Active flow control has been applied to the suction surface of stator vanes in a low speed axial compressor. Injection from the suction surface has been shown to reduce separation on vanes that were induced to separate by increasing the vane stagger angle by 3° deg. Various configurations were investigated including injector geometry (slots versus holes) and type of injection (steady versus unsteady). Unsteady injection was realized using two different approaches; external actuation through a high frequency valve and embedded actuation using a fluidic device internal to the vane. Using total pressure loss through the vane passage as a metric, reductions in area-averaged loss of 25% were achieved using injected mass flow rates on the order of 1% of compressor throughflow. The development of a tracking control algorithm was also explored for the purpose of closed-loop control. A reliable method of detecting surface separation was implemented using unsteady pressure measurements on the compressor casing near the vane suction surface.

Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Keywords:
flow control, compressors, closed loop systems, stators, compressible flow, aerodynamics, flow separation, pressure measurement
Topics:
Compressors, Flow (Dynamics), Flow control, Pressure, Separation (Technology), Stators, Valves, Suction, Design, Momentum
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