Influence of gap detailing on calculated unsteady non-adjacent blade row aero-forcing in a transonic compressor stage

• Resonant or close to resonant forced response excitation of compressor blades limits component life time, and can potentially lead to high cycle fatigue failure if the excitingforces are large and damping is insufficient. When numerically quantifying the forcing function by means of simulations,simplifications are typically made in the analysis to reducecomplexity and computational cost. In this paper we numerically investigate how the blade forcing function is influencedby the rotor tip gap flow and by flow across gaps in the upstream VIGV row. Unsteady simulations are made using a testrig geometry where a forcing crossing with an excitation froma non-adjacent blade row had previously been measured. Theeffects of the gaps on the forcing function for the first torsionmode are presented for both the non-adjacent blade row excitation (changes compared with a case without gaps indicating a 20% reduction) and an adjacent excitation (changes indicating an80% increase in terms of forcing function amplitude comparing with a case without gaps).

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