bss~rniing constant pressure aprnss the wake n~~d only
Rr~rrolrls
sl~eilr strcss
in
the
no\,-
dircctiOn,
expressed
by
the
nniuing Icnsth afier
L.
Pr-rrrlcttl
[5.32].
11.
Sc,l:llr./tri~~g
has
dc-
rived
froin the equ;~tion of motion
the
followi~lg distribution
of
velocity in
the
sym-
n,et;ical
wake
within plane
flo~il
(5.41
&ere
x
is
the distance
of
the
cross
section of the
wake
considered
froill
the origin
of
the
taken
in
the flow dircction
of
1,
and Uo.
Contrary to this model the wake past a rotor vanc may show also a secondary flow. This will
hc
,c_c~ected in the following.
An
adoption of thc above \vilkc model instead of the rcal onc at a rotcr
vane requires the clarification of the folloc~ing
fivc
problems:
1)
How docs the width
2b
of the wake depend on the thickncss of the vane's trailing cdge and on
its
boundary laycr thicknesses on
t
hc suction and pressurc faczs, respectively?
11)
LVhat is the distancc
s,
in the streamwise direction of the trailing edge of the vane from ths
imagiliary origin of the wake:'
111)
HOW
docs the undisturbed velocity
U,
of thc model depend on the velocities
U,,,
and
Us,
respc~ti~eIy at the outcr edges of the boundary layer
011
ihe suction and pressure faces respective!?
the trailing
ed9e of the rotor vane?
IV)
How
does the drag coefficient of the model
i,
or its corresponding drag (7.3-59) dcpcnd
on
the
drag of the rotor vane?
V)
What happcns to the flow field, \$.hen thc wakc lies within a laycr, the thickness
t
of which varies
in
the strcaniwisc dircction?
Before entering in dctail the fo1lov:ing assumptions are made: The flov: around the rotor vane is
~xisymnietric. Secondary
fl~;\v
in thc wakc is
neglected.
The normal of the vanc surface makes
an
angle
;.
with
a
planc tnngcntinl to the strcam surfncc. Then obviously any length
11
ncrlnnl to thc vanc
(i.e., its thickness
h
or the thickness
elf
its bolindary layer 6) appears as a thickness rijcos;. nithin thc
stream surface.
The angle
y
can be found
by
the relation
cosy
=
l/[sin
p(1
+
cot2 p/sin2 0)"2]
where/I1is the angle the pattern making section of thc vane 1nakc5 with the circurniercnce,
/j
thc anglc
the
rclat~ve flow along the vane makes with the
circumference,
0
thc angle the radial vallc scction
makes with the radius (Fig. 6.5.1).
To
I)
and
11):
Both the problems belong to each other as the half width of witkc
b
and its length
\
are linked to each othcr
by
rclation (7.3 -61). .4t a trailing edgc the vane thickness ic
/I,
and the thick-
ncss of its boundary layers on the suction and pressure faces S,, and
6,,
respecti~ely. Sincc the wake
originates from the boundary layers at the trailing edge
2b,
=
2b(x1)
=
(b,,
+
h,
+
G,,)/cosy.
(7.3
-
64)
Hence from (7.3-61) the desired distance
x,
of the wake's origin from the trailing edge
x,
=
{[(6,,
+
11,
+
6, ,)/cos
111/(2
J%/%J~/(CDL).
(7.3-
65)
To
II!): Illsert~ng
x
=
s,
into (7.3-71), then the velocity
u,
=
U,,
-
u
at station .u,,
y
of thc wake
model depends on the llndisturbcd velocity
U,,.
To express this figure as a function of the known
vciocities
11,
slid
I,,,
on the suction and pressure face respectively at the vane's trailing cdge, it is
'Ssurned that the flow of kinetic energy through this section of the wake model equals the flow of
lrinetic energy through both the real boundary layers at station
I
of the trailing edge for a flow layer
unit thickness. Accordingly