This paper describes the development of a computational method to solve the equations of fluid flow across a turbomachinery blade row. The work was done within the Numerical Propulsion System Simulation (NPSS) computational framework and results in a collection of objects which use an implicit formulation of the turbomachinery equations to solve for the fluid exit conditions across each blade r...

The hub and casing walls of axial compressors are often modeled as smooth continuous surfaces in CFD simulations, but real geometries, non-smooth pinches, steps leakage cavities may exist. In the GPPS first Turbomachinery Workshop, a comprehensive validation verification campaign RANS flow solvers was conducted, all simulation results consistently over-predicted total pressure ratio at rotor ex...

It is well known that flow instabilities called rotating stall and surge may occur in non-cavitating turbomachines at flow rates smaller than design. Rotating stall is a local instability at the turbomachinery which is basically not dependent on the hydraulic system in which the turbomachine is installed. The stalled region rotates faster than impeller. Surge is a system instability in a hydrau...

An artificial dissipation scheme using the concepts of SLIP and CUSP is implemented on top of a baseline three-dimensional turbomachinery flow code. The original baseline code uses a finite-volume method for the Navier-Stokes equations with classical Jameson-Schmidt-Turkel(JST) scalar dissipation scheme. This paper focuses on the comparison of the performance of the CUSP scheme with the origina...

In a situation where traffic, railway or aircraft noise sources are not present, as it happens in shielded areas, other sources might become relevant in terms of annoyance. This is the case of typical turbomachinery elements, such as fans, compressors or turbines, where sound is generated aerodynamically. As a part of the Sonorus project, where all noise sources in urban environments are consid...

Turbodrill is a type of hydraulic axial turbomachinery which has a multistage blade consisting of stators and rotors. In this paper, a turbodrill blade that can be applied in crystallized section under high temperature and pressure conditions is developed. On the basis of Euler equations, the law of energy transfer is analyzed and the output characteristics of turbodrill blade are proposed. Mor...

This paper presents an optimization tool used for the design of turbomachinery components. It is based on a metamodel assisted evolutionary approach combined with a Computer Aided Design (CAD) library for the shape generation. The analysis of the components performance is performed by Computational Solid Mechanics (CSM) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Typical optimization problems inclu...