Compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems offer significant potential as large-scale
physical energy storage technologies. Given the increasing global emphasis on carbon …

The centrifugal compressor is being utilized in both commercial and military applications;
however, the compressor performance is limited by flow instability affecting the stable …

Adjoint methods are widely used for turbomachinery aerodynamic shape optimization.
However, for industrial applications, the degradation of robustness and efficiency of adjoint …

A dynamic model that includes friction and tooth profile error excitation for herringbone
gears is proposed for the dynamic analysis of variable speed processes. In this model, the …

The subject of this paper is the experimental and numerical investigation of a state-of-the-art
high pressure centrifugal compressor stage with pipe diffuser for a jet engine application …

The work presents the results of a CFD campaign to investigate the impeller–diffuser
interaction in a centrifugal compressor, taking advantage of experimental data from the open …

Transonic centrifugal compressors are used with high-load turbochargers and turboshaft
engines. These compressors usually have a vaned diffuser to increase the efficiency and the …

Steady computational fluid dynamics solvers based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier–
Stokes equations are the primary workhorses for turbomachinery aerodynamic analysis due …

Numerical simulation of three-dimensional flow in a one-stage centrifugal compressor with a
diffuser of variable geometry has been performed using the ANSYS CFX 10 code. The …

Although desired cones can be manufactured by kinematical conical roll bending, less
manufacturing cost is still largely required. This paper presents the modelling and simulation …