The current generation of axial turbomachines is the culmination of decades of experience, and detailed understanding of the underlying flow physics has been a key factor for achieving high efficiency and reliability. Driven by advances in numerical methods and relentless growth in computing power, computational fluid dynamics has increasingly provided insights into the rich fluid dynamics involved and how it relates to loss generation. This article presents some of the complex flow phenomena occurring in bladed components of gas turbines and illustrates how simulations have contributed to their understanding and the challenges they pose for modeling. The interaction of key aerodynamic features with deterministic unsteadiness, caused by multiple blade rows, and stochastic unsteadiness, i.e., turbulence, is discussed. High-fidelity simulations of increasingly realistic configurations and models improved with help of machine learning promise to further grow turbomachinery performance and reliability and, thus, help fluid mechanics research have a greater industrial impact.
Sandberg, Richard D. and Michelassi, Vittorio. "Fluid Dynamics of Axial Turbomachinery: Blade- and Stage-Level Simulations and Models." Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 54, no. 1, Jan. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-031221-105530
Sandberg, Richard D., & Michelassi, Vittorio (2022). Fluid Dynamics of Axial Turbomachinery: Blade- and Stage-Level Simulations and Models. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 54(1). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-031221-105530
Sandberg, Richard D., and Michelassi, Vittorio, "Fluid Dynamics of Axial Turbomachinery: Blade- and Stage-Level Simulations and Models," Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 54, no. 1 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-031221-105530
@article{osti_1983005,
author = {Sandberg, Richard D. and Michelassi, Vittorio},
title = {Fluid Dynamics of Axial Turbomachinery: Blade- and Stage-Level Simulations and Models},
annote = {The current generation of axial turbomachines is the culmination of decades of experience, and detailed understanding of the underlying flow physics has been a key factor for achieving high efficiency and reliability. Driven by advances in numerical methods and relentless growth in computing power, computational fluid dynamics has increasingly provided insights into the rich fluid dynamics involved and how it relates to loss generation. This article presents some of the complex flow phenomena occurring in bladed components of gas turbines and illustrates how simulations have contributed to their understanding and the challenges they pose for modeling. The interaction of key aerodynamic features with deterministic unsteadiness, caused by multiple blade rows, and stochastic unsteadiness, i.e., turbulence, is discussed. High-fidelity simulations of increasingly realistic configurations and models improved with help of machine learning promise to further grow turbomachinery performance and reliability and, thus, help fluid mechanics research have a greater industrial impact.},
doi = {10.1146/annurev-fluid-031221-105530},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1983005},
journal = {Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics},
issn = {ISSN 0066-4189},
number = {1},
volume = {54},
place = {United States},
publisher = {Annual Reviews},
year = {2022},
month = {01}}