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{"title":"Endwall geometric uncertainty and error on the performance of TUDA-GLR-OpenStage transonic axial compressor","authors":"Kailong Xia, Xiao He, Mingmin Zhu, Fabian Klausmann, Jinfang Teng, Mehdi Vahdati","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/161708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/161708","url":null,"abstract":"The hub and casing walls of axial compressors are often modeled as smooth continuous surfaces in CFD simulations, but in real geometries, non-smooth pinches, steps and leakage cavities may exist. In the GPPS first Turbomachinery CFD Workshop, a comprehensive validation and verification campaign of RANS flow solvers was conducted, and all the simulation results consistently over-predicted the total pressure ratio at the rotor exit near the casing and the stator exit near the hub. From a recent examination of the test rig geometry, a pinched casing wall over the rotor and a leakage cavity below the stator were found, which were not considered in the workshop. In this paper, the effects of these endwall geometric uncertainties and errors are analyzed via numerical simulation. When considering the rotor casing pinch of the test geometry, the predicted total pressure ratio and choke mass flow of the compressor stage are smaller than that without the pinch, leading to better agreement with the measured data. When considering a stator hub cavity with a leakage flow rate of about 0.2% of the compressor inlet mass flow, the near-hub total pressure ratio distribution matches slightly better with the experimental data, but the effects on the global compressor stage characteristics are not visible. The relevant mechanisms of these changes in performances are analyzed in detail. The updated geometries and grids will be released to the public as a benchmark test case for turbomachinery CFD validation and verification.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135821939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Virtual process for evaluating the influence of real combined module variations on the overall performance of an aircraft engine","authors":"Jan Goeing, Hendrik Seehausen, Lennart Stania, Nicolas Nuebel, Julian Salomon, Panagiotis Ignatidis, Friedrich Dinkelacker, Michael Beer, Berend Berend, Joerg Seume, Jens Friedrichs","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/160055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/160055","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of real combined variances in components and modules of aero engines, due to production tolerances or deterioration, on the performance of an aircraft engine are analysed in a knowledge-based process. For this purpose, an aero-thermodynamic virtual evaluation process that combines physical and probabilistic models to determine the sensitivities in the local module aerodynamics and the global overall performance is developed. Therefore, an automatic process that digitises, parameterises, reconstructs and analyses the geometry automatically using the example of a real turbofan high-pressure turbine blade is developed. The influence on the local aerodynamics of the reconstructed blade is investigated via a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The results of the high-pressure turbine (HPT) CFD as well as of a Gas-Path-Analysis for further modules, such as the compressors and the low-pressure turbine, are transferred into a simulation of the performance of the whole aircraft engine to evaluate the overall performance. All results are used to train, validate and test several deep learning architectures. These metamodels are utilised for a global sensitivity analysis that is able to evaluate the sensitivities and interactions. On the one hand, the results show that the aerodynamics (especially the efficiency <inline-formula><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\"><mml:msub><mml:mi>η</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mi>P</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:math></inline-formula> and capacity <inline-formula><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\"><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mover><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>˙</mml:mo></mml:mover></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mi>P</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:math></inline-formula>) are particularly driven by the variation of the stagger angle. On the other hand, <inline-formula><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\"><mml:msub><mml:mi>η</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mi>P</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:math></inline-formula> is significantly related to exhaust gas temperature (Tt5), while specific fuel consumption (SFC) and mass flow <inline-formula><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\"><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mover><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mo>˙</mml:mo></mml:mover></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>H</mml:mi><mml:mi>P</mml:mi><mml:mi>T</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:math></inline-formula> are related to HPC exit temperature (Tt3). However, it can be seen that the high-pressure compressor has the most significant impact on the overall performance. This novel knowledge-based approach can accurately determine the impact of component variances on overall performance and complement experience-based approach","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135957411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"GAS turbine sensor fault diagnostic system in a real-time executable digital-twin","authors":"Samuel Cruz-Manzo, Vili Panov, Chris Bingham","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/159781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/159781","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a sensor fault diagnostic system to detect/isolate and accommodate faults in sensors from an industrial gas turbine has been developed. The sensor fault diagnostic module is integrated with a gas turbine real-time executable digital-twin (RT xDT) reported in a previous study. The sensor fault diagnostic module of the digital-twin considers analytical sensor redundancy using a reference engine model to provide redundant estimates of measured engine variables. A Software-in-the-Loop (S-i-L) architecture and Hardware-in-the-Loop (H-i-L) facility are constructed to assess the sensor diagnostic module (fault detection/ fault isolation) during failure in sensors from the engine. The results demonstrated that if the discrepancy between virtual measurement (provided by digital-twin) and sensor measurement exceeds the prescribed tolerance levels, the sensor fault diagnostic logic determines the state of switching between the virtual and engine sensor measurements in a dual lane control configuration of the gas turbine control system. The sensor fault detection system implemented in the gas turbine RT xDT can be deployed onto a distributed control system of industrial gas turbines to diagnose sensor deficiencies and ensure continuous and safe operation of the gas turbine. Consequently, the developed system will increase engine availability and reliability by diagnosing engine operational deficiencies before severe failure.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136171837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Starting and windmilling simulations using compressor and turbine maps","authors":"Kurzke Joachim","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/159372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/159372","url":null,"abstract":"Starting and windmilling simulations with a normal gas turbine performance program require extended compressor and turbine maps which include sub-idle corrected speeds down to say 5–10% of the design value. During such simulations certain specific phenomena which are insignificant in the normal operating range between idle and full power must be considered. For example, while starting a low bypass ratio mixed flow turbofan, flow reversal in the bypass duct can occur. This paper illustrates a general understanding of what happens from when the starter is activated to when stabilized idle operation is reached. Operating lines in the compressor and turbine maps are predicted depending on starter torque, starter power, burner light-up and starter cut-off speed. It is explained why knowing combustor efficiency precisely is not required for that. Simulating engine starting and windmilling is not a magical art. The laws of physics still apply at these somewhat exotic operating conditions.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43153694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Boundary layer control for low Reynolds number fan rig testing","authors":"Alejandro Castillo Pardo, Tim Williams, Christopher Clark, Nick Atkins, Cesare Hall, Mark Wilson, Raul Vazquez Diaz","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/158035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/158035","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra-high bypass ratio turbofans offer significant reductions in fuel and pollution due to their higher propulsive efficiency. Short intakes might lead to a stronger fan-intake interaction, which creates uncertainty in stability at off-design conditions. Due to the prohibitive cost of full-scale experimental testing, subscale testing in wind tunnels is used to understand this behaviour. The low Reynolds number of subscale models results in unrepresentative laminar shock-boundary layer interactions. The boundary layer state thus needs to be conditioned to better represent full-scale transonic fans. This paper proposes the use of an inexpensive and robust flow control method for the suction side of a fan blade. Design guidelines are given for the location and height of the discrete roughness elements used to control the boundary layer state. This paper also presents a rapid experimental validation methodology to ensure and de-risk the application of the boundary layer trip to 3D rig blades. The experimental methodology is applied to a generic aerofoil representative of a fan tip section. The experimental method proves that it is possible to reproduce boundary layers and pressure distributions of a full-scale fan blade on a 1/10 subscale model. The results obtained confirm that the boundary layer trip method successfully promotes transition at the location representative of full-scale blades, avoiding unrepresentative laminar shock wave boundary layer interactions. This highlights the importance of conditioning boundary layers in low Reynolds number fan rig testing.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136176844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of fuel cell technologies and evaluation of their potential and challenges for electrified propulsion systems in commercial aviation","authors":"Stefan Kazula, Stefanie de Graaf, Lars Enghardt","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/158036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/158036","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an overview of the most relevant fuel cell types and identifies the most promising options for application in propulsion systems for commercial electrified aviation. The general design, operating principles and main characteristics of polymer electrolyte membrane, alkaline, direct methanol, phosphoric acid, molten carbonate and solid oxide fuel cells are described. Evaluation criteria are derived from aviation-specific requirements for the application of fuel cells in electrified aircraft. Based on these criteria, the presented fuel cell types are evaluated by means of a weighted point rating. The results of this evaluation reveal the high potential for application of solid oxide, low-temperature and high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Design challenges of all fuel cell types are being emphasised, for instance, concerning cold start, cooling and supply of pressurised air.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136174943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Validation and verification of RANS solvers for TUDa-GLR-OpenStage transonic axial compressor","authors":"Xiao He, Mingmin Zhu, Kailong Xia, Klausmann Fabian, Jinfang Teng, Mehdi Vahdati","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/158034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/158034","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a comprehensive validation and verification study of turbomachinery Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes flow solvers on the transonic axial compressor TUDa-GLR-OpenStage. Two commercial solvers namely Ansys CFX and Numeca FineTurbo are adopted to provide the benchmark solutions, which can be used for verification of other RANS solvers in the future. Based on these solvers, five sets of grids, two advection schemes (i.e., central difference and second-order upwind), four turbulence models (i.e., SA, SA-RC, SST and EARSM) and two rotor-stator interface models (i.e., mixing plane and sliding plane) are investigated to quantify their effects on predicting the performance and the flow field of the compressor stage. Results show that the choices of grid density and turbulence model are most sensitive to the prediction, leading to 5% and 7% variation in compressor performance characteristics, respectively. Regarding the choice of grid density, a method to estimate the grid discretization error is demonstrated, which is transferrable to other cases. Regarding the choice of turbulence model, the EARSM model is found overall most accurate among the investigated models, and the limitations and deficiencies of the rest models are discussed in detail based on the analysis of the mean flow fields and the eddy viscosity fields. The grids and the major CFD results presented in this work are open-accessed to the community for further research. The results and discussions presented in this paper provide a useful reference for future practices of RANS simulations for compressors.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135743532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Numerical investigations on the unsteady leakage flow and heat transfer characteristics of the turbine blade squealer tip","authors":"Shijie Jiang, Zhigang Li, Jun Li, Liming Song","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/157176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/157176","url":null,"abstract":"The unsteady leakage flow and heat transfer characteristics of the turbine blade squealer tip was numerically investigated using three-dimensional Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Naiver-Stokes (URANS) and standard k-ω turbulence model. The numerical simulated heat transfer coefficients of the turbine blade tip were well agreement with the experimental data. The accuracy of the numerical method was validated. The steady and unsteady leakage flow and heat transfer coefficient of the turbine blade squealer tip with and without film cooling was conducted. The unsteady leakage flow and heat transfer characteristics of the turbine blade squealer tip with film cooling design at three different blow ratios was numerically investigated. The obtained results show that the corner vortex and scraping vortex near the pressure side shows periodic fluctuation along the separation line of the leakage flow under the function of the pressure difference between the suction and pressure side of the blade tip, as well as the upstream vane unsteady wake flow. This unsteady flow behavior results in the fluctuation of the high heat transfer coefficients at the blade tip. The film cooling design along the camber line can effectively reduce the thermal load of the turbine blade squealer tip by comparison to without film cooling case. The time-averaged heat transfer coefficients of the turbine blade squealer tip reduce 9.0%, 12.4% and 13.2% at blowing ratio of .0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 comparison to without film cooling design in respective. The present work can provide the reference of the film cooling design for the turbine blade squealer tip.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135323557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigation of coupled radiation-conduction heat transfer in cylindrical systems by discontinuous spectral element method","authors":"Jiazi Zhao, Yasong Sun, Yifang Li, Changhao Liu","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/156350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/156350","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, in order to achieve higher efficiency in aero-engines, the increase of turbine inlet temperature in aero-engine is in urgent need. At present, the turbine inlet temperature is around 2,000 K, which means the radiation and coupled radiation-conduction heat transfer play more and more important roles in hot section of aero-engines. As we all konw, considering the cylindrical symmetry of aero-engines. It is convenient to adopt the cylindrical coordinate to simplify the description of these systems, such as annular combustor, exhaust nozzle, etc. In this paper, Discontinuous Spectral Element Method (DSEM) is extended to solve the radiation and coupled radiation-coduction heat transfer in cylindrical coordinate system. Both the spatial and angular computational domains of radiative transfer equation (RTE) are discretized and solved by DSEM. For coupled radiation-conduction heat transfer problem, Discontinuous Spectral Element Method-Spectral Element Method (DSEM-SEM) scheme is used to avoid using two sets of grid which would cause the increase of computational cost and the decrease of accuracy. Then, the effects of various geometric and thermal physical parameters are comprehensively investigated. Finally, these methods are further extended to 2D cylindrical system.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41970774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of scaling laws on flow and combustion characteristics of lean premixed swirl burners","authors":"Wenda Xie, Ting Shi, B. Ge, S. Zang","doi":"10.33737/jgpps/156121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33737/jgpps/156121","url":null,"abstract":"Modern heavy gas turbine combustors are always huge, so it is difficult and costly to do experiment. Thus, geometry scaling method has come into sight. In this paper, based on a single lean premixed swirl burner, validated computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model was used to study the effects of different scaling laws on various scalling models from 1/2 to 1/10. Experimental study on prototype combustor and the 3/5 scale model under full operating condition is also carried out to verify the NOx emission under different laws. Results showed that DaI scaling law was able to maintain good similarity under combustion state when scaling factor = 1/2–1/5, while Re scaling law would bring significant changes on flow and flame characteristics. The emission of NOx is also similar to prototype by using Dai law. But Re law could keep flow characteristics under non-combustion state. It is suggested that Dai law is suitable for lean premixed swirl combustor geometry scaling.","PeriodicalId":53002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45775813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}