Numerical Study of Unsteady Pulsed Suction through Endwall Bleed Holes in a Highly Loaded Compressor Cascade

Unsteady pulsed suction (UPS) was applied as an unsteady flow control (UFC) technique in a certain highly loaded compressor cascade to control the flow separations. Only two bleed holes symmetrically mounted on the endwalls (one on the upper endwall and another on the lower endwall) were set up to achieve steady constant suction (SCS) and UPS. The improvements in aerodynamic performance by SCS and UPS under different time-averaged suction flow rates are firstly investigated and compared. The related unsteady aerodynamic parameters of UPS such as excitation frequency, excitation location, pitch angle, and skew angle are discussed and analyzed in detail. The results show that UPS can provide a better flow control effect than SCS with the same time-averaged dimensionless suction flow rate in the control of flow separation. The aerodynamic performance of compressor cascades can be significantly enhanced by UPS when unsteady aerodynamic parameters are in their optimum ranges. Based on the optimum parameters for UPS, the total pressure loss coefficient is reduced by 19 % only with the time-averaged dimensionless suction flow rate ms =0.4 %.

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