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The effects induced by the presence of incoming wakes on the boundary layer developing over a high-lift low-pressure turbine profile have been investigated in a linear cascade at mid-span. The tested Reynolds number is 70000, typical of the cruise operating condition. The results of the investigations performed under steady and unsteady inflow conditions are analyzed. The unsteady investigations have been performed at the reduced frequency of f +=0.62, representative of the real engine operating condition.
Profile aerodynamic loadings as well as boundary layer velocity profiles have been measured to survey the separation and transition processes. Spectral analysis has been also performed to better understand the phenomena associated with the transition process under steady inflow.
For the unsteady case, a phase-locked ensemble averaging technique has been employed to reconstruct the time-resolved boundary layer velocity distributions from the hot-wire instantaneous signal output.
The ensemble-averaging technique allowed a detailed analysis of the effects induced by incoming wakes-boundary layer interaction in separation suppression. Time-resolved results are presented in terms of mean velocity and unresolved unsteadiness time-space plots.
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Satta, F., Simoni, D., Ubaldi, M. et al. Experimental investigation of separation and transition processes on a high-lift low-pressure turbine profile under steady and unsteady inflow at low Reynolds number. J. Therm. Sci. 19, 26–33 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-010-0026-4
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