Resonant acoustic frequencies of a tandem cascade. Part 1. Zero relative motion (Q4951963)

In part I of this paper, the scattering between two flat-plate cascades is studied, with the aim of investigating the possible existence of trapped modes. The authors use the Wiener-Hopf technique to analyse the scattering of various wave fields by the cascade blades, taking into account finite chords. Analytic expressions for various scattering matrices are obtained, an infinite-dimensional matrix equation is derived, and its singularity is then investigated numerically. The authors demonstrate that the system exhibits two types of resonance in a wide range of parameter values. First, there is a cut-on/cut-off resonance associated with the gap between the rows. This type of resonance corresponds to modes propagating parallel to the front face of the cascades. Second, there is a resonance due to downstream row, akin to the Parker mode, driven at low frequencies by a vorticity wave produced by trapped duct modes in the upstream row, and at higher frequencies by radiation modes (and by the vorticity wave) between the blade rows. In part II, the authors show how the methods of part I can be extended to account for the case of more practical interest, in which the upstream cascade (rotor) is rotating in the transverse direction relative to the downstream cascade (stator). Time-periodicity causes the temporal frequency of the disturbance to be an integer multiple of the rotor passing frequency in the stator frame, and vice versa. This leads to the summation over a discrete set of temporal modes, as well as over the spatial modes, as already described in part I.