Aeroelastic Analysis of Blades Cascades Through Aerodynamic Reduced-Order Modeling

An aerodynamic Reduced-Order Model (ROM) is introduced to describe the aeroelastic behavior of a blade cascade of a turbomachine. This is obtained coupling an aerodynamic model with a semi-rigid 2D model for the description of the structure dynamics. The advantages of using an aerodynamic reduced-order model concern the high computational efficiency compared to the direct use of a CFD code, and the applicability of control laws to reduce, for instance, blades vibrations. ROMs are identified from both an analytical aerodynamic model and a numerical CFD solver. The aeroelastic stability of a blade cascade is examined with the presence or not of mistuning.