3D CFD Simulation of Phase Resonance in a Pump Turbine with an Acoustic Model

In order to understand the complex nature of the system dynamic phenomena, such as the strong vibration and noise caused by blade passage in the pump turbine, a state-of-the-art three-dimensional (3D) compressible transient simulation would be desirable to study the problem in depth. This study inve...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2021-11, Vol.14 (22), p.7539
Main Authors: Fang, Yujian, Huang, Ping, Jin, Shibing, Liu, Demin, Zhang, Jinfeng, Yuan, Shouqi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic resonance
Acoustics
Boundary conditions
CFD simulation
Compressibility
compressible flow
Elastic waves
Flow simulation
full load
Hydraulics
Investigations
Noise
phase resonance
Pressure
Pressure distribution
pump turbine
Pump turbines
Resonance
Rotor stator interactions
Simulation
Sound
Stators
Systems design
Three dimensional flow
Turbines
Turbulence models
Vibration
wave propagation
Wave reflection
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Summary:In order to understand the complex nature of the system dynamic phenomena, such as the strong vibration and noise caused by blade passage in the pump turbine, a state-of-the-art three-dimensional (3D) compressible transient simulation would be desirable to study the problem in depth. This study investigated the phase resonance (PR) that occurred during a full-load operation in the turbine mode of a pump turbine on a prototype scale. As a first step, the wave reflection at the boundaries, and the influence of the timestep and sound speeds on the behavior of traveling pressure waves inside a spiral casing, were studied. It was found that nonreflective boundary conditions and an appropriately small timestep are critical to capturing the wave reflection and superposition process inside a spiral casing; a certain kind of direct PR risk was detected in its system design. The detected direct PR differed from the well-known PR with two features: firstly, it was almost independent of the sound speeds, and secondly, the pressure distribution over the spiral circumference varied among the amplitudes. The latter feature was caused by pressure waves at every stator channel induced by a rotor stator interaction (RSI). The 3D flow simulation with an acoustic model, which couples the RSI and PR phenomena, would predict better results for understanding the problem than the simplified one-dimensional (1D) method.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en14227539