Numerical Simulation of Supersonic Flow Field in Rotor Blade Cascade for Impulse Torpedo Turbine

To study fluid characteristic in torpedo turbine flow passages and guide structure design of the flow pas-sages, the flow field in rotor blade cascade of an impulse supersonic torpedo turbine was numerically investigated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. The detail information of flow, total pressure loss, and aerodynamic load and temperature load on a blade were analyzed. Simulation results show that: flow in rotor flow passages is very com-plicated; blade incidence angle exerts significant effect on the flow; the larger the incidence angle, the more severe the boundary layer separation, the stronger the shock wave, and the more the total pressure loss; when a blade is pass through the nozzle area, the aerodynamic load on it first increases and then decreases; heavier aerodynamic load leads to smaller temperature load and temperature gradient in the blade.