Abstract
To ensure safe operation, gaps in a screw machine are essential. Some are relatively easy to adjust, like front and housing gaps, while it is more difficult, if they depend directly on the selected rotor profile shape, such as the inter-lobe clearance and the blowhole. Consideration of mass flow rates through those clearances is crucial to predict operation conditions or design screw machines. When using chamber model simulations, it is common to calculate idealized, theoretical mass flow rates and to combine them with a flow coefficient which represents the effect of e.g. friction losses. This paper deals with the flow coefficient of the blowhole, which is formed by the two rotors and the housing cusp. Therefore, a set of dimensionless numbers is used, including physical and geometrical influences on the flow coefficient. The real mass flow rate of an ideal gas (e.g. air) through the blowhole is calculated by CFD-simulations. The dimensionless numbers are systematically varied to identify their specific influences on the gained mass flow rates.
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