JSME International Journal Series B Fluids and Thermal Engineering
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Print ISSN : 1340-8054
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Flow Style Investigation and Noise Reduction of a Cross-Flow Fan with Varied Rotor-Skew-Angle Rotor
Go-Long TSAITsung-Hsien TUTung-Chen LIKuang-Hsieng WANG
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2006 Volume 49 Issue 3 Pages 695-704

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The purpose of this study was investigating the noise emission, flow-style, fan’s performance regarding to cross-fan with three different rotor-skew angle (RSA) rotors. The special flow visualization setups for both vertical and parallel investigation of smoke slice were used to overcome the blind sight of a Laser-Doppler or a particle-tracking velocimeter, and the three-dimensional flow differences were confirmed with streamline images. The experimental results indicated that RSA-5, which is a rotor with a nearly a pitch skew within blade’s two end shrouds, has a lower sound emission and little pressure drops relative to that of no skew angle case, RSA-0. RSA-10, two pitches twisting case, also has a better acoustics quietness than that of RSA-0, but it excited undesired noise in a high frequency components around 2-4kHz. In this work, for a compromise between flow and acoustics performances, RSA-5 shows the most suitable design for cross-flow fan rotor.
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