Optimization and Model Validation of Transonic Compressors
Licentiate thesis, 2012

Economical aspects such as reduced specific fuel consumptions and ever growing environmental requirements on emissions and percieved noise levels, are the major drivers in the search for improvement of aircraft engines. For turbofan engines, the global trend is towards higher efficiency which is accomplished by increasing component efficiencies, the bypass ratio and overall pressure ratio while keeping the engine weight low. Concerning the low pressure system, the reduction in weight can be realized by decreasing the number of stages in the compressor. However by doing so, the aerodynamic load per stage must be increased in order to maintain the same pressure ratio. As the aerodynamic load increases, it becomes more difficult to maintain a high efficiency on the aerodynamic design point and keep a sufficiently high stability margin along the compressor working line. In this thesis a new design methodology, accounting for both efficiency and stability, is presented. In order to utilize the design process for industrial applications, the reduction in total design time and computational resources are also adressed. The validity of the presented analysis method is put to test by means of two validation cases. The first case is a transonic rotor in isolation and the second case is a three stage highly loaded transonic compressor.

compressor

optimization

design

metamodels

CFD

validation

multiobjective

MA
Opponent: Olivier Bron

Author

Lars R Ellbrant

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics

CFD optimization of a transonic compressor using multiobjective GA and metamodels

28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2012, ICAS 2012; Brisbane; Australia; 23 September 2012 through 28 September 2012,; Vol. 4(2012)p. 2698-2712

Paper in proceeding

Design of compressor blades considering efficiency and stability using CFD based optimization

ASME Turbo-expo 2012,; Vol. 8(2012)p. 371-382

Paper in proceeding

CFD validation of a high speed transonic 3.5 stage axial compressor

ISABE-2011,; (2011)

Other conference contribution

Areas of Advance

Transport

Energy

Infrastructure

C3SE (Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering)

Subject Categories

Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics

Technical report - Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

MA

Opponent: Olivier Bron

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10/6/2017