Design method of guide vane for Wells turbine

Guide vanes are installed in the Wells turbine in order to improve its efficiency, self-rotating characteristics and off design performance with stall. This work attempts to explain the role of these guide vanes on the basis of momentum theory. It is shown that the upstream vanes are more effective in enhancing efficiency than the downstream ones. A design method for guide vanes is suggested based on experimental data and potential theory. Experimental studies carried out by the author confirm the theory proposed.     

Computed effect of guide vane shape on performance of impulse turbine for wave energy conversion

This paper deals with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis on effect of guide vane shape on performance of impulse turbine for wave energy conversion. Initially, experiments have been conducted on the impulse turbine to validate the present CFD method and to analyse the aerodynamics in rotor and guide vanes, which demonstrates the necessity to improve the guide vanes shape. The results showed that the downstream guide vanes make considerable total pressure drop leads low performance of the turbine and hence three‐dimensional (3‐D) inlet and downstream guide vanes have been designed based on well‐known vortex theory to improve the efficiency of the turbine. In order to prove the improvement in efficiency due to 3‐D guide vanes, CFD analysis has been made on impulse turbine with 2‐D and 3‐D guide vanes for various flow coefficients. As a result, it is seen that the present CFD model can predict the experimental values with reasonable accuracy. Also, it is showed from the numerical results that the efficiency of the turbine can be improved by average of 4.5 percentage points by incorporating 3‐D guide vanes instead of 2‐D guide vanes. The physical reason for improvement in efficiency of the turbine due to 3‐D guide vanes has been explained with the CFD flow insight pictures. As the turbine operates in fluctuating flow conditions, the performance of the turbine with 2‐D and 3‐D guide vanes have been calculated numerically using quasi‐steady analysis. Furthermore, the performance of the turbine has been predicted for one year based on Irish wave climate to show the feasibility of using 3‐D guide vanes in actual sea wave conditions. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Experimental studies on effect of guide vane shape on performance of impulse turbine for wave energy conversion

This paper presents the experimental results of effect of guide vane shape on performance of an impulse turbine for wave energy conversion. Two types of guide vanes are considered in the present study: two-dimensional (2D) guide vanes and three-dimensional (3D) guide vanes. The previous investigations by the authors revealed that the 2D guide vanes cause large recirculation zones at leading edge of downstream guide vanes, which affect the performance of turbine considerably. In order to improve the performance of turbine, three-dimensional guide vanes are designed based on free-vortex theory. Detailed aerodynamic and performance tests have been conducted on impulse turbine with the two types of guide vanes. The experiments have been conducted under various inlet conditions such as steady, sinusoidal and random (real Sea) flows. From the results, it was proved that the efficiency of impulse turbine has been improved for 4.5% points due to 3D guide vanes. The hysteric characteristic has been noticed from the experimental results of impulse turbine with sinusoidal and random flow inlet conditions. Furthermore, it was investigated that the performance of turbine is considerably more during deceleration of inlet flow than the acceleration in a half cycle of sinusoidal wave.     

分流导叶垂直轴风力机气动性能研究

为提高垂直轴风力机气动性能,提出一种随相位角变化而改变相对夹角的分流导叶结构。以NACA0021为基础翼型,采用计算流体力学方法对分流导叶作用下垂直轴风力机风能利用系数、单叶片瞬时转矩、压力系数及速度场进行数值分析。结果表明：静态和动态分流导叶均可提高垂直轴风力机气动性能,且动态分流导叶提升效果更为显著;相较于静态分流导叶,动态分流导叶垂直轴风力机在尖速比为2.33时风能利用系数最高可提升23%,在尖速比为2.03时静态分流导叶垂直轴风力机较原始垂直轴风力机风能利用系数提高37%;分流导叶也可使最佳尖速比前移,稳定叶片转矩波动,提升垂直轴风力机的运行稳定性。     

Cooling system optimisation of turbine guide vane

This paper discuses the problem of cooling system optimisation within a gas turbine vane. The analysis involves the optimisation of size and location of internal cooling passages within the vane. Cooling is provided with ten circular passages and heat is transported only convectively. The task is approached in 3D configuration. Each passage is fed with cooling air of constant parameters at the inlet. Also a constant pressure drop is assumed along the passage length. The thermal boundary conditions in passages varied with diameter and local vane temperature (passage wall temperature). The analysis is performed by means of the evolutionary approach for the optimisation task and FEM for the heat transfer predictions within the component. The optimisation is realised with genetic algorithm where two ways of individual (cooling system candidate) representations are used and juxtaposed. These are the classical binary representation of the design variables and the floating point form. The results show some potential stored in a vane cooling system. Appropriate passage distribution makes it possible to improve the operation condition for highly loaded thermal components. Also the comparison between binary versus floating point representation of the design variables show some superiority of the latter.     

Effect of diffuser vane shape on the performance of a centrifugal compressor stage

The present paper reports the results of experimental investigations on the effect of diffuser vane shape on the performance of a centrifugal compressor stage.These studies were conducted on the chosen stage having a backward curved impeller of 500 mm tip diameter and 24.5 mm width and its design flow coefficient is Фd=0.0535.Three different low solidity diffuser vane shapes namely uncambered aerofoil,constant thickness flat plate and circular arc cambered constant thickness plate were chosen as the variants for diffuser vane shape and all the three shapes have the same thickness to chord ratio(t/c=0.1).Flow coefficient,polytropic efficiency,total head coefficient,power coefficient and static pressure recovery coefficient were chosen as the parameters for evaluating the effect of diffuser vane shape on the stage performance.The results show that there is reasonable improvement in stage efficiency and total head coefficient with the use of the chosen diffuser vane shapes as compared to conventional vaneless diffuser.It is also noticed that the aero foil shaped LSD has shown better performance when compared to flat plate and circular arc profiles.The aerofoil vane shape of the diffuser blade is seen to be tolerant over a considerable range of incidence.     

Effects of a turbine guide vane on hydrogen-air rotating detonation wave propagation characteristics

The rotating detonation engine is a new machine that can generate thrust via continuous rotating detonation waves (RDWs). In this study, experiments were performed on a structure combining a rotating detonation combustor (RDC) and a turbine guide vane to investigate the propagation characteristic of hydrogen-air RDW. The results showed that the velocity of detonation wave initially increased and then decreased with the increase of equivalence ratio, and it got a velocity of 84% Chapman-Jouguet value. The velocity of detonation wave generally rose by 4.31% comparing with the no guide vane tests, while the scope of steady-operation state became narrow. The oscillation pressure was reduced by 64% after passing through the guide vane, and the magnitude of pressure was only 0.4 bar at the guide vane exit. Meanwhile, part of the shock wave was reflected back to combustor resulting in some small pressure disturbances, and the propagation mode of reflected wave was related to the propagation direction of RDW.     

Effect of Guide Vanes on the Performance of a Variable Chord Self—Rectifying Air Turbine

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Effect of interior guide tubes in cross‐flow turbine runner on turbine performance

The cross‐flow turbine has attracted much attention as a source of hydropower generation for small and micro‐systems, especially for low head establishments. Such turbines have a distinct advantage of lower initial and operating costs over other small scale turbines, but their efficiency is lower than others. Efficiency predictions of these turbines are generally based on the assumption that the entire flow crosses from the first stage to the second stage of the turbine runner. In this study, interior guide tubes were designed and used inside the runner of a cross‐flow turbine to collect and guide the crossing flow towards the second stage of the runner. The interior guide tubes were designed on the basis of observed flow patterns inside the runner. Experimentally, three different types of tubes were tested. The laboratory tests were conducted to calculate the turbine efficiency with different gate openings of nozzle and different positions of interior guide tubes. Results of this work with and without interior tubes have been presented in this paper. When the experiments were done with and without interior guide tubes, it has been found that turbine efficiency with the interior guide tube decreased about 5 per cent. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Influence of strength differential effect on material effort of a turbine guide vane based on thermoelastoplastic analysis

The strength differential (SD) effect has been observed in many iron-based metals such as 4310, 4330, maraging steel, and HY80 steels as well as titanium, aluminium 2024-T351, magnesium, and nickel-based super alloys such as aged Inconel 718. Moreover, the SD effect increases with temperature. The Huber–Mises–Hencky (HMH) J₂ yield condition is insu?cient to simulate the response of metals that exhibit the SD effect. Our work demonstrates the importance of taking into account the SD effect during strength analysis of turbine components. Two yield conditions are considered: the HMH condition and the SD-dependent Burzynski condition. The equivalent stresses produced by these conditions in the elastic state are compared. Plastic zone areas and effective strain values predicted by the two conditions are compared. Our investigation was performed based on thermal-fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis of a turbine guide vane made of a nickel-based super alloy that exhibits the SD effect. Conjugate heat transfer analysis was performed, and then elastoplastic stress analysis was performed with boundary conditions obtained from the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. The paraboloid Burzynski yield condition was implemented in an FE code. Implementation was based on the Euler backward method with consistency tangent moduli evaluated in the explicit form.     

余速损失对Wells透平性能影响

利用实验方法系统研究了稳态流动中威尔斯透平的速度场、压力场的变化规律，并利用实验数据分析了余速损失对威尔斯透平性能的影响。分析结果指出，当进气迎角较大时，余速损失对透平性能的影响几乎可以忽略；随着进气迎角的减小（wells透平逐渐过渡到正常工作区内），余速损失对透平性能的影响略有增加。针对这一现象，就如何改进透平结构以降低余速损失的方法进行了讨论。     

变几何涡轮可调导叶瞬时转动气动特性研究

为探究单级变几何涡轮(VGT)在导叶转动过程中的过渡态性能,对某动力涡轮进行了非定常数值计算,应用动网格技术实现导叶转角的改变,并对导叶通道开大或关小过渡过程中涡轮性能进行了分析。结果表明：导叶转角从0°变化到-5°时,单级涡轮效率逐渐下降1.6%,从0°变化到6°时,效率逐渐提高0.5%;质量流量和导叶出口绝对气流角随转角改变接近线性变化,而动叶出口相对气流角、熵增、效率和导叶出口总压损失等随转角改变呈抛物线型变化;过渡态下导叶流场内损失变化主要受上、下端壁处间隙泄漏涡影响,动叶出口熵增变化规律主要受动叶吸力侧泄漏涡和下部通道涡影响,其中下部通道涡的改变是引起熵增变化的主要原因。     

风力机加V型小翼后的性能变化

试验和数值模拟证明,在风力机叶片的叶尖添加小翼,可以提高风能转化效率。为了清楚地了解小翼对风力机动力放大的影响,文章基于叶轮周围流场的数值模拟结果,分析了加V型小翼和不加小翼的风力机流场-速度场和压力场特性。可以看出,小翼对风力机叶片叶端的影响较大,风力机叶尖的漩涡强度降低,能量转换效率提高。     

径向导叶与空间导叶的优劣分析与试验

对某一参数的节段式多级泵导叶进行研究。通过数值模拟对比分析传统的径向导叶(正、反导叶)与空间导叶对泵性能的影响并进行试验验证。以通用CFD软件NUMECA为计算平台,分别对叶轮加径向导叶及空间导叶流场进行分析,发现空间导叶在大流量区容易获得较好性能,但在小流量区损失较大,扬程曲线容易出现驼峰。在小流量区径向导叶性能要优于空间导叶。     

The performance of Wells turbine under bi-directional airflow

This paper presents the performance of a Wells turbine operating under unsteady bi-directional airflow conditions. In this study, four kinds of blade profile were selected, NACA0020, NACA0015, CA9 and HSIM 15-262123-1576. The experiments have been carried out for two solidities under sinusoidal and irregular unsteady flow conditions based on Irish waves (Site2). It was found that for a Wells turbine operating under bi-directional air flow, the rotor geometry preferred is the blade profile of CA9 with rotor solidity σ=0.64. In addition, the efficiency curve of the Wells turbine under unidirectional flow conditions fails to present the rapid rise in the instantaneous efficiency which occurs at low flow coefficient of bi-directional flow condition. A comparative analysis between the numerical simulation results and experimental results was carried out. As a result, an excellent agreement was found between the numerical and experimental results. In addition, the effect of blade profile and rotor solidity on hysteretic characteristics of the turbine has been clarified experimentally under bi-directional airflow.     

Numerical evaluation on single-row trenched-hole film cooling performances on turbine guide vane under engine-representative conditions

A numerical investigation is performed to study the effects of transverse trenches on the film cooling performances of single row film cooling holes on the turbine guide vane, under the engine-representative conditions. Two trenches are investigated in the current study, including a conventional straight trench and a novel serrated trench, both having the same slot width of 2.5d and depth of 0.75d. With the presence of trenches, the kidney vortices are effectively destroyed at the suction side, replaced by a pair of secondary vortices originating from the edge of trench slot, with a sense of rotation opposite to the kidney-vortex pair. However, at the pressure side, the kidney vortices remain clearly in the trenched-hole cases. The roles of trenched-hole on the film cooling enhancement behave more pronounced on the pressure surface when compared to the respective one on the suction surface. On the pressure surface, the serrated trench displays a more obvious role in the film cooling enhancement when compared to the straight trench. Combined with the effects of trenched-hole on the enthalpy loss coefficient, it is suggested that the trenches are more reasonably used on the pressure surface.     

Experimental and computational analysis on guide vane losses of impulse turbine for wave energy conversion

This paper deals with the detailed flow analysis of impulse turbine with experimental and computed results for wave energy power conversion. Initially, several turbulence models have been used in two-dimensional (2-D) computational fluid dynamic (CFD) analysis to find a suitable model for this kind of slow speed unconventional turbine. Experiments have been conducted to validate the CFD results and also to analyze the aerodynamics at various stations of the turbine. The three-dimensional (3-D) CFD model with tip clearance has been generated to predict the internal flow and to understand the effect of tip clearance leakage flow on behavior of the turbine in design and off-design conditions. As a result, it is found from the 2-D results that the comparison between computed and experimental data is good, qualitatively and the turbulence model, standard k–ε can predict the experimental values reasonably well, especially the efficiency of the turbine. Experimental results reveal that the downstream guide vanes are more responsible for low efficiency of the turbine and it is measured that 21% average pressure is lost due to downstream guide vanes. It is proved from the 3-D CFD model with tip clearance that it can predict the experimental values quantitatively and qualitatively. Furthermore, it is estimated from the computed results that the efficiency of the turbine has been reduced about 4%, due to tip clearance leakage flow at higher flow coefficients.     

Performance of Wells Turbine with Guide Vanes for Wave Energy Conversion

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Effect of guide vanes on the performance of a self-rectifying air turbine with constant and variable chord rotors

A Wells turbine is a self-rectifying air flow turbine capable of converting pneumatic power of the periodically reversing air stream in Oscillating Water Column into mechanical energy. The Wells turbine has inherent disadvantages; lower efficiency, poorer starting characteristics, higher axial force and low tangential force in comparison with conventional turbines. Guide vanes before and after the rotor suggest a means to improve the tangential force, hence its efficiency. Experimental investigations are carried out on a Wells turbine with the constant chord and variable chord blade rotors fitted with inlet and outlet guide vanes to understand the aerodynamics. Experiments were also conducted for the above said rotors with various stagger angles to validate the design stagger angle. In addition, the starting and running characteristics of the rotors have been studied and compared with the case without guide vanes. Studies were done at various flow coefficients covering the entire range of flow coefficients over which the turbine is operable. The efficiency, starting characteristics of the turbines with guide vanes have improved when compared with the respective turbines without guide vanes.     

Numerical investigation on the effect of blade sweep on the performance of Wells turbine

A Wells turbine is one of the simplest and promising self-rectifying air turbines which is basic to the needs of the near future and likely to be economically viable. With the recent development in computer hardware and software, it has now become practicable to conduct a reasonable computation of three-dimensional turbulent flows through complex geometry. To investigate the effect of blade sweep on the performance of the Wells turbine, the numerical investigation was carried out under steady flow condition with a fully 3-D Navier–Stokes code for two kinds of blades, NACA0020 and CA9. As a result, it was found that the performance of the Wells turbine is considerably influenced by the blade sweep. The optimum blade sweep ratio (f=0.35) for the NACA0020 was found. This value is just the same as one obtained experimentally by the authors in the past. It was also found that the overall turbine performance for the NACA0020 is better than that for the CA9. It was shown that the numerical method is able quite well to predict the effect of blade sweep of the Wells turbine. The detailed flow patterns for several blade sweeps were also shown and discussed in this paper.