Abstract
The paper is a study of the noise reduction effects of the stator lean angle. Firstly, a numerical study has been carried out to investigate the unsteady characteristics of the flow induced by the rotor-stator interaction. To obtain the rotor‟s wake, the distribution of the RMS pressure and the pressure disturbance coefficient, the compressor with an adjustable stator lean angle has been numerically studied. Then the compressor was experimentally tested at 11 different lean angles to obtain the free field noise spectra. Both the unsteady flow property and noise characteristics are discussed on the basis of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) results. The results indicate that (1) the pressure fluctuation of stator is the main source of the interaction noise; (2) the phase of rotor‟s wake can be tuned by the lean angle of the stator; (3) the distribution of the first harmonic of tone noise decides the distribution of total Sound Pressure level (SPL); and (4) stator with positive lean angle has better noise reduction than negative one and the lean angle should exceed 10° for better noise reduction.
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