Transition Modeling Effects on the Simulation of a Stator Cascade With Active Flow Control

An investigation of a stator cascade is undertaken by means of steady 3D RANS simulations, the focus of which is on two computational setups. The first takes transition effects into account using a correlation-based transition model as suggested by Abu-Ghannam and Shaw, while the second is considered to be fully turbulent. In a first step the base flow is validated by experimental measurements, followed by configurations employing active flow control by means of steady jets with varying mass flow. By investigating the differences arising due to the varying level of modeling complexity the necessity of using a transition model can be illustrated.Copyright © 2008 by ASME