Analysis and Application of Chorochronic Periodicity in Turbomachinery Rotor/Stator Interaction Computations

A methodology for predicting the three-dimensional unsteady aerodynamics of the interaction between two turbomachinery blade rows that are in relative angular motion with one another is described. In this case, the kinematics of the blades introduce a chorochronic (space‐time) periodicity. This periodicity is analyzed in detail, and a mathematically straightforward methodology, based on Fourier series in µ (azimuth) and t (time), is presented for treating the interface between the two rows. These results are implemented in a computational method solving the three-dimensional Favre ‐Reynolds-averaged Navier ‐Stokes equations, with a near-wall wall-normalfree Reynolds-stress model. Only one blade passage per blade row is discretized. At the pitchwise boundaries, phase-lagged periodicity is applied using Fourier series in time. Both the pitchwise boundaries time harmonics and the interface chorochronic tµ harmonics are updated using a low-storage moving-averages technique. Computational results are presented and compared with measurements for a 1 1 -stage turbine, where the two stators have the same number of blades enabling the use of chorochronic periodicity. Sample results are also presented for a transonic inlet guide vane/rotor interaction, illustrating the ability of the interface treatment to handle shock waves.

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