Development of New Casing Treatment Configuration

Circumferential grooves over a rotor blade tips are used for improving axial flow compressor performances. Such casing treatment facility extends a stable operation range in most cases, but decreases compressor efficiency as a rule. There are presented results of parametric investigation of grooves of traditional and new configurations. Development of new groove constructions must permit combining of stable operation range extension with efficiency increase. Model on basis of Group Method of Data Handling may help designing groove configurations with improved performances.