Improving the performance of high speed axial compressors through low speed model compressor testing has proved to be economical and effective (Wisler, 1984). The key to this technique is to design low speed blade profiles which are aerodynamically similar to their high speed counterparts. The conventional aerodynamic similarity transformation involves the small disturbance potential flow assumption therefore its application is severely limited and generally not used in practical design. In this paper, a set of higher order transformation rules are presented which can accommodate large disturbances at transonic speed and are therefore applicable to similar transformations between the high speed HP compressor and its low speed model. Local linearization is used in the non–linear equations and the transformation is obtained in an iterative process. The transformation gives the global blading parameters such as camber, incidence and solidity as well as the blade profile. Both numerical and experimental validations of the transformation show that the non–linear similarity transformations do retain satisfactory accuracy for highly loaded blades up to low transonic speeds. Further improvement can be made by only slightly modifing profiles numerically without altering the global similarity parameters.
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ASME 1991 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition
June 3–6, 1991
Orlando, Florida, USA
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- International Gas Turbine Institute
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978-0-7918-7898-9
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Similarity Transformations for Compressor Blading
N. G. Zhu,
N. G. Zhu
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
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L. Xu,
L. Xu
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
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M. Z. Chen
M. Z. Chen
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
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N. G. Zhu
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
L. Xu
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
M. Z. Chen
Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China
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91-GT-123, V001T01A048; 8 pages
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March 10, 2015
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Zhu, NG, Xu, L, & Chen, MZ. "Similarity Transformations for Compressor Blading." Proceedings of the ASME 1991 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. Volume 1: Turbomachinery. Orlando, Florida, USA. June 3–6, 1991. V001T01A048. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/91-GT-123
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