Mistuning and Structural Coupling Effects on Flutter of Turbomachinery Blades

A fast numerical method based on aeroelastic eigenvalue analysis is applied to study the effects of mistuning on the aeroelastic stability of turbomachinery blades in which the structural coupling is included by a simplified method and an influence coefficient method is employed to deal with the unsteady aerodynamic effects. Results show that there exists an optimal mistuning amount at which the system has the best aeroelastic stability. Structural coupling almost has no effects on aeroelastic stability of a tuned system. But the benefit of alternate frequency mistuning to aeroelastic stability is inhibited drastically when structural coupling is introduced into the bladed disk system.