Abstract

The flow field and the efficiency of the compressor can be improved and increased by the guide vane in the radial inlet chamber. However, the guide vane generates the wake and results in the rotor–stator interaction, which threatens the safety of the impeller. This paper investigated the guide vane with a self-induced slot (SIS) in a radial inlet, and the self-induced slot was a passive flow control method. Through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation, the radial inlet containing unevenly distributed guide vanes (UGVs) in the hydrogen compressor was studied to clarify the flow phenomenon in the radial inlet and the aerodynamic load on the impellers. The simulation results showed that the self-induced slot did not affect the compressor performance but improved the pure wake style to the weak wake near the shroud region. The aerodynamic load on the impeller leading edge was obtained under different radial inlets through unsteady simulation. The dominant frequency and the pulse amplitude of aerodynamic load were obtained by fast Fourier transforms (FFTs). The SIS model had lower amplitude values at the impeller passing frequency, and the reduction in amplitude was about 18% compared to the UGV model near the impeller shroud region.

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