Dynamics and control of entrained solutions in multi-mode MooreGreitzer compressor models (Q4955096)

Starting from the Moore-Greitzer model of a compressor which describes the pressure rise and axial flow in the engine along its axis, and after performing a Fourier series expansion of a perturbation term which appears via partial derivatives in the model, the authors present expressions for the amplitude and the phase of the Fourier models describing non-axisymmetric solutions involved in pure rotating stall. By varying some parameter a multiple Hopf bifurcation occurs and the bifurcated solutions are interpreted as a rotating stall cell. Due to \(SO(2)\) equivariance of the ODEs describing the amplitudes and the phases, the solutions decay to travelling solutions of fixed shape, a phenomenon called entrainment. By looking at the first three modes only, one sees that such a phase locking exists for flow coefficients larger than those given by the peak of the axisymmetric compressor characteristic which corresponds to the primary (one mode) bifurcation into stall. This is called deep hysteresis. Another parameter generates axisymmetric bifurcation solutions (surge) and multiple inner relaxation oscillations are observed in the multi-mode model. This is called classic surge and it cannot be modelled in the one-mode approximation. A proposed feedback is seen via simulations to eliminate deep hysteresis. This publication reports and interprets simulations (no proofs) in an attempt to provide better modelling via multi-mode approximation of axial compressors.