Abstract

Abstract Carefully designing blade geometric parameters is necessary as they determine the aerodynamic performance of a rotor. However, manufacturing inaccuracies cause the blade geometric parameters to deviate randomly from the ideal design. Therefore, it is essential to quantify uncertainty and analyse the sensitivity of the blade geometric deviations on the compressor performance. This work considers a subsonic compressor rotor stage and examines samples with different geometry features using three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations. A method to combine Halton sequence and non-intrusive polynomial chaos is adopted to perform the uncertainty quantitative (UQ) analysis. The Sobol’ index and Spearman correlation coefficient help analyse the sensitivity and correlation between the compressor performance and blade geometric deviations, respectively. The results show that the fluctuation amplitude of the compressor performance decreases for lower mass flow rates, and the sensitivity of the compressor performance to the blade geometrical parameters varies with the working conditions. The effects of various blade geometric deviations on the compressor performance are independent and linearly superimposed, and the combined effects of different geometric deviations on the compressor performance are small.

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