Comprehensive evaluations on performance and energy consumption of pre-swirl rotor–stator system in gas turbine engines

A Lin, G Liu, X Wang, Q Feng - Energy Conversion and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Pre-swirl system has an indispensable role to supply enough cooling air with appropriate
pressure, temperature, and mass flow rate to improve the life and the efficiency of turbine …

Evaluation of low power consumption and temperature drop potential in an aero-engine pre-swirl system for turbine performance improvement

J Ma, G Liu, J Li, C Wu, Y Zhang, A Lin - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Aero-engine pre-swirl system is an essential sub-system in favor of turbine rotor blade
cooling and turbine thermal efficient enhancement. This study proposed a novel problem …

Experimental and CFD analysis on the pressure ratio and entropy increment in a cover-plate pre-swirl system of gas turbine engine

G Liu, W Gong, H Wu, A Lin - Engineering Applications of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The pre-swirl system can offer cooling air to improve the extreme thermal shock to the
rotating turbine blades in a gas turbine engine. This study focuses on theoretical …

Prediction of the sealing flow effect on the temperature drop characteristics of a pre-swirl system in an aero-engine

G Liu, X Wang, W Gong, A Lin - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The sealing flow will inevitably affect the cooling airflow quality in a second air system of an
aero-engine. In this study, theoretical derivation and numerical simulation were conducted to …

Discharge coefficients of a preswirl system in secondary air systems

M Dittmann, T Geis, V Schramm… - J …, 2002 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The discharge behavior of a “direct-transfer” preswirl system has been investigated
experimentally. The influences of the pressure ratio and the swirl ratio as well as the …

Fluid dynamics of a pre-swirl rotor-stator system

Y Yan, MF Gord, GD Lock, M Wilson… - J …, 2003 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In a “direct-transfer” pre-swirl supply system, cooling air flows axially across the wheel-space
from stationary pre-swirl nozzles to receiver holes located at a similar radius in the rotating …

Design and performance analysis of a vane shaped rotating receiver hole in high radius pre-swirl systems for gas turbine cooling

Y Liu, B Yue, X Kong, H Chen, H Lu - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
In a pre-swirl cooling air delivery system for gas turbine, the function of rotating receiver hole
is to receive the highly swirled flow from pre-swirl nozzle and direct it to the turbine blade …

Theoretical and experimental evaluations of pre-swirl rotor-stator system with inner seal bypass configuration for turbine performance improvement

A Lin, G Liu, P Li, Z Zhang, Q Feng - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Pre-swirl system has strong potential to improve the cooling performance and service life of
high-pressure turbine rotor blades in gas turbine engines. This study is to evaluate and …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental study on the outlet flow field and cooling performance of vane-shaped pre-swirl nozzles in gas turbine engines

Y Liu, B Lu, X Kong, H Chen - Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The pre-swirl nozzles are a crucial part of gas turbine's cooling pre-swirl system, because
they directly affect the cooling performance of the system and the life of the turbine blades …

Some Current Research in Rotating‐Disc Systems

JM Owen, M Wilson - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Rotating‐disc systems are used to model the flow and heat transfer that occurs inside the
cooling‐air systems of gas‐turbine engines. In this paper, recent computational and …