Using genetic algorithms to improve the thermodynamic efficiency of gas turbines designed by traditional methods |
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| Authors: | Jose M Chaquet Enrique J Carmona Roque Corral |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Technology and Methods Dep., Industria de Turbo Propulsores S.A., Avda de Castilla 2, 28830, San Fernando de Henares, Madrid, Spain;2. Dpto. de Inteligencia Artificial, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain |
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| Abstract: | A method for optimizing the thermodynamic efficiency of aeronautical gas turbines designed by classical methods is presented. This method is based in the transformation of the original constrained optimization problem into a new constrained free optimization problem which is solved by a genetic algorithm. Basically, a set of geometric, aerodynamic and acoustic noise constraints must be fulfilled during the optimization process. As a case study, the thermodynamic efficiency of an already optimized by traditional methods real aeronautical low pressure turbine design of 13 rows has been successfully improved, increasing the turbine efficiency by 0.047% and reducing the total number of airfoils by 1.61%. In addition, experimental evidence of a strong correlation between the total number of airfoils and the turbine efficiency has been observed. This result would allow us to use the total number of airfoils as a cheap substitute of the turbine efficiency for a coarse optimization at the first design steps. |
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| Keywords: | Gas turbine Thermodynamic efficiency Genetic algorithm Throughflow Number of airfoils |
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