The effects of the inlet recirculation arrangement on inducer stall and the diffuser width on diffuser stall in a high-specific-speed-type centrifugal impeller with inducer were analyzed by numerical simulation and also verified experimentally. It was found that the incipient unstable flow occurs due to a rolling-up vortex flow, resulting from an interaction between the tip leakage flow and the reverse flow accumulated at the pressure side immediately downstream of the inducer tip throat, in which a strong streamwise component of vorticity is included. By forming the inlet recirculation flow, the tip leakage vortex is effectively sucked into the suction ring groove, and the flow incidence is decreased simultaneously. The unstable flow range of the test blower was reduced significantly by about 45% without deteriorating the impeller characteristics by implementing optimally both the ring groove arrangement and the narrowed diffuser width.
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January 2005
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Suppression of Unstable Flow at Small Flow Rates in a Centrifugal Blower by Controlling Tip Leakage Flow and Reverse Flow
Mashiro Ishida, Mem. ASME,
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Mashiro Ishida, Mem. ASME
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
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Taufan Surana,
Taufan Surana
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
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Hironobu Ueki,
Hironobu Ueki
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
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Daisaku Sakaguchi
Daisaku Sakaguchi
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
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Mashiro Ishida, Mem. ASME
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
hiro@net.Nagasaki-u.ac.jp
Taufan Surana
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
Hironobu Ueki
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
Daisaku Sakaguchi
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
Contributed by the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF TURBOMACHINERY. Paper presented at the International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition, Vienna, Austria, June 13–17, 2004, Paper No. 2004-GT-53400. Manuscript received by IGTI, October 1, 2003; final revision, March 1, 2004. IGTI Review Chair: A. J. Strazisar.
J. Turbomach. Jan 2005, 127(1): 76-83 (8 pages)
Published Online: February 9, 2005
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Ishida, M., Surana , T., Ueki , H., and Sakaguchi , D. (February 9, 2005). "Suppression of Unstable Flow at Small Flow Rates in a Centrifugal Blower by Controlling Tip Leakage Flow and Reverse Flow ." ASME. J. Turbomach. January 2005; 127(1): 76–83. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1811092
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