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ZHANG Jing-hui, MA Hong-wei. Numerical simulation of effects of contoured slot seal configuration on turbine performance[J]. Journal of Aerospace Power, 2015, 30(4): 865-874. doi: 10.13224/j.cnki.jasp.2015.04.013
Citation: ZHANG Jing-hui, MA Hong-wei. Numerical simulation of effects of contoured slot seal configuration on turbine performance[J]. Journal of Aerospace Power, 2015, 30(4): 865-874. doi: 10.13224/j.cnki.jasp.2015.04.013

Numerical simulation of effects of contoured slot seal configuration on turbine performance

doi: 10.13224/j.cnki.jasp.2015.04.013
  • Received Date: 2013-11-11
  • Publish Date: 2015-04-28
  • Effects of rim seal flow through uniform slot seal and contoured slot seal configurations on the turbine performance were investigated numerically. The results show that the gas ingress and egress structures are affected by stator disc, rotor disc and the tangential velocity in mainstream, and the rotating speed is less than that of rotor disc with the same direction. As a result, the flow patterns of rotor are changed, which strengthened the pressure side horseshoe vortex, thereby resulting in large changes of flow field of rotor exit. The interaction of seal flow and upstream vane weak induces the entropy rise in the rotor passages, leading to decrease of the turbine efficiency. Compared with uniform slot seal configuration, the contoured slot seal configuration collapses the big ingress and egress structures into smaller ones, and then has less negative effects on the turbine performance. The turbine efficiency is improved by 0.9%. The results prove that the contoured slot seal configuration has better turbine performance as well as better seal effectiveness.

     

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