Experimental And Numerical Verification of an Optimization of a Fast Rotating High Performance Radial Compressor Impeller
2017
Outgoing from a well-proven radial compressor design
which has been extensively being tested in the past known as
SRV4 impeller (Krain impeller), an optimization has been performed
using the AutoOpti tool developed at DLR’s Institute of
Propulsion Technology. This tool has shown its capability in several
tasks, mainly for axial compressor and fan design as well
as for turbine design. The optimization package AutoOpti was
applied to the redesign and optimization of a radial compressor
stage with a vaneless diffusor. The numerical results of this
optimization were presented by Voss et al. [1] and by Raitor et
al. [2]. The optimization was performed for the SRV4 compressor
geometry without fillets using a relatively coarse structured
mesh in combination with wall functions. The impeller geometry
deduced by the optimization had to be slightly modified due
to manufacturing constraints. In order to filter out the improvements
of the new so-called SRV5 radial compressor design, two
work packages were conducted: The first one was the manufacturing
of the new impeller and its installation on a test rig to
investigate the complex flow inside the machine. The aim was,
first of all, the evaluation of a classical performance map and
the efficiency chart achieved by the new compressor design. The
efficiencies realized in the performance chart were enhanced by
nearly 1.5 %. A 5 % higher maximum mass flow rate was measured
in agreement with the RANS simulations during the design
process. The second work package comprises the CFD analysis.
The numerical investigations were conducted with the exact
geometries of both, the baseline SRV4 as well as the optimized
SRV5 impeller including the exact fillet geometries. To enhance
the prediction accuracy of pressure ratio and impeller efficiency
the geometries were discretized by high resolution meshes of approximately
5 million cells. For the blade walls as well as for the
hub region the mesh resolution allows a low-Reynolds approach
in order to get high quality results. The comparison of the numerical
predictions and the experimental results shows a very
good agreement and confirms the improvement of the compressor
performance using the optimization tool AutoOpti.
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