AERODYNAMIC EXCITATION ANALYSIS OF RADIAL TURBINE BLADES DUE TO UNSTEADY FLOW FROM VANELESS TURBINE HOUSINGS

摘要

Turbocharger turbine blades are subjected to resonant excitation that can lead to High Cycle Fatigue (HCF). In vaneless turbines the excitation primarily stems from asymmetries in the turbine housing such as the volute and the tongue. Given the nature of such asymmetries, the excitation is of a Low Engine Order (LEO) type. The present study deals with the effect of radial turbine housing design on LEO resonant excitation of turbine blades. The study focuses on two geometrical key design parameters of a twin-scroll turbine housing for a radial turbine which is the rotor-tongue distance and the circumferential angle between both tongues. The generalized force approach is used to identify the critical blade surface regions in order to understand the excitation mechanism of each specific design and to assess the differences of design variants with respect to the baseline design. The presented approach is highly practicable, because it is less expensive than full FSI-simulations. This approach is validated on tip timing test data from full-scale experiments. Correlation to test data shows that the presented approach is capable of capturing the relative trends reliably and hence can efficiently be employed in an industrial design process such as to minimize blade vibration amplitudes. It is shown that a reduction of blade vibration amplitudes by a factor of 10 could be achieved.