• Title/Summary/Keyword: Adaptive Airfoil

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Unstructured discretisation of a non-local transition model for turbomachinery flows

  • Ferrero, Andrea;Larocca, Francesco;Bernaschek, Verena
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.4 no.5
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    • pp.555-571
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    • 2017
  • The description of transitional flows by means of RANS equations is sometimes based on non-local approaches which require the computation of some boundary layer properties. In this work a non-local Laminar Kinetic Energy model is used to predict transitional and separated flows. Usually the non-local term of this model is evaluated along the grid lines of a structured mesh. An alternative approach, which does not rely on grid lines, is introduced in the present work. This new approach allows the use of fully unstructured meshes. Furthermore, it reduces the grid-dependence of the predicted results. The approach is employed to study the transitional flows in the T106c turbine cascade and around a NACA0021 airfoil by means of a discontinuous Galerkin method. The local nature of the discontinuous Galerkin reconstruction is exploited to implement an adaptive algorithm which automatically refines the mesh in the most significant regions.

Application Status and Prospects of CNC-Based Technologies in Gas Turbine Industry (가스터빈 산업에서의 CNC 기반기술 응용현황 및 전망)

  • Kang, Sin-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.331-336
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    • 2011
  • The three-dimensional complex curvature of the airfoil complicates the manufacture and repair of gas-turbine components. As a result of the developments in computer technology since the early 1990s, CNC-based technologies for machine tools and related programs have been increasingly applied in the gas turbine industry. In particular, fiveaxis simultaneous machines with adaptive functions have proven its excellent flexibility and productivity due to the capability in determining the 3D data from the unknown curvature. A well-organized robot system with eight-axis simultaneous control can lead to powerful standardization and high productivity. We summarize and review CNC technologies and their applications in the gas turbine industry, with a discussion of the manufacture and repair of gas turbine parts.

A Study on Grid Adaptation by Poisson Equation (푸아송 방정식을 이용한 격자 적응에 대한 연구)

  • 맹주성;문영준;김종태
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.182-189
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    • 1993
  • To improve the resolution of complex flow field features, grid adaptation scheme of Anderson has been revised, which was based on the Poisson grid generator of Thompson. Anderson's original scheme adapts the grid to solution automatically, but if flow field is more or less complex, then the adaptivity is weak. So the technique of using threshold which is used in unstructured grid system is adopted. The regions of large variation in the solution are marked by marking function which has the property of total variation of the solution, and these regions have same values of weight but other regions are neglected. This updated method captures shocks clearly and sharpy. Four examples are demonstrated, (1) Hypersonic flow past a blunt body, (2) High speed inlet analysis, (3) Supersonic flow of M=1.4 over a 4% biconvex airfoil in a channel, (4) Hypersonic shock-on-shock interaction at M=8.03.