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Numerical investigations of the Darmstadt transonic single stage compressor (DTC), in the Rotor1-Stator1 configuration, aimed at advancing the understanding of the effect of different rotor tip gaps and transition modelling on the blade surfaces are presented. Steady three dimensional Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) simulations were performed to obtain the flow fields for the different configurations at different operating conditions using the RANS-Solver TRACE. The stage geometry and the multi-block structured grid were generated by G3DMESH and a grid sensitivity analysis was conducted. For the clearance gap region, a fully gridded special H-grid was chosen. Comparisons were made between the flow characteristic at design speed, representative for a transonic flow regime, and at 65% speed, representative for a subsonic flow regime. The computations were used to analyse the flow phenomena through the tip clearance region for the different configurations and their impact on the performance of the compressor stage.
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The Investigations were conducted as a part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Joint Research Project FOR-1066
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Ciorciari, R., Lesser, A., Blaim, F. et al. Numerical investigation of tip clearance effects in an axial transonic compressor. J. Therm. Sci. 21, 109–119 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-012-0525-6
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