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Flow Control Under Low-Pressure Turbine Conditions Using Pulsed Jets: Experimental Data ArchiveThis publication is the final report of research performed under an NRA/Cooperative Interagency Agreement, and includes a supplemental CD-ROM with detailed data. It is complemented by NASA/CR-2012-217416 and NASA/CR-2012-217417 which include a Ph.D. Dissertation and an M.S. thesis respectively, performed under this contract. In this study the effects of unsteady wakes and flow control using vortex generator jets (VGJs) were studied experimentally and computationally on the flow over the L1A low pressure turbine (LPT) airfoil. The experimental facility was a six passage linear cascade in a low speed wind tunnel at the U.S. Naval Academy. In parallel, computational work using the commercial code FLUENT (ANSYS, Inc.) was performed at Cleveland State University, using Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (URANS) and Large Eddy Simulations (LES) methods. In the first phase of the work, the baseline flow was documented under steady inflow conditions without flow control. URANS calculations were done using a variety of turbulence models. In the second phase of the work, flow control was added using steady and pulsed vortex generator jets. The VGJs successfully suppressed separation and reduced aerodynamic losses. Pulsed operation was more effective and mass flow requirements are very low. Numerical simulations of the VGJs cases showed that URANS failed to capture the effect of the jets. LES results were generally better. In the third phase, effects of unsteady wakes were studied. Computations with URANS and LES captured the wake effect and generally predicted separation and reattachment to match the experiments. Quantitatively the results were mixed. In the final phase of the study, wakes and VGJs were combined and synchronized using various timing schemes. The timing of the jets with respect to the wakes had some effect, but in general once the disturbance frequency was high enough to control separation, the timing was not very important. This is the supplemental CD-ROM
Document ID
20120016825
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Volino, Ralph J.
(Naval Academy Annapolis, MD, United States)
Ibrahim, Mounir B.
(Cleveland State Univ. Cleveland, OH, United States)
Date Acquired
August 26, 2013
Publication Date
September 1, 2012
Subject Category
Aerodynamics
Report/Patent Number
NASA/CR-2012-217415/SUPPL
E-18086
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 561581.02.08.03.47.02.01
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNC07IA10I
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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