Combined Flow Control of Positively Bowed Blade and Vortex Generator Jet on a Compressor Cascade

Abstract

Abstract A combined flow control method based on positively bowed blade and endwall vortex generator jet (VGJ) was performed to a compressor cascade under three kinds of inlet conditions. The results show that the endwall VGJ can further decrease the total losses in positively bowed cascades. At 0° incidence with zero inlet boundary layer, the separation type in the positively bowed blade is open, with the VGJ, the loss reduction is 2.7 %. As the inlet boundary layer thickens at 0° incidence, the separation region increases with the separation type keeping unchanged, the loss reduction increasing to 11.73 %. As the incidence rises to +7° with zero inlet boundary layer, the separation type converts into closed and the flow separation is the severest in the three cases, with the VGJ, however, the loss reduction is just 7.4 %, which means that the control effect of endwall VGJ not only depends on the size of separation region but also relies on the type of separation mode. If the separation type is open, as the size of separation region expands, the control effectiveness of endwall VGJ increases; if the separation type converts into closed with the further aggravation of flow field, that control effect will decrease.