Reversing Design Methodology of Ceramic Core for Hollow Turbine Blade Based on Measured Data

Author(s):  
Yangliu Dou ◽  
Fengjun Yan ◽  
Kun Bu

The precision of complex ceramic core is one of the essential factors for hollow turbine blade manufacturing, which has a significant impact on the development of the modern aircraft engine. In terms of the low precision of ceramic core formation, this paper proposes an approach through measuring the data from a group of ceramic cores, to study the computational methods for displacement field, deformational feature decoupling, and structural shrinkage ratio. Based on modeling and analysis of decoupled deformational features and the uneven structural shrinkage ratio, this paper proposes an inverse design method and optimizes the design of the die profile for ceramic core. The applicability of this method is validated using numerical simulation data and experimental results.

Author(s):  
J. C. Pa´scoa ◽  
A. C. Mendes ◽  
L. M. C. Gato

This paper presents the results of the aerodynamic redesign of an annular turbine blade row. The inverse method herein applied is an extension to 3D of an iterative inverse design method based on the imposition of the blade load, thickness distribution and stacking line. We define a mass-averaged mean tangential velocity over one blade pitch, ru¯θ, as the main design variable, since its derivative is related to the aerodynamic load. A time-lagged formulation for the 3D camber surface generator is given in order to include the blade thickness distribution into the design algorithm. The hybrid viscous-inviscid design code comprises three main components: the blade update algorithm; a fast inviscid 3D Euler code; and a viscous analysis code. The blade geometry and flow conditions are typical of LP turbine nozzle guide vanes. The design method will demonstrate its ability to redesign blade rows that achieve lower flow losses and a more uniform exit flow angle distribution. The performance of the new blades is checked by means of a Navier-Stokes computation using the κ–ε turbulence model. The presented results show a minor decrease in the losses and a better redistribution of the exit flow angle.


Author(s):  
Jiaqi Luo ◽  
Xiao Tang ◽  
Yanhui Duan ◽  
Feng Liu

This paper presents an iterative inverse design methodology based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and its applications to the inverse design of turbomachinery blades. In the aerodynamic system with a number of snapshots, the aerodynamic performance with the corresponding aerodynamic shape within the design space can be described as a linear combination of a series of POD basis modes. In the present paper, the description ability of Gappy POD is evaluated firstly and the influence of different parametrization methods and different snapshot approaches are studied and compared in detail. In the POD-based inverse design, the aerodynamic shape can be obtained by only one design process. However, due to the error between the predicted aerodynamic performance by Gappy POD and that obtained from computational fluid dynamics, an iterative inverse design methodology is proposed herein based on the error correction to the target aerodynamic performance. Three inverse design studies of turbomachinery blades are performed. In the first two cases, the profiles of two-dimensional turbine blades are modified to approach the target pressure distributions on the blade surface in subsonic and transonic flow, respectively. In the third case, a three-dimensional supersonic turbine blade is restaggered along span to achieve a given loading distribution in the spanwise direction at the outlet. The design results are presented and compared in detail, demonstrating the effectiveness and improved accuracy of the POD-based iterative inverse design method.


Author(s):  
M. Zangeneh

In the design of centrifugal compressor impellers with splitter blades it is quite common to use the same blade shapes on the full and splitter blades with the splitters placed at the mid-pitch location. However, recent results using conventional design methodology have indicated that by moving the pitchwise location of the leading edge of the splitter it is possible to improve splitter performance. In this paper a 3D inverse design method is developed for the design of compressor impellers with splitters. In this design method the blades are designed subject to a specified distribution of the circulation on the full and splitter blades. The paper describes the choice of loading (or derivative of circulation with respect to meridional distance) and stacking condition to limit the complexity of the blade shape. Two different generic impellers are designed with different splitter leading edge location. The performance of these inverse designed impellers is then compared with the corresponding conventional impellers by using a 3D viscous code at design and off-design conditions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Longinovich Bolsunovsky ◽  
Nikolay Petrovich Buzoverya ◽  
Nikita Aleksandrovich Pushchin

2021 ◽  
pp. 1475472X2110238
Author(s):  
Douglas M Nark ◽  
Michael G Jones

The attenuation of fan tones remains an important aspect of fan noise reduction for high bypass ratio turbofan engines. However, as fan design considerations have evolved, the simultaneous reduction of broadband fan noise levels has gained interest. Advanced manufacturing techniques have also opened new possibilities for the practical implementation of broadband liner concepts. To effectively address these elements, practical acoustic liner design methodologies must provide the capability to efficiently predict the acoustic benefits of novel liner configurations. This paper describes such a methodology to design and evaluate multiple candidate liner configurations using realistic, three dimensional geometries for which minimal source information is available. The development of the design methodology has been guided by a series of studies culminating in the design and flight test of a low drag, broadband inlet liner. The excellent component and system noise benefits obtained in this test demonstrate the effectiveness of the broadband liner design process. They also illustrate the value of the approach in concurrently evaluating multiple liner designs and their application to various locations within the aircraft engine nacelle. Thus, the design methodology may be utilized with increased confidence to investigate novel liner configurations in future design studies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 4845
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hossein Noorsalehi ◽  
Mahdi Nili-Ahmadabadi ◽  
Seyed Hossein Nasrazadani ◽  
Kyung Chun Kim

The upgraded elastic surface algorithm (UESA) is a physical inverse design method that was recently developed for a compressor cascade with double-circular-arc blades. In this method, the blade walls are modeled as elastic Timoshenko beams that smoothly deform because of the difference between the target and current pressure distributions. Nevertheless, the UESA is completely unstable for a compressor cascade with an intense normal shock, which causes a divergence due to the high pressure difference near the shock and the displacement of shock during the geometry corrections. In this study, the UESA was stabilized for the inverse design of a compressor cascade with normal shock, with no geometrical filtration. In the new version of this method, a distribution for the elastic modulus along the Timoshenko beam was chosen to increase its stiffness near the normal shock and to control the high deformations and oscillations in this region. Furthermore, to prevent surface oscillations, nodes need to be constrained to move perpendicularly to the chord line. With these modifications, the instability and oscillation were removed through the shape modification process. Two design cases were examined to evaluate the method for a transonic cascade with normal shock. The method was also capable of finding a physical pressure distribution that was nearest to the target one.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 4045
Author(s):  
David Menéndez Arán ◽  
Ángel Menéndez

A design method was developed for automated, systematic design of hydrokinetic turbine rotor blades. The method coupled a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver to estimate the power output of a given turbine with a surrogate-based constrained optimization method. This allowed the characterization of the design space while minimizing the number of analyzed blade geometries and the associated computational effort. An initial blade geometry developed using a lifting line optimization method was selected as the base geometry to generate a turbine blade family by multiplying a series of geometric parameters with corresponding linear functions. A performance database was constructed for the turbine blade family with the CFD solver and used to build the surrogate function. The linear functions were then incorporated into a constrained nonlinear optimization algorithm to solve for the blade geometry with the highest efficiency. A constraint on the minimum pressure on the blade could be set to prevent cavitation inception.


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