Bowei Wang¹, Wenzhong Tang¹, Lukai Song^2,3,*, Guangchen Bai³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.133, No.1, pp. 171-193, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021123

Abstract With increasing design demands of turbomachinery, stochastic flutter behavior has become more prominent and even appears a hazard to reliability and safety. Stochastic flutter assessment is an effective measure to quantify the failure risk and improve aeroelastic stability. However, for complex turbomachinery with multiple dynamic influencing factors (i.e., aeroengine compressor with time-variant loads), the stochastic flutter assessment is hard to be achieved effectively, since large deviations and inefficient computing will be incurred no matter considering influencing factors at a certain instant or the whole time domain. To improve the assessing efficiency and accuracy of stochastic flutter behavior, a dynamic meta-modeling… More >

Mohamed Omri^1,*, Yusuf Al-Turki², Ahmed A. Alghamdi¹, Amrid Amnache³, Luc G. Fréchette³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 961-977, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021406

Abstract In this paper, three-dimensional flows in laminar subsonic cascades at relatively low Reynolds numbers (Re < 2500) are presented, based on numerical calculations. The stator and rotor blade designs are those for a MEMS-based Rankine microturbine power-plant-on-a-chip with 109-micron chord blades. Blade passage calculations in 3D were done for different Reynolds numbers, tip clearances (from 0 to 20%) and incidences (0° to 15°) to determine the impact of aerodynamic conditions on the flow patterns. These conditions are applied to a blade passage for a stationary outer casing. The 3D blade passage without tip clearance indicates the presence of two large… More >

J. C. Páscoa¹, A. C. Mendes¹, L. M. C. Gato², R. Elder³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.6, No.6, pp. 537-546, 2004, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2004.006.537

Abstract The paper presents an aerodynamic design method for turbomachinery cascades of blades. The prescribed conditions are the aerodynamic blade load and the blade thickness distributions. An iterative procedure was implemented, based on the solution of the Euler equations, to seek the blade geometry that provides the specified design conditions. A central finite-volume explicit time-marching scheme is used to solve the Euler equations in two-dimensional flow. The numerical scheme uses an adaptive nonlinear artificial dissipation term based on the limiter theory. Starting with the results from the flow analysis through an initially guessed cascade geometry, the design code modifies the blade… More >

T. Kipouros¹, D.M. Jaeggi², W.N. Dawes³, G.T. Parks²,A.M. Savill¹, P.J. Clarkson²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 1-44, 2008, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2008.037.001

Abstract An approach to support the computational aerodynamic design process is presented and demonstrated through the application of a novel multi-objective variant of the Tabu Search optimization algorithm for continuous problems to the aerodynamic design optimization of turbomachinery blades. The aim is to improve the performance of a specific stage and ultimately of the whole engine. The integrated system developed for this purpose is described. This combines the optimizer with an existing geometry parameterization scheme and a well-established CFD package. The system's performance is illustrated through case studies -- one two-dimensional, one three-dimensional -- in which flow characteristics important to the… More >