Increasing flow efficiency of high-pressure and low-pressure steam turbine stages from numerical optimization of 3D blading

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-166

  Lampart, Piotr ^a   Yershov, Sergey ^b   Rusanov, Andrey ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FLUID FLOW MACHINERY   (Poland)

^b Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

3D blading; Computational fluid dynamics; Efficiency optimization; Steam turbine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; ROTORS; STATORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VELOCITY CONTROL; VISCOUS FLOW;

EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION; FLOW EFFICIENCY; NELDAR-MEAD METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) BLADING;

STEAM TURBINES;

EID: 12344250089     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052150512331315497     Document Type: Article

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