The Use of Air Injection Nozzles for the Forced Excitation of Axial Compressor Blades

摘要

Turbomachines are exposed to many factors which may cause failure of its components. One of these, high cycle fatigue, can be caused by blade flutter. This paper evaluates the use of an air injection nozzle as a means of exciting vibrations on the first stage rotor blades of a rotating axial compressor. Unsteady simulations of the excitation velocity perturbations were performed on the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software, Numeca FINE/Turbo. Experimental testing on a three-stage, low Mach number axial flow compressor provided data that was used to implement boundary conditions and to verify certain aspects of the unsteady simulation results.