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Hamed Abdeh, Giovanna Barigozzi and Nicoletta Franchina
Off-design condition of a rotor blade cascade with and without platform cooling was experimentally investigated. The ability of the gas turbine to operate down to 50% to 20% of its nominal intake air flow rate has an important consequence in the change i...
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Min-Su Kim, In-Hoi Koo, Keon-Hyeong Lee, Eun-Sung Lee, Hyung-Seok Han, Seung-Min Jeong, Holak Kim and Jeong-Yeol Choi
This experimental investigation focused on the ignition and combustion characteristics of a tandem cavity-based scramjet combustor with side-by-side identical cavities. This study utilized the Pusan National University-direct connect scramjet combustor (...
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Chuangxin Zhou, Shengfeng Zhao and Xingen Lu
A detailed numerical simulation of a transonic tandem fan stage was conducted, and the change rule of the flow structure inside the fan stage under the design and off-design conditions was discussed to determine the internal flow mechanisms. The results ...
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Hu Qixiang, Yang Yang, Shi Weidong, Cao Weidong and Shi Yansheng
Cavitation is regarded as a considerable factor causing performance deterioration of pumps under off-design conditions, especially at overload conditions. To investigate the unsteady cavitation evolution around the tongue of a pump volute, and its influe...
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Nicolas P. Bons and Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) has been previously applied to aerostructural wing design problems with great success. Most previous applications involve fine-tuning a well-designed aircraft wing. In this work, we broaden the scope of the opt...
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Carlo Cravero, Davide De Domenico and Andrea Ottonello
One of the main issues addressed in any engineering design problem is to predict the performance of the component or system as accurately and realistically as possible, taking into account the variability of operating conditions or the uncertainty on inp...
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Alex Yeung, Nagabhushana Rao Vadlamani, Tom Hynes and Sumit Sarvankar
This paper studies the computational modelling of the flow separation over the engine nacelle lips under the off-design condition of significant crosswind. A numerical framework is set up to reproduce the general flow characteristics under crosswinds wit...
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Nicoletta Franchina, Otman Kouaissah, Giacomo Persico and Marco Savini
The paper presents the results of a computational study on the aerodynamics and the performance of a small-scale Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) for distributed micro-generation. The complexity of VAWT aerodynamics, which are inherently unsteady and th...
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Marios Patinios, James A. Scobie, Carl M. Sangan and Gary D. Lock
This paper presents measurements of CO2 concentration and pressure in a new, highly instrumented and versatile, 1.5-stage gas turbine facility. The rig, which has been specifically designed for investigations related to hot gas ingestion, features interc...
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Young Min Kim, Dong Gil Shin and Chang Gi Kim
This study investigated the effect of the built-in volume ratio of an expander on the performance of a dual-loop Rankine cycle system for the engine waste heat recovery of a vehicle. Varying vehicle operating conditions can cause a positive displacement ...
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