Assessment of Two Harmonic Balance Method-Based Numerical Strategies for Blade-Tip/Casing Interactions: Application to NASA Rotor 67
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Abstract
Abstract The study presented in this paper focuses on the analysis of rubbing interactions—including unilateral contact and dry friction—between a rotating fan blade and a rigid casing by frequency domain methods. Two previously published Harmonic Balance Method-based methodologies are assessed: (1) an approach relying on augmented Lagrangians and (2) a second method using a regularized penalty law combined with a Lanczos σ-approximation filter. As a reference point for this comparison, a time-domain numerical strategy relying on a Lagrange multiplier-based contact treatment is considered. All computations are run with the NASA rotor 67 fan blade, an open industrial blade geometry. As it undergoes structural contacts, this blade features an intricate dynamics response, thus making it a challenging case study for nonlinear iterative solvers. The contact scenario is chosen to be an ovalization of the casing with no external forcing. This scenario induces highly nonlinear responses of the blade and complex phenomena such as isolated frequency response curves. The results presented underline a very good agreement of the different strategies with the reference time marching approach. An in-depth comparison is made with an emphasis on nonlinear frequency response curves (NFRC) and time signals. Finally, a physical analysis of the encountered isolas is presented through an in-depth investigation of the main modal contributions for each computed solution. In the end, this paper provides new qualitative elements allowing for a better understanding of rubbing interactions that may not be efficiently obtained with time marching procedures.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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