Abstract
A recent CFD-perturbation model for turbomachinery seal rotordynamics was extended for labyrinth shunt injection with an arbitrarily high pressure gas. A large number of measured cases with labyrinth injection pressure at approximately 13.8 bars (200 psi) were computed and compared with measurements. The drastically reduced (negative) cross-coupled stiffness, which is the primary advantage from the use of shunt injection in gas labyrinth seal applications, was well predicted. The agreement with measurements for k, C, and Ceff was within about 40 percent, 60 percent and 10 percent, respectively. In addition, it was found that moving the injection toward the high pressure end of the seal gives k, C and Ceff values that are rotordynamically only slightly more stabilizing. Further, the radial distributions of the flow perturbation quantities give support to the two-control volume approach for developing bulk-flow models for labyrinth seal rotordynamics.
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