Digital Twin Technologies for Turbomachinery in a Life Cycle Perspective: A Review

Turbomachinery from a life cycle perspective involves sustainability-oriented development activities such as design, production, and operation. Digital Twin is technology with great potential for improving turbomachinery, which has high volume of investment long lifespan. This study presents general framework different digital twin enabling technologies the turbomachinery cycle, including design phase, experimental manufacturing assembly operation maintenance recycle phase. The existing are briefly reviewed. New discussed, modelling, simulation, sensors, Industrial Internet Things, big data, AI technologies. Finally, major challenges opportunities DT discussed.