To reveal the anti-swirl performance of the swirl brake on improving the seal rotordynamic performance and enhancing rotor stability in turbomachinery
the effects of swirl brakes on the transient flow excitation characteristics and rotordynamic coefficients of a hole-pattern seal are numerically investigated. With computational fluid dynamics(CFD)method based on the multi-frequency elliptical orbit rotor whirling model and mesh deformation technique
the rotordynamic coefficients
transient fluid response forces and flow pattern of the hole-pattern seal are solved and analyzed for two types of swirl brakes at inlet preswirl ratios of 0 and 0.6. The predicted rotordynamic coefficients are compared with the experiment data. The numerical results show that the present transient numerical method enables to accurately predict the frequency-dependent rotordynamic coefficients of hole-pattern seal. Inlet preswirl significantly decreases effective damping in the hole-pattern seal and increases in the crossover frequency of the effective damping term
which usually induces rotor instability vibration. The swirl brake is very useful to eliminate rotor instability vibration because it can obviously reduce the cross-coupling stiffness and the crossover frequency
and increase the hole-pattern seal effective stiffness and effective damping by reducing the inlet preswirl velocity.
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