optimize the sealing efficiency by 10.15%, and also can reduce it by 8.32% in the worst case. Negative injection angle of the hole enhanced the unsteady effect in the wheel-space, accompanied by stronger fluid shear, which led to an increase in the scale of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability vortex structure, the increase of gas ingestion and decrease of sealing efficiency. Positive injection angle of the hole made the relative velocity direction of the mixed fluid more uniform, which reduced the scale of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability vortex structure; the degree of gas ingestion was weakened, and the sealing efficiency was improved. Increasing the number of holes reduced the jet momentum of sealing flow, which led to an increase in the scale of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability vortex structure in the wheel-space, intensified the depth of gas ingestion and also reduced the sealing efficiency, which, however, was higher than that of the rim seal without holes.
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Key words:
- turbine /
- rim seal /
- gas ingestion /
- sealing effectiveness /
- unsteady flow /
- detailed design
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图 1 1.5级涡轮轮缘封严实验台实物图[44]
1 Mainstream air supply system; 2 Main experimental section;3 Static pressure and CO2 concentration probes;4 Probes lead integration hole; 5 Exhaust pipe;6 Four-quadrant rectifier; 7 Secondary flow and CO2 supply piping; 8 Lubricating oil system; 9 Data collection and processing terminal.
Figure 1. Photo of 1.5-stage turbine rim seal test rig components[44]
表 1 计算工况的边界条件
Table 1. Boundary condition of computation cases
参数 数值 主流进口总压/kPa 160 主流进口总温/K 328.15 封严气流量/(kg/s) 0.0172 次流进口静温/K 298.15 转速/(r/min) 3000 主流出口静压/Pa 101325 封严气流量分配比例 1∶1, 2∶1, 3∶1 表 2 网格无关性验证
Table 2. Grid-independent verification
参数 网格 稀疏 中等 加密 主流域网格数量/106 0.65 1.2 1.94 供气孔和盘腔域
网格数量/1061.51 3.63 5.74 总网格数量/106 2.16 4.83 7.68 封严效率 0.663 0.618 0.615 -
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