Two-phase flow CFD simulations are conducted to investigate the performance characteristics of an axial flow compressor operating under an excessive amount of water intrusion exposed to a rainy atmosphere. In order to obtain a certain compressor behavior under the water film irregularities, the blade surfaces are divided into a small number of regions depending on the film thickness. In addition, to examine the droplets interaction with rotating blades and splashing process, a self-compiled FORTRAN code has been used. The results showed that uneven roughening of blade surfaces is the effective technique to identify the deterioration in performance with irregular wall film thickness. The overall adiabatic efficiency and pressure ratio are decreased by 6% and 0.88 at a 5% water injection rate using an irregular rough wall model. Moreover, the increased wall film has adversely influenced the internal flow mechanism, which resulted the increase of passage shock intensity, entropy level within the main flow zone as well as the blade surface temperature.
This paper presents numerical simulations of the effects of water ingestion in the axial flow compressor. A self-compiled droplet-wall interaction model is used to study the impingement of the droplets and the film fragmenting process on the surfaces of the compressor blades, which also included the splashing effects. The blade profile has been divided into small regions to effectively apply the rough wall model to capture the film-related flow losses, which has shown flow characteristics with better accuracy. The formation of water film, its shedding, the size, and the movement of droplets after film peeling have been investigated using unsteady simulations at different time intervals. The increased loss of characteristics, shortening of the operating range, and change of flow velocity angle were observed with increasing water content. Moreover, the current research work shown that an increase in the amount of water has severe aerodynamic effects that caused the shock waves to move an upstream location with an increase in intensity. A higher blockage is generated in the tip section flow as the amount of the water increased. Tip losses were very dominant as water injection rate increased, resulting an additional energy loss and performance degradation.
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