Numerical investigations on axial and radial blade rubs in turbo-machinery
© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. In the recent years, the clearance between the rotor blades and stator/casing had been getting smaller and smaller prior improving the aerodynamic efficiency of the turbomachines as demand in the engineering field. Due to the clearance reduction betwe...
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| author | Abdelrhman, Ahmed Sung Tang, E. Leong, M. Al-Qrimli, Haidar Rajamohan, G. |
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| description | © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. In the recent years, the clearance between the rotor blades and stator/casing had been getting smaller and smaller prior improving the aerodynamic efficiency of the turbomachines as demand in the engineering field. Due to the clearance reduction between the blade tip and the rotor casing and between rotor blades and stator blades, axial and radial blade rubbing could be occurred, especially at high speed resulting into complex nonlinear vibrations. The primary aim of this study is to address the blade axial rubbing phenomenon using numerical analysis of rotor system. A comparison between rubbing caused impacts of axial and radial blade rubbing and rubbing forces are also aims of this study. Tow rotor models (rotor-stator and rotor casing models) has been designed and sketched using SOILDSWORKS software. ANSYS software has been used for the simulation and the numerical analysis. The rubbing conditions were simulated at speed range of 1000rpm, 1500rpm and 2000rpm. Analysis results for axial blade rubbing showed the appearance of blade passing frequency and its multiple frequencies (lx, 2x 3x etc.) and these frequencies will more excited with increasing the rotational speed. Also, it has been observed that when the rotating speed increased, the rubbing force and the harmonics frequencies in x, y and z-direction become higher and severe. The comparison study showed that axial blade rub is more dangerous and would generate a higher vibration impacts and higher blade rubbing force than radial blade rub. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-723922018-12-13T09:33:00Z Numerical investigations on axial and radial blade rubs in turbo-machinery Abdelrhman, Ahmed Sung Tang, E. Leong, M. Al-Qrimli, Haidar Rajamohan, G. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. In the recent years, the clearance between the rotor blades and stator/casing had been getting smaller and smaller prior improving the aerodynamic efficiency of the turbomachines as demand in the engineering field. Due to the clearance reduction between the blade tip and the rotor casing and between rotor blades and stator blades, axial and radial blade rubbing could be occurred, especially at high speed resulting into complex nonlinear vibrations. The primary aim of this study is to address the blade axial rubbing phenomenon using numerical analysis of rotor system. A comparison between rubbing caused impacts of axial and radial blade rubbing and rubbing forces are also aims of this study. Tow rotor models (rotor-stator and rotor casing models) has been designed and sketched using SOILDSWORKS software. ANSYS software has been used for the simulation and the numerical analysis. The rubbing conditions were simulated at speed range of 1000rpm, 1500rpm and 2000rpm. Analysis results for axial blade rubbing showed the appearance of blade passing frequency and its multiple frequencies (lx, 2x 3x etc.) and these frequencies will more excited with increasing the rotational speed. Also, it has been observed that when the rotating speed increased, the rubbing force and the harmonics frequencies in x, y and z-direction become higher and severe. The comparison study showed that axial blade rub is more dangerous and would generate a higher vibration impacts and higher blade rubbing force than radial blade rub. 2017 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72392 10.1088/1757-899X/217/1/012015 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Abdelrhman, Ahmed Sung Tang, E. Leong, M. Al-Qrimli, Haidar Rajamohan, G. Numerical investigations on axial and radial blade rubs in turbo-machinery |
| title | Numerical investigations on axial and radial blade rubs in turbo-machinery |
| title_full | Numerical investigations on axial and radial blade rubs in turbo-machinery |
| title_fullStr | Numerical investigations on axial and radial blade rubs in turbo-machinery |
| title_full_unstemmed | Numerical investigations on axial and radial blade rubs in turbo-machinery |
| title_short | Numerical investigations on axial and radial blade rubs in turbo-machinery |
| title_sort | numerical investigations on axial and radial blade rubs in turbo-machinery |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72392 |