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Introduction Results
Trailing edge loss accounts for more than one third The time-averaged pressure distribution trend of
of total loss in turbine cascade. both trailing edge cases is similar. Moving
0.35
downstream, the pressure decreases gradually
0.3
Sudden jump because a turbine blade is an accelerated channel.
0.25
in loss next to
0.2
Loss
trailing edge 1
0.15
0.1
0.05
0
-0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5
X/Cax
Mass average loss coefficient, Langston et al. [1]
Pressure
Side
Numerical Methods
(Original) Acknowledgements
(Our proposal)
This work is supported by a Grant-in-Aid for 21st
Century COE Frontier of Computational Science.
Trailing edge modification and
(a) Circular (b) Elliptic
grid around the trailing edges
Time-average dimensionless pressure (p/po1) contours
close to the trailing edge
References
[1] Langston, L. H., Nice, M. L., Hooper R. M., 1977, Three-dimensional Flow
Within a Turbine Cascade Passage, ASME J. of Engineering for Power, 99, pp.
The non-uniform pressure distribution along the
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Unsteady calculations were carried out using a circular trailing edge confirms the experimental data
structure locally-developed Navier-Stocks code. [3]. Using an elliptic trailing edge makes the [2] Cicatelli, G. and Sieverding, C. H., 1997, The Effect of Vortex Shedding on
The Unsteady Pressure Distribution Around the Trailing Edge of a Turbine
pressure distribution uniform and increases the Blade, ASME J. of Turbomachinery, 119, pp. 810-819.
Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation (DDES) was
average base pressure by 4.9% from 0.59 (circular [3] Sieverding, C. H., Richard, H., and Desse, J., 2003, Turbine Blade Trailing
used for first time to treat turbulence through a
case) to 0.598 ( elliptic case). Edge Characteristics at High Subsonic Outlet Mach Number, ASME J. of
turbine cascade. Turbomachinery, 125, pp. 298-309.