Design optimization of a vane type pre-swirl nozzle

Autor: Jungsoo Lee, Hyungyu Lee, Hyunwoo Park, GeonHwan Cho, Donghwa Kim, Jinsoo Cho
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 164-179 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1994-2060
1997-003X
19942060
DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2020.1847199
Popis: Pre-swirl system is installed to minimize energy loss between the stationary and rotating parts of turbine secondary air system. Although various optimization studies were conducted to increase the pre-swirl efficiency, most of the studies were focused on a hole type pre-swirl nozzles. In this study, a vane type pre-swirl nozzle was optimized to increase mass flow rate and temperature drop for given boundary conditions. The system performance was analyzed by 3D CFD and the objective functions were used to maximize the discharge coefficient and the adiabatic effectiveness. After sensitivity analysis, seven design variables were chosen on the three planes of nozzle span-wise direction. The OLHD method was used to obtain the initial scattered test points, and the additional ones were supplied by the ALHD method. The Kriging model was constructed as the surrogate one, and refined iteratively until satisfying the convergence criteria between the estimated point and the CFD result. The optimized model improved the span-wise uniformity of the flow path and the discharge coefficient was increased by 2.57%, whilst the adiabatic effectiveness remained nearly constant. The performance was also analyzed for pressure ratio and off-design points, with the optimized model showing better performance at all boundary conditions.
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