Create Breakthrough Designs in Turbomachinery with Optimum Blade Loading
In the design of pump and fan impellers, the designer needs to meet many contrasting and multi-objective requirements. For example, in many cases the pump impeller is required to achieve higher efficiency and cavitation performance with a compact size and good stall performance. In order to meet these contrasting requirements, a design strategy is required that can consider a large part of the design space.
This paper explores the method for arriving at optimum blade loading in various applications. These applications include the suppression of secondary flows in mixed-flow and radial impellers, suppression of corner separation in pump vaned bowl diffusers, control of cavitation in pumps and noise reduction in an axial flow fan.
In this paper you'll discover:
- How a 3D Inverse Design approach can create breakthrough pump and fan designs
- How it develops designs that are able to meet contrasting requirements
- How Inverse Design opens up the design space and how it allows for general solutions that can be applied to similar applications regardless of size
