International audienceAuthor(s): Roger Debuchy IUT de Béthune, Laboratoire de Mécanique de Lille UMR 8107, PRES Université Nord de France, 1230 Rue de l'université BP 819, 62408 Béthune Cedex, France Fadi Abdel Nour and Gérard Bois Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Laboratoire de Mécanique de Lille UMR 8107, PRES Université Nord de France, 8, Boulevard Louis XIV, 59046 Lille Cedex, France In the most part of an enclosed rotor-stator system with separated boundary layers, the flow structure is characterized by a central core rotating as a solid body with a constant core-swirl ratio. This behavior is not always observed in an isolated rotor-stator cavity, i.e., without any centripetal or centrifugal throughflow, opened to the atmosphere at the periphery: Recent works have brought to evidence an increasing level of the core-swirl ratio from the periphery to the axis, as in the case of a rotor-stator with superposed centripetal flow. The present work is based on an asymptotical approach in order to provide a better understanding of this process. Assuming that the boundary layers behave as on a single rotating disk in a stationary fluid on the rotor side, and on a stationary disk in a rotating fluid on the stator side, new analytical relations are obtained for the core-swirl ratio, the static pressure on the stator, and also the total pressure at midheight of the cavity. An experimental study is performed: Detailed measurements provide data for several values of the significant dimensionless parameters: 1.14<=10−6×Re<=1.96, 0.05<=G<=0.10, and 0.07<=104×Ek<=2.65. The analysis of the results shows a good agreement between the theoretical solution and the experimental results. The analytical model can be used to provide a better understanding of the flow features. In addition, radial distributions of both core-swirl ratio, dimensionless static pressure on the stator, as well as dimensionless total pressure at midheight of the cavity, which are of interest to the designers, can be computed with an acceptable accuracy knowing the levels of the preswirl coefficient Kp and the solid body rotation swirl coefficient KB
The flow between a rotor and a stator at high Reynolds number and small Ekman number is divided into three domains, two boundary layers adjacent to the discs separated by a central core. In the present work, a simple theoretical approach provides analytical solutions for the radial distribution of the core swirl ratio valid for a rotor-stator system with a superposed radial inflow rate. At first, the flow in the rotor boundary layer is assumed to behave as expressed by Owen and Rogers (1989) in the case of a turbulent flow on a rotating single disc. On the stator side, a necessary compensation flow rate must take place according to the conservation of mass. It is found that this compensation flow rate cannot be estimated with a good accuracy using the hypotheses of a stationary disc in a rotating fluid by Owen and Rogers (1989). Thus, two innovative weighting functions are tested, leading to new analytical laws relating the core swirl ratioKto the coefficient of flow rateCqrintroduced by Poncet et al. (2005). The adequacy between the theoretical solutions and numerous results of the literature is clearly improved and the discussion allows a better understanding of the flow behavior.
The present study is devoted to the influence of a superposed radial inflow in a rotor-stator cavity with a peripheral opening. The flow regime is turbulent, the two boundary layers being separated by a core region. An original theoretical solution is obtained for the core region, explaining the reason why a weak radial inflow has no major influence near the periphery of the cavity but strongly affects the flow behavior near the axis. The validity of the theory is tested with the help of a new set of experimental data including the radial and tangential mean velocity components, as well as three components of the Reynolds stress tensor measured by hot-wire anemometry. The theoretical results are also in good agreement with numerical results obtained with the Fluent code and experimental data from the literature.
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