Simulation of Transonic Flow Through a Mid-Span Turbine Blade Cascade with the Separation-Induced Transition

The paper deals with the numerical simulation of the transonic flow through a mid-span turbine blade cascade by means of an in-house code based on the EARSM turbulence model of Hellsten [1] completed by the algebraic transition model of Straka and Příhoda [2]. The simulation using the transition model of Langtry and Menter [3] and Menter et al. [4] implemented in the commercial code ANSYS Fluent was used for the comparison. Simulations were carried out for the transonic regime close to the nominal regime. The flow separation on the suction side of the blade is caused by the interaction of the reflected shock wave with the boundary layer. The attention was focused on the modelling of the transition in the separated flow especially on the modelling of the length of the transition region. Numerical results were compared with experimental results