The aim of this paper is to introduce design modifications which can be made to improve the flutter stability of a fan blade. A rig fan blade, which suffered from flutter in the part-speed range and for which good quality measured data in terms of steady flow and flutter boundary is available, is used for this purpose. The work is carried out numerically using the aeroelasticity code AU3D. Two different approaches are explored; aerodynamic modifications and aero-acoustic modifications. In the first approach, the blade is stabilized by altering the radial distribution of the stagger angle based on the steady flow on the blade. The re-staggering patterns used in this work are therefore particular to the fan blade under investigation. Moreover, the modifications made to the blade are very simple and crude and more sophisticated methods and/or an optimization approach could be used to achieve the above objectives with a more viable final design. This paper, however, clearly demonstrates how modifying the steady blade aerodynamics can prevent flutter. In the second approach, flutter is removed by drawing bleed air from the casing above the tip of the blade. Only a small amount of bleed (0.2% of the total inlet flow) is extracted such that the effect on the operating point of the fan is small. The purpose of the bleed is merely to attenuate the pressure wave which propagates from the trailing edge to the leading edge of the blade. The results show that extracting bleed over the tip of the fan blade can improve the flutter margin of the fan significantly.
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ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition
June 11–15, 2018
Oslo, Norway
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- International Gas Turbine Institute
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Sina Stapelfeldt,
Sina Stapelfeldt
Imperial College London, London, UK
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Mehdi Vahdati
Mehdi Vahdati
Imperial College London, London, UK
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Sina Stapelfeldt
Imperial College London, London, UK
Mehdi Vahdati
Imperial College London, London, UK
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GT2018-76889, V07CT36A021; 11 pages
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August 30, 2018
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Stapelfeldt, S, & Vahdati, M. "Improving the Flutter Margin of an Unstable Fan Blade." Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2018: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 7C: Structures and Dynamics. Oslo, Norway. June 11–15, 2018. V07CT36A021. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2018-76889
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