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Since the transition from rotating stall to surge in a transonic compressor at high speed is very quick, quite often there is no time to take measures to prevent the surge. Therefore, it is desired to find any rotating stall precursors, of which the occurrence can offer sufficient time for stall or surge prevention. In this study, a series of unsteady flow analyses were performed on a transonic compressor under operating conditions before rotating stall with unsteady results scrutinized to find rotating stall precursors. Particular attention is paid to the spatial modes and time modes of static pressure near the casing and around the blade leading and trailing edges. The results show that the characteristics of the precursor in both spatial and time domains can be used as rotating stall warnings.
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The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51976172, National Science and Technology Major Project (2017-II-0009-0023), and China’s 111 project under Grant No. B17037.
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Cao, D., Yuan, C., Wang, D. et al. Transition from Unsteady Flow Inception to Rotating Stall and Surge in a Transonic Compressor. J. Therm. Sci. 31, 120–129 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-022-1551-7
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