Study on a Type of Low-Leakage Brush Seal Porous Media Model

Abstract

Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been employed to calculate the pressure, flow distributions and leakage of brush seal by using Reynolds-Averaged-Navier-Stokes (RANS) method and two-dimensional axisymmetric anisotropic porous medium model. The leakage in brush seal with radial clearance has a marked increase compared with contact brush seal. The leakages of brush seal with different radial clearances have been investigated comparing contact brush seal. A type ofretaining ring structure has been employedto reduce the leakage on radial clearance condition. Also the disturbance effect of retaining ring on bristle pack has been studied.