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Lifting multi-blade flows with interaction

Bowles, RGA; Smith, FT; (2000) Lifting multi-blade flows with interaction. J FLUID MECH , 415 203 - 226. 10.1017/S0022112000008673. Green open access

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Abstract

Planar flow past multiple successive blades and wakes is studied for nearly aligned configurations with normal non-symmetry inducing lift. The typical blade lies relatively near the centreline of the oncoming wake from the preceding blade. The central motion over a wide parameter range is in condensed periodic boundary layers and wakes with fixed displacement, buried within surrounding incident shear flow. This is accompanied, however, by streamwise jumps in the pressure, velocity and mass flux, across the leading edge of each blade, a new and surprising feature which is supported by the combination of incident shears and a solid surface and which is related to the normal flow through the multi-blade system. The leading-edge jumps are required in order to satisfy the equi-pressure condition at the trailing edge. Computational results include separating flows and show the lift and drag, and these are followed by a short-blade analysis which captures the main flow properties explicitly. The results agree qualitatively with experiments and direct simulations for rotor blade flows. The jump feature also extends for example to a single blade immersed in the relatively large wake of an upstream blade.

Type: Article
Title: Lifting multi-blade flows with interaction
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112000008673
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112000008673
Language: English
Additional information: © 2000 Cambridge University Press
Keywords: PROPELLER, NOISE
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/129923
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