Abstract This paper presents the development and applications of a fluorescent Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique as countermeasure for undesired light reflections on surfaces channel walls or obstacles. The employment dye-doped tracer particle with wavelength-specific optical filter enables separation stokes-shifted emission from surfaces. Aiming at applying to engine-like turbomachine...

Flow separation is ubiquitous in turbomachinery. Compared with the more mature turbomachinery flow control method where medium gas, liquid cannot be controlled well. In this study, according to principle of aircraft fowler flap, taking stator blade hydraulic torque converter as basic research object, shape fitted Joukowsky transformation, and then it slotted. Computational fluid dynamics used p...

A method is presented for the quick and accurate prediction of the stability of aerodynamically excited turbomachinery using real eigenvalue/eigenvector data obtained from a rotordynamics model. An expression is presented which uses the modal data and the transmitted torque to provide a numerical value of the relative stability of the system. This approach provides a powerful design tool to qui...

This paper presents a fuzzy knowledge-based system for turbomachinery diagnosis. Given symptoms associated with a vibration problem, the system can identify and rank possible causes by performing incremental forward chaining. The diagnostic system incorporates an attribute weighting component to reflect the relative significance of conditional attributes, thereby allowing the system to produce ...

MEMS are regarded to be an enabling technology allowing the development of smart products by augmenting the computational ability of microelectronics with the perception and control capabilities of micro-sensors and micro-actuators. MEMS technology makes possible the integration of microelectronics with active perception and control functions, thereby, greatly expanding the design and applicati...

For jets, large eddy resolving simulations are compared for a range of numerical schemes with no subgrid scale (SGS) model and for a range of SGS models with the same scheme. There is little variation in results for the different SGS models, and it is shown that, for schemes which tend towards having dissipative elements, the SGS model can be abandoned, giving what can be termed numerical large...

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) probably plays a greater part in the aerodynamic design of turbomachinery than it does in any other engineering application. For many years the design of a modern turbine or compressor has been unthinkable without the help of CFD and this dependence has increased as more of the flow becomes amenable to numerical prediction. The benefits of CFD range from short...

Steady state simulations in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), which rely on implicit time integration, are not experiencing great accelerations on GPUs. Moreover, most of the reported acceleration effort concerns solving the linear system of equations while neglecting the acceleration potential of running the entire simulation on the GPU. In this paper, we present the software implementation ...

Fretting is a structural damage mechanism arising between two nominally clamped surfaces subjected to an oscillatory loading. A critical location for fretting induced darnage has been identified at the blade/disk and blade/damper interfaces of gas turbine engine turbomachinery and space propulsion components. The hightemperature, high-frequency loading environment seen by these components lead ...