A strategy for multi-point shape optimization of turbine stages in three-dimensional flow

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 7, Issue PART A, 2009, Pages 489-502

  Arabnia, Mohammad ^a   Ghaly, Wahid ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5-DESIGN; ADVERSE EFFECT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BLADE LEAN; COMMERCIAL PACKAGES; DESIGN VARIABLES; ISENTROPIC EFFICIENCY; MULTIPOINT; OPERATING RANGES; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; RATIONAL BEZIER CURVES; RESPONSE SURFACE APPROXIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TURBINE PERFORMANCE; TURBINE STAGES; WEIGHTED SUM;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESIGN; GAS TURBINES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77953198717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2009-59708     Document Type: Conference Paper

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