Blower and exhaust fans consume over 30% of electricity in a thermal power plant, and faults of these fans due to rotation stalls are one of the most frequent reasons for power plant outage failures. To accurately predict the occurrence of fan rotation stalls, we propose a support vector regression machine (SVRM) model that predicts the fan internal pressures during operation, leaving ample tim...

Based on the three-dimensional elliptic governing equations and the throttle model, an unsteady numerical simulation of rotating stall is undertaken in the case of G4-73 type centrifugal fan and the correctness of simulation results is verified by experiments. In this study a new rotating stall inception criterion is put forward, that the inlet flow or outlet back pressure fluctuations graduall...

April 10-15, 2016 Abstract A whole-annulus unsteady numerical simulation is carried out to investigate the mechanism of the rotating stall in a 1.5-stage low-speed axial-compressor. By comparing the experimental and numerical results, the numerical results are validated. The numerical simulation captures the most features of the rotating stall of the 1.5-stage compressor observed from the exper...

We study a generic one-dimensional model for an intracellular cargo driven by N motor proteins against an external applied force. The model includes motor-cargo and motormotor interactions. The cargo motion is described by an over-damped Langevin equation, while motor dynamics is specified by hopping rates which follow a local detailed balance condition with respect to change in energy per hopp...

T he increase of the thrust-to-weight ratio of modern gas-turbine engines results in higher loads and a reduced number of blades and stages for the compressor. The designer must ensure the acceptable performance of each compressor stage (efficiency and stable operating range) and control the rising risk of blade boundary layer separation. This can be obtained using passive or active control dev...

The objective of this paper is to assess 10 MW directdrive permanent-magnet (DDPM) generator systems with different control strategies namely pitch control and active speed stall control. In the active speed stall control concept, there is no pitch mechanism, and the rotor speed is actively controlled by the generator to control the output power. The active speed stall control wind turbine with...