TY - GEN

T1 - A Priori Interface Reduction for Substructuring of Multistage Bladed Disks

AU - Schwerdt, Lukas

AU - Panning-von Scheidt, Lars

AU - Wallaschek, Jörg

N1 - Funding information: Acknowledgement The authors kindly thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) for enabling this publication by funding the research project Influence of Regeneration-induced Mistuning on the Aeroelasticity of Multi-Stage Axial Compressors as part of the Collaborative Research Center 871 Regeneration of Complex Capital Goods.

PY - 2019/6/15

Y1 - 2019/6/15

N2 - When analyzing the dynamics of bladed disks in turbomachinery, most methods focus on a single stage at a time because of the challenges associated with multistage structures. Whereas the cyclic symmetry of individual bladed disks is commonly exploited to yield great savings of computational effort, multistage rotors lack this symmetry due to the differing number of blades in each stage. Substructuring methods can be used to overcome this problem but they still face challenges with non-conforming finite element meshes at the interface between stages. Some state of the art methods expect the nodes at the interface to be arranged in concentric rings and use a truncated Fourier series as basis for the displacement along each ring of nodes. In this paper, a reduction basis for the interface degrees of freedom between adjacent stages is proposed which uses polynomial basis functions in the radial direction in addition to a truncated Fourier series in the circumferential direction. This enables coupling the substructures of multiple stages with arbitrary meshes. Additionally, the resulting reduced order model (ROM) can be smaller while preserving accuracy. The proposed interface reduction is demonstrated in conjunction with a cyclic Craig-Bampton (CB) reduction of each stage. Different ROMs are compared to show the impact of the CB reduction as well as the interface reduction.

AB - When analyzing the dynamics of bladed disks in turbomachinery, most methods focus on a single stage at a time because of the challenges associated with multistage structures. Whereas the cyclic symmetry of individual bladed disks is commonly exploited to yield great savings of computational effort, multistage rotors lack this symmetry due to the differing number of blades in each stage. Substructuring methods can be used to overcome this problem but they still face challenges with non-conforming finite element meshes at the interface between stages. Some state of the art methods expect the nodes at the interface to be arranged in concentric rings and use a truncated Fourier series as basis for the displacement along each ring of nodes. In this paper, a reduction basis for the interface degrees of freedom between adjacent stages is proposed which uses polynomial basis functions in the radial direction in addition to a truncated Fourier series in the circumferential direction. This enables coupling the substructures of multiple stages with arbitrary meshes. Additionally, the resulting reduced order model (ROM) can be smaller while preserving accuracy. The proposed interface reduction is demonstrated in conjunction with a cyclic Craig-Bampton (CB) reduction of each stage. Different ROMs are compared to show the impact of the CB reduction as well as the interface reduction.

KW - Component mode synthesis

KW - Interface reduction

KW - Mistuning

KW - Model order reduction

KW - Multistage

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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-12184-6_2

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-12184-6_2

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85068165606

SN - 978-3-030-12186-0

SN - 978-3-030-12183-9

T3 - Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series

SP - 13

EP - 21

BT - Dynamic Substructures, Volume 4

A2 - Linderholt, Andreas

A2 - Allen, Matthew S.

A2 - Mayes, Randall L.

A2 - Rixen, Daniel

T2 - 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019

Y2 - 28 January 2019 through 31 January 2019

ER -