Aircraft engines ingest airborne particulate matter, such as sand, dirt, and volcanic ash, into their core. The ingested particulate is transported by the secondary flow circuits via compressor bleeds to the high pressure turbine and may deposit resulting in turbine fouling and loss of cooling effectiveness. Prior publications focused on particulate deposition and sand erosion patterns in a single stage of a compressor or turbine. The current work addresses the migration of ingested particulate through the high pressure compressor and bleed systems. This paper describes a 3D CFD methodology for tracking particles along a multi-stage axial compressor and presents particulate ingestion analysis for a high pressure compressor section. The commercial CFD multi-phase solver ANSYS CFX® has been used for flow and particulate simulations. Particle diameters of 20, 40, and 60 microns are analyzed. Particle trajectories and radial particulate profiles are compared for these particle diameters. The analysis demonstrates how the compressor centrifuges the particles radially towards the compressor case as they travel through the compressor; the larger diameter particles being more significantly affected. Non-spherical particles experience higher drag as compared to spherical particles and hence a qualitative comparison between spherical and non-spherical particles is shown.
Numerical Simulation of Particulates in Multi-stage Axial Compressors
2016
Article (Journal)
English
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