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Optimizing Gas-Turbine Operation using Finite-Element CFD Modeling
2018 Joint Propulsion Conference
  • Manoj R. Rajanna, Iowa State University
  • Fen Xu, Iowa State University
  • Ming-Chen Hsu, Iowa State University
  • Yuri Bazilevs, Boston University
  • Muthuvel Murugan, United States Army Research Laboratory
  • Anindya Ghoshal, United States Army Research Laboratory
  • Luis Bravo, United States Army Research Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-2018
DOI
10.2514/6.2018-4657
Conference Title
2018 Joint Propulsion Conference
Conference Date
July 9-11, 2018
Geolocation
(39.1031182, -84.51201960000003)
Abstract

Gas turbine engines are generally optimized to operate at nearly a fixed speed with fixed blade geometries for the design operating condition. The performance of gas turbine reduces when operated at different operating condition. In this work, we present a parametric study to optimize gas-turbine performance under off-design conditions by articulating the rotor blades in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions. Articulating the pitch angle of turbine blades in coordination with adjustable nozzle vanes can improve performance by maintaining flow incidence angles within the optimum range at certain off-design conditions. To observe the effect of rotor pitching on the performance of the gas turbine, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study is performed using the finite element formulation for compressible flows with moving domain. Results obtained from the CFD simulation for different rotor pitch angles are presented in this paper.

Comments

This proceeding was published as Rajanna, Manoj R., Fei Xu, Ming-Chen Hsu, Yuri Bazilevs, Muthuvel Murugan, Anindya Ghoshal, and Luis G. Bravo. "Optimizing Gas-Turbine Operation using Finite-Element CFD Modeling." In 2018 Joint Propulsion Conference, (2018): 4657. doi: 10.2514/6.2018-4657 . Posted with permission.

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Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Manoj R. Rajanna, Fen Xu, Ming-Chen Hsu, Yuri Bazilevs, et al.. "Optimizing Gas-Turbine Operation using Finite-Element CFD Modeling" Cincinnati, OH2018 Joint Propulsion Conference (2018) p. 4657
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ming-chen_hsu/36/