[HTML][HTML] Flow irreversibility and heat transfer effects on turbine efficiency

LB Inhestern, D Peitsch, G Paniagua - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The quantification of the flow irreversibilities is crucial to developing future turbomachinery.
Traditionally, design correlations and efficiencies are based on comparisons to isentropic …

Development and validation of a radial turbine efficiency and mass flow model at design and off-design conditions

JR Serrano, FJ Arnau, LM García-Cuevas… - Energy Conversion and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Turbine performance at extreme off-design conditions is growing in importance for properly
computing turbocharged reciprocating internal combustion engines behaviour during urban …

Experimental approach for the characterization and performance analysis of twin entry radial-inflow turbines in a gas stand and with different flow admission …

JR Serrano, FJ Arnau, LM Gracía-Cuevas… - Applied Thermal …, 2019 - Elsevier
In an internal combustion engine, twin entry turbine operates under different unequal
admission conditions by feeding the turbine with a dissimilar amount of flow in each entry for …

Turbocharger turbine rotor tip leakage loss and mass flow model valid up to extreme off-design conditions with high blade to jet speed ratio

JR Serrano, R Navarro, LM García-Cuevas… - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Due to the power consumption restriction of the turbocharger compressor, common turbine
maps are rather narrow. To extrapolate them, reliable physical submodels are needed that …

Experimental validation of a one-dimensional twin-entry radial turbine model under non-linear pulse conditions

JR Serrano, FJ Arnau… - … Journal of Engine …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents the experimental validation of a complete integrated one-dimensional
twin-scroll turbine model able to be used in reciprocating internal combustion engine …

An innovative losses model for efficiency map fitting of vaneless and variable vaned radial turbines extrapolating towards extreme off-design conditions

JR Serrano, FJ Arnau, LM García-Cuevas, LB Inhestern - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Pulsating flow in automotive turbocharger turbines makes it necessary to know performance
characteristics in difficult to measure off-design conditions. Physically based extrapolation …

A zonal approach for estimating pressure ratio at compressor extreme off-design conditions

J Galindo, R Navarro… - … Journal of Engine …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Zero-dimensional/one-dimensional computational fluid dynamics codes are used to
simulate the performance of complete internal combustion engines. In such codes, the …

A new approach to generate turbine map data in the sub-idle operation regime of gas turbines

JH Kim, TS Kim - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Gas turbines are likely to face critical situations such as compressor surge and stall in the
sub-idle operation region. Thus, it is important to predict the operation characteristics of gas …

Contribution to tip leakage loss modeling in radial turbines based on 3D flow analysis and 1D characterization

JR Serrano, R Navarro, LM García-Cuevas… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The characterization of tip leakage flow plays an important role for one-dimensional loss
modeling and design in radial turbine research. Tip leakage losses can be expressed as …

A Probabilistic Approach to Turbine Uncertainty

L Bhatnagar, G Paniagua… - … Expo: Power for …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Efficiency is an essential metric for assessing turbine performance. Modern turbines rely
heavily on numerical computational fluid dynamic (CFD) tools for design improvement. With …