orclcr
tltc Ii;~r~iio~~~c
'I!'.
I
111.1-cI;)rc tllc first I~;~rliionic nl':ll~y
IIIISIC;I~~~I~~SS
is us11:1IIy s~lllicicnt witl,
rc\pccl to
I
l;c
cfft'ct
of
I~II\IC;I(~II~C\S.
An u~lstca~lilics.;
of
rhc rcl;~tivc 1101v in tllc rurlllcr or impcllcr rcsi~lts also froni
no11
uxisymrnetry
of
rhc
no\v
in
tllc spirill c;tsit~:. i:spcci;~lIy 11ic rcgion nc;lr the tongue of
tile
spiral casing
may
show
10
to 15'% dcv~;~rinn Troni ;tvcr;igc ilow
long
the pcriphcry. Sucli
a
deviation may
disappear
;tt some
working points.
Unfortt~nat~ly
it
c;1111101 disappe;lr within thc wlioli opcr;~tion:il
range
of
a
ti~rbinc. This
unsteadiness
acts
011
the runner bl;tclc as
a
very big wukc.
It
attacks one runncr blade
;IS
a
wholc. Such
n
fluctuating
force may
C;~LI?;C
strorig ovcrstrcss
in
~IIC
bl;idc root scction of
iI
K:lplnn runner ncar the hub
cspecii~lly in
connection
with fiitig~le ~ii~cts uf C'llromium steel blatles. Accortling to thc geometry
of
the bl;lc!t.lcss spi~cc bctv:ccn the wicker ptcs ;lnd thc runncr and due to the
IISLI;II
distribution
the Inorncnt
of
monicntum before thc I-unncr.
any
perturbation
I'rorn thc distributor in
a
Kaplan
turbine acts much stroi~gc~.
ilt
tile o~ltcr p;~rts of
a
blndc.
fIcrc thcse hydrodynamic forccs have
a
largc monicnt arm :\gainst the root section of the blade near
the hub.
A
similar strong vibrating force acting on
a
long lnorncnt am1 exists also in a Francis turbine
~hcn the shroud is oniittccl. Hcrc the runncr hladcs clnmpcd cn thc one sick may be badly
o\.erstrcsscd at thc inner hlade cross scction. Thc eifcc! in a Kaplan turbine is more serious
as
it
opcrntes ubuully
ti
ith
a
semi-spira! casing a5 distributor. This element produces more
deviation
from
the axial syrnrnctrq of the inflow of the runner thxn the usual hpiral casing would do.
Thc
aboi e
procedure
from
hl.
Lotz
is based on cascades of skclztons and
the
assumption of a steady
flow
through thc activc cnscadc. LI~RIIIILITI
[6.31;
6.321
has dcvclopcd
a
rigorous nicthorl by a time step
proccdarc.
th;tt
sciount.; for arbitrarily s!iapcd profiles with unstcacly flow in both the cascades.
This method
h:ts
bccn partly expcrimcntnlly reconfirrncd
by
tcsts of Lahrn and
Ccrstorpli
[6.33;
6.341
bith the aid of quickly responding semi-conductor probes. Tcsts of
Casrorpl~
[6.35]
reveal also the
influence of shock waves on the unsteii.dy bchaviour.
Th;
influencc
of
wakes has bccn recently invcsti_gatctl by L~rhrn
[6.33].
The effects
resulting
from
cascactes upstream and do\vnstream
of
n
considered cascade have been recently trsated
and
t:ieasured
by
D.
Cusrorplt :1nd H~lb~~~~stcirrcr
[(i.36].
The influencc of wakes on an unsteady flow
tllrough casc;ldss in t,indcm arrangement moving rclative
tc
each other has bcen investigated by
Kr!lntnrer
[6.37]
on
the
base
of I-iettl~trrt'~ rigcrous illc~~y. Fa~tclli and Siccai.Oi
[6.38]
have treated the
rcsponsc
of
turbornachinc~ with cascadcs to the oscillations
in
the penstock.
6.5.
Distribution
of
meridional velocity
normal
to
stream face
6.5.1.
Introduction
In
the foregoing section the
fl~w
within axisymmetric stream fzces or flow laminae
beet? invcstisated under the assumption of
a
given flow-linked meridiona! velocity.
mixed flow rotors with a
larper span
in
the vaned par: the problem arises how
t
meridional component of velocity is distributed over the span
b
between the outer
a
inner
shroud
(hub).
For simplification of the problem a practical approach is made by
assurning
a
uni
distribution of the meridional and whirl component
c,,
and
c,
of the absolute flow i
peripheral direction.
To
obtain the influence of vane geometry, the angle
P
between
relative flow and periphery. is
;ljsumed to bc given. This angle depends according
(6.5-
13)
on the given pattern sections and radial sections of the vane, and the geome
cf
an asisymrnetric streamface, also
determined
by that
of
the inner and outer shro
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