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Lecture 1
Axial Fans:
Aerodynamic Design
Th. Carolus
UNIVERSITT SIEGEN
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Rotor diameter:
Hub diameter:
Radial extension of BE:
Number of blades:
Da = 2ra
Di = 2ri
r
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Chord length:
Circumferential spacing
Blade angle at leading edge (LE)
Blade angle at leading edge (LE)
Actual:
3D
unsteady
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l
t
s1
s2
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Ideal:
1D
steady
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G
u
G
w
stationary (absolute)
frame of reference
rotating frame
of reference
G
u = velocity of rotating system (relative system)
G
w = velocity of a particle in relative system
Oberserver in the absolute frame of reference sees absolute
particle velocity
G G G
c = u +w
(1-1)
Velocity triangle
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G
axial component cz
G
circumferential (= tangential) component cu
G
radial component cr
G G G
G
c = cz + cu + cr
(1-2)
G
G
G
In addition useful: Meridional component: cm = cz + cr
(1-3)
in z- direction
in - dircetion
in r- direction
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control
volume
Fu
Mshaft
r
Fu
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( r c ) +
G G
( r c )(c n )dA = M
t
V
shaft
external
torques
angular momentum
unsteady term
(1-4)
= cm A = cm 2 r
m
(1-5)
= Mshaft
Note:
Incremental tangential force is
Fu =
cu 2 m
(1-6)
Fu
change of momentum
from entrance to exit
of blade channel
PBE = Mshaft
(1-7)
and
u = r
(1-8)
PBE
= u2cu 2
m
SEGNERs
waterwheel
analyzed by
L. EULER
(1-9a)
or, if cu1 0
Y = u2cu 2 u1cu1
EULER equation of
turbomachinery (1754)
(1-9b)
LEONHARD EULER
1707 - 1783
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(1-6)
= cm A = c m t r
m
yields
CV
Fu = cu 2 cmt r
(1-10)
w 2
l r
2
2
w
D = cD l r
2
L = cL
D L sin
(1-11)
and
F L
Fu = sin ( ) F
Fu = sin ( ) cL
w 2
l r
2
(1-12)
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w , ????
(1-13)
cL
l
2cu 2cm
=
t w sin ( )
t=
2 r
z
(1-14)
the solidity
lz
2 r
from selected
airfoil
= f(velocity triangles, cL , cD )
(1-15)
(1-16)
aerodynamic
design point
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Pressure distribution
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Performance Curves
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Design
CFD
0.5
Experiment fac
fa, fa [-]
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0.3
Design
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Experiment fa
0.1
CFD
0
0.05
0.1
0.15
[-]
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0.25
0.3
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Prototyping
CNC-Milling Machine
Full scale
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