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Filip Wasilczuk1, Pawel Flaszynski1, Lukasz Pyclik2
1Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Fiszera 14, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland.
Abstract:
This paper analyses the methods for manufacturing turbine blades, focusing on the possibility of manufacturing slots in the region of the shroud. The reason for this analysis is the new flow control technique that can be used to limit the shroud leakage flow in a turbine-the air curtain. The air curtain uses a bypass slot to connect the upstream cavern of a shroud seal with the tip of a shroud fin. The bypass slot is an essential part of the solution, while at the same time introducing difficulties in the manufacturing process. Additionally, a parametric study on the bypass slot dimensions is performed using numerical simulations. The features of the numerical model and its validation against experimental data are presented. The parametric study includes the inlet and outlet dimensions, as well as the width of the slot. The most effective dimensions are shown, along with a possible explanation as to why they are the most effective. Interestingly, a slot that does not cover the whole span of the fin is more effective than a slot covering the whole span of the fin. This is caused by additional streamwise vortices that are created in the proximity of the bypass slot.
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