A New Segmented Suction Slot Design Based on the Performance of Compressor Cascade

To develop an effective suction slot arrangement, computational fluid dynamics simulation software and a high subsonic compressor cascade were used to simulate different suction slots. Based on the effects of various suction slots on the cascade performance under various operating conditions, a novel segmented suction slot structure Seg(3) was proposed. The results of the study revealed that in the vicinity of the operating conditions (incidence <= 4 circle), a full-blade height suction slot should be installed at least 5% of the chord length downstream of the corner separation point to effectively remove the separation. For small and medium incidences, the best performance was observed for suction slot SS5, which was located at 60% of the chord length downstream of the leading edge. Analyzing the effects of SS5 and Seg(3) on the cascade performance revealed that when the incidence was less than 4 degrees, the reductions in the total pressure loss coefficients for zeta(suc) of SS5 and Seg(3) both exceeded 8.2%. When the incidence was 4 degrees or greater, the zeta(suc) increased slightly for SS5, whereas it decreased for Seg(3), and the zeta(suc) was reduced. For a 3 degrees incidence, for example, Seg(3) reduced the zeta(suc) and passage blockage by 12.74% and 8.41%, respectively, and increased the static pressure rise coefficient by 18.55% from the baseline values. Thus, the segmented suction slot proposed in this paper outperformed conventional full-blade height suction slots.