Transonic Flow Around Rotor Blade Elements

Laser Anemometer Measurements in a Transonic Axial Flow Compressor Rotor

using adaptive meshing for solving the transonic flow around airfoils

numerical analyses have shown that successful flow simulations and the accuracy of solution noticeably depend on the number of nodes used in computational meshing. a suitable meshing should have the capability of adapting with main flow parameters. because the number of total nodes that can be used in numerical simulation is limited, making such grid for complex flows is almost difficult, if it...

TRANSONIC FLOW CALCULATIONS USING TRIANGULAR FINITE ELEMENTS Richard

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ This paper desribes a technique for finding the numerical solution of the Full Potential equation for steady transonic flow about airfoils. The exterior but finite domain is discretized by breaking it up into triangles. Difference equations are formulated using variational principle and a formula for the derivative in an arbitrary polygon. The iterative schem...

Influence of Blade Profiles on Flow around Wells Turbine

The Wells turbine rotor consists of several symmetric airfoil blades arranged around a central hub, and the stagger angle is 90 degrees. These characteristics simplify the total construction of OWC type wave energy converters. Although the Wells turbine is simple, the turbine produces a complicated flow field due to the peculiar arrangement of blades, which can rotate in the same direction irre...

Aerostructural Optimization of a Transonic Compressor Rotor

This paper presents a framework for multi-objective and multidisciplinary design optimization using highfidelity analysis tools. In this framework the aerodynamic performance is evaluated based on a Navier–Stokes equation solver, and the structure dynamics is computed using commercially available finite element software. We employ a genetic algorithm as a robust design optimization tool to faci...