Very high bypass ratio turbofans with large fan tip diameter are an effective way of improving the propulsive efficiency of civil aero-engines. Such engines, however, require larger and heavier nacelles, which partially offset any gains in specific fuel consumptions. This drawback can be mitigated by adopting thinner walls for the nacelle and by shortening the intake section. This binds the success of very high bypass ratio technologies to the problem of designing an intake with thin lips and short diffuser section, which is well matched to a low speed fan. Consequently, the prediction of the mutual influence between the fan and the intake flow represents a crucial step in the design process. Considerable effort has been devoted in recent years to the study of models for the effects of the fan on the lip stall characteristics and the operability of the whole installation. The study of such models is motivated by the wish to avoid the costs incurred by full, three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) computations. The present contribution documents a fan model for fan–intake computations based on the solution of the double linearization problem for unsteady, transonic flow past a cascade of aerofoils with finite mean load. The computation of the flow in the intake is reduced to a steady problem, whereas the computation of the flow in the fan is reduced to one steady problem and a set of solutions of the linearized model in the frequency domain. The nature of the approximations introduced in the fan representation is such that numerical solutions can be computed inexpensively, while the main feature of the flow in the fan passage, namely the shock system and an approximation of the unsteady flow encountered by the fan are retained. The model is applied to a well-documented test case and compares favorably with much more expensive 3D, time-domain computations.
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Fan Similarity Model for the Fan–Intake Interaction Problem
Mauro Carnevale,
Mauro Carnevale
Department of Engineering Science,
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: mauro.carnevale@eng.ox.ac.uk
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: mauro.carnevale@eng.ox.ac.uk
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Feng Wang,
Feng Wang
Department of Engineering Science,
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: feng.wang@eng.ox.ac.uk
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: feng.wang@eng.ox.ac.uk
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Luca di Mare
Luca di Mare
Department of Engineering Science,
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: luca.dimare@eng.ox.ac.uk
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: luca.dimare@eng.ox.ac.uk
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Mauro Carnevale
Department of Engineering Science,
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: mauro.carnevale@eng.ox.ac.uk
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: mauro.carnevale@eng.ox.ac.uk
Feng Wang
Department of Engineering Science,
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: feng.wang@eng.ox.ac.uk
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: feng.wang@eng.ox.ac.uk
Anthony B. Parry
Jeffrey S. Green
Luca di Mare
Department of Engineering Science,
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: luca.dimare@eng.ox.ac.uk
Osney Thermo-Fluids Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX2 0ES, UK
e-mail: luca.dimare@eng.ox.ac.uk
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Contributed by the Aircraft Engine Committee of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING FOR GAS TURBINES AND POWER. Manuscript received July 11, 2017; final manuscript received August 23, 2017; published online December 19, 2017. Editor: David Wisler.
J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. May 2018, 140(5): 051202 (9 pages)
Published Online: December 19, 2017
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Received:
July 11, 2017
Revised:
August 23, 2017
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Carnevale, M., Wang, F., Parry, A. B., Green, J. S., and di Mare, L. (December 19, 2017). "Fan Similarity Model for the Fan–Intake Interaction Problem." ASME. J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. May 2018; 140(5): 051202. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4038247
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