Periodic adjoints and anisotropic mesh adaptation in rotating frame for high-fidelity RANS turbomachinery applications

F Alauzet, L Frazza, D Papadogiannis - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
The scope of this paper is to demonstrate the viability and efficiency of metric-based
unstructured anisotropic mesh adaptation techniques to turbomachinery applications. The …

Validation and verification of RANS solvers for TUDa-GLR-OpenStage transonic axial compressor

X He, M Zhu, K Xia, KS Fabian, J Teng… - Journal of the Global …, 2023 - journal.gpps.global
This paper presents a comprehensive validation and verification study of turbomachinery
Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes flow solvers on the transonic axial compressor TUDa …

[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty analysis of impact of geometric variations on turbine blade performance

X Wang, Z Zou - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
It is important to accurately estimate the impact of manufacturing geometric variations on the
turbine aerodynamic performance for the engineering design and manufacture. In this …

ICSFoam: An OpenFOAM library for implicit coupled simulations of high-speed flows

S Oliani, N Casari, M Carnevale - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
When a strong coupling between the equations of a specific physical problem exists,
segregated solvers are likely to struggle or fail in finding the solution to the equation system …

[HTML][HTML] GALÆXI: Solving complex compressible flows with high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods on accelerator-based systems

M Kurz, D Kempf, MP Blind, P Kopper… - Computer Physics …, 2025 - Elsevier
This work presents GALÆXI as a novel, energy-efficient flow solver for the simulation of
compressible flows on unstructured hexahedral meshes leveraging the parallel computing …

Turbomachinery active subspace performance maps

P Seshadri, S Shahpar… - Journal of …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Turbomachinery active subspace performance maps are two-dimensional (2D) contour plots
that illustrate the variation of key flow performance metrics with different blade designs …

Effectively subsampled quadratures for least squares polynomial approximations

P Seshadri, A Narayan, S Mahadevan - SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty …, 2017 - SIAM
This paper proposes a new deterministic sampling strategy for constructing polynomial
chaos approximations for expensive physics simulation models. The proposed approach …

Novel compressor blade shaping through a free-form method

A John, S Shahpar, N Qin - Journal of …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper describes the use of the free-form-deformation (FFD) parameterization method to
create a novel blade shape for a highly loaded, transonic axial compressor. The novel …

Stability enhancement using a new combined casing treatment strategy in an ultra-highly loaded transonic compressor rotor

S Ding, S Chen, Z Li - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Low-reaction compressors are promising for achieving high loads but face severe flow
instability challenges. This study investigates a low-reaction transonic compressor rotor …

Analysis of the aerothermal performance of modern commercial high-pressure turbine rotors using different levels of fidelity

M Carta, S Shahpar, T Ghisu - … , Part A: Journal of Power and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In the field of design and optimization of sophisticated geometries such as film-cooled
turbine blades of modern jet engines, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation is …