Abstract: The present activity was carried out in the framework of the Clean Sky European Research Project ITURB (optimal highlift turbine blade aeromechanical design), aimed at designing and validating a turbine blade for a geared ...

Abstract: Airline companies are continuously demanding lowerfuelconsuming engines and this leads to investigating innovative configurations and to further improving single module performance. In this framework the low pressure turbine ...

Abstract: This paper discusses the importance of the unsteady interaction in transonic turbomachinery stages. Although the flow in a turbomachine is inherently unsteady, most current calculations for routine design work exploit the ...

Abstract: Due to the low level of profile losses reached in low-pressure turbines (LPT) for turbofan applications, a renewed interest is devoted to other sources of loss, e.g., secondary losses. At the same time, the adoption of ...

Abstract: The current industrial standard for numerical simulations of axial compressors is the steady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) approach. Besides the well-known limitations of mixing planes, namely their inherent ...

Abstract: In the present work, URANS simulations are presented to describe the unsteady interaction process between the flow ingested/ejected from a cavity system and the main flow evolving into a low-pressure turbine stage. Particular ...