Counter-Rotating Open Rotors performance evaluation

Counter-Rotating Open Rotors

Performance for Contra-Rotating Open Rotors

Parameters

  • base: Base

    The base must contain:

    • the axial forces (‘flux_rou’ and ‘torque_rou’)

    • two zones, ‘front’ and ‘rear’, to separate the contribution from each rotor

    • ‘nb_blade’ as an Base.attrs

    • ‘n’ the rotation frequency as an Base.attrs

    • ‘D’ the rotor diameter as an Base.attrs.

  • rho_inf: float

    Infinite density.

  • v_inf: float

    Infinite velocity.

  • duplication: bool, default= True

    Duplication (rotation) of the forces. If not, for each row, the coefficients represent the forces, acting on a single blade, multiplied by the number of blades.

Main functions

class antares.treatment.turbomachine.TreatmentCRORPerfo.TreatmentCRORPerfo
execute()

Compute the similarity coefficients (forces) for a CROR. It is assumed that the forces come from a single canal computation (periodic or chorochronic when using HB/TSM approach). The forces are then duplicated by the number of blades.

Four coefficients are computed: the traction defined as

\(\displaystyle C_t = |\frac{flux\_rou}{rho\_inf \cdot n^2 \cdot D^4}|\),

the power coefficient defined as

\(\displaystyle C_p = |\frac{2 \pi \cdot torque\_rou}{rho\_inf \cdot n^2 \cdot D^5}|\) (note the simplification of the rotation frequency on the expression of the power coefficient),

the propulsive efficiency computed from the traction and the power coefficients

\(\displaystyle \eta = J \frac{C_t}{C_p}\), where \(J\) is the advance ratio defined as \(\displaystyle J = |\frac{v\_inf}{n \cdot D}|\) (note that this widely used formulation for propeller might be reconsidered in presence of a second propeller. Indeed, the second rotor “doesn’t see” the speed \(v\_inf\)),

and the figure of merit

\(\displaystyle FM = \sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi}}\frac{C_t^{3/2}}{C_p}\)

These formulae are computed rotor per rotor. The global performance is evaluated as follow:

\(\displaystyle C_t^{global} = C_t^{front} + C_t^{rear}\),

\(\displaystyle C_p^{global} = C_p^{front} + C_p^{rear}\),

\(\displaystyle \eta^{global} = \frac{J^{front} \cdot C_t^{front} + J^{rear} \cdot C_t^{rear}}{C_p^{global}}\)

\(\displaystyle FM^{global} = \sqrt{\frac{2}{\pi}}\frac{(C_t^{global})^{3/2}}{C_p^{global}}\)

Returns:

the input base with the forces, a new zone ‘global’, and as many instants as the input base has. If the input base comes from a HB/TSM computation, the mean, and the harmonics are also computed. Note that the amplitude of the harmonics are given divided by the mean value.