Roughness Investigations on In-Service High-Pressure Compressor Blades—Part II: Roughness Parameterization and Computational Fluid Dynamics-Based Modeling of Its Impact on Turbulent Flows

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Abstract

The two-part publication deals with roughness investigations on in-service high-pressure compressor (HPC) blades, both in terms of measurements and simulations. In this paper (Part II), first, stripe measurements of surface roughness coming from the suction side of the blades are conducted, using a highly accurate Alicona measuring device (see Part I for details of the measurement approach). Then, these roughness distributions are used to construct the walls of zero-pressure-gradient, fully turbulent channel flow simulations. Body-fitted unstructured grids of up to 80 M nodes are generated, on which wall-resolved large eddy simulations (LES) as well as Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) simulations with the k–ω shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model are performed. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) setup is first validated on a smooth channel reference case against LES and direct numerical simulations (DNS) data from the relevant literature. In addition, the impact of Reynolds number on several rough channel flow simulations is explored, using two different setups at Reτ = 540 and Reτ = 880. Finally, after an identification of the most important roughness parameters (given the relatively limited database at hand), a new roughness function model is proposed, which would allow the prediction of the flow over a rough surface without the need of geometrically resolving the roughness scales.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number081002
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of turbomachinery
Volume147
Issue number8
Early online date13 Jan 2025
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

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unpaywall 10.1115/1.4065681
Scopus 85218153089

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  • computational fluid dynamics (CFD), surface roughness, turbulent channel flow