Coupled Fluid-Structure Simulation for Turbomachinery Blade Rows

A numerical method for the computation of aeroelasticity is presented. Although the emphasis here is on turbomachinery, the method is applicable to a wide variety of problems. A flow solver is coupled to a structural solver by use of a fluid-structure interface method. The integration of the three-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations is performed in the time domain, simultaneously to the integration of a modal three-dimensional structural model. The flow solution is accelerated by using a multigrid method and a parallel multiblock approach. Fluid-structure coupling is achieved by subiteration. The code is formulated to allow application to general, three-dimensional configurations with multiple independent structures. The capability of the code to handle rotating blade rows is demonstrated by an application to a transonic fan.

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