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Towards a Design Tool for Turbomachinery

A two-dimensional thin-layer Navier-Stokes cascade flow solver for turbomachinery is
developed. A second-order finite-difference scheme and a second and fourth-difference
dissipation scheme are used. Periodic and non-reflecting inlet and outlet boundary conditions
are implemented into the approximate-factorization numerical method. Turbulence
is modeled through the one-equation Spalart-Allmaras model. A two-dimensional turbomachinery
cascade structured grid generator is developed to produce six-block H-type
grids.
The validity of this work is tested in various ways. A grid convergence study is
performed showing the effect of grid density. The non-reflecting inlet and outlet boundary
conditions are tested for boundary placement influence. Comparisons of the flow solver
numerical results are performed against experimental results. A Mach number sweep and
angle of attack sweep are performed on two similar transonic turbine cascades.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OTU.1807/25568
Date31 December 2010
CreatorsEpp, Duane R.
ContributorsZingg, David W.
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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