Use of a residual distribution Euler solver to study the occurrence of transonic flow in Wells turbine rotor blades

Abstract The aim of the present study is to investigate the occurrence of transonic flow in several cascade geometries and blade sections that have been considered in the design of Wells turbine rotor blades. The calculations were performed using an implicit Euler solver for two-dimensional flow. The numerical method uses a multi-dimensional upwind matrix residual distribution scheme formulated on a new symmetrized form of the Euler equations, both in time and in space, that decouples the entropy and the enthalpy equations. Second-order accurate steady-state solutions where obtained using a compact three-point stencil. The results show that unwanted transonic flow may occur in the turbine rotor at relatively low mean-flow Mach numbers.

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