简介:Thispaperisconcernedwithexperimentalandnumericalresearchon3DflowpastprismaticturbinecascadeSE1050(knowninQNETnetworkasopentestcaseSE1050).Theprimarygoalwastoassesstheinfluenceoftheinletvelocityprofileontheflowstructuresintheinterbladechannelandontheflowfieldparametersatthecascadeexitandtocomparethesefindingstoresultsofnumericalsimulations.Investigationsof3Dflowpastthecascadewithnon-uniforminletvelocityprofilewerecarriedoutbothexperimentallyandnumericallyatsubsonic(M2is=0.8)andattransonic(M2is=1.2)regimeatdesignangleofincidence.Experimentaldatawasobtainedusingatraversingdevicewithafive-holeconicalprobe.Numerically,the3DflowwassimulatedbyopensourcecodeOpenFOAMandin-housecode.AnalysesofexperimentaldataandCFDsimulationshaverevealedthedevelopmentofdistinctivevortexstructuresresultingfromnon-uniforminletvelocityprofile.Originofthesestructuresresultsinincreasedlossofkineticenergyandspanwiseshiftofkineticenergylosscoefficientdistribution.Differencesfoundbetweenthesubsonicandthetransoniccaseconfirmearlierfindingsavailableintheliterature.ResultsofCFDandexperimentsagreereasonablywell.