Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power: Recent submissions
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On Leakage Flows in a Liquid Hydrogen Multistage Pump for Aircraft Engine Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A comprehensive operational characterization of a representative, liquid hydrogen (LH2) aircraft engine pump, a key enabler for future hydrogen aviation, is presented in this work. The implications of leakage flows are ... -
Dynamic Performance Analysis of a Turbocharged PEMFC System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Proton-exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) systems are one of the most promising technologies for the decarbonization of the transportation and power sectors. This article investigates the dynamics of an innovative ... -
Cooling System of a High-Pressure Centrifugal Compressor: Development and Impact on Wheel Temperatures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)High power density, low fuel consumption, and a compact design with competitive total costs of ownership are key requirements for internal combustion engines for conventional fuels and carbon-free or carbon-neutral future ... -
Bayesian Data Assimilation in Cold Flow Experiments on an Industrial Thermoacoustic Rig
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)We assimilate experimental data from nonreacting flow in the SCARLET (SCaled Acoustic Rig for Low Emission Technologies) test rig using physics-based Bayesian inference. We model the complex geometry of the combustor with ... -
Inferring Flame Transfer Functions of Turbulent Conical Flames From Pressure Measurements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)We use approximate Bayesian inference, accelerated by adjoint methods, to construct a quantitatively accurate model of the thermoacoustic behavior of a weakly turbulent conical flame in a duct. We first perform a series ... -
Vaneless Diffuser Modeling for Real Gas Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Flows: Need for a Data-Driven Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this work, a real gas-based vaneless diffuser (VLD) differential equation model is presented. The model requires the specification of the skin friction coefficient as input. However, the use of standard VLD friction ... -
Aerodynamic Study of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine in Surge Motion Under Angular Speed and Blade Pitch Controls
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) experience dynamic conditions due to platform motion, requiring specific control strategies to mitigate loads and promote the wake diffusion improving overall wind farm efficiency. ... -
Tribological Performance of Soft Magnetic Composite Materials for Gas Turbine Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Soft magnetic composites (SMCs) have gained attention in the last years of their usage in more compact and powerful electromechanical systems. These materials are used to combine the application of metallic material to the ... -
Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Additively Manufactured Extreme Environment Heat Exchangers for Waste Heat Recuperation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Advanced Brayton cycle-based waste heat recovery (WHR) system for a targeted energy efficiency of 20–50% and gravimetric power densities of 1.6–1.9 kW/kg are attractive propositions for future airplane designs. One of the ... -
Probabilistic Modeling Geometric Tolerance and Low Cycle Fatigue Life of Gas Turbine Compressor Blade
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper presents a probabilistic low cycle fatigue (LCF) assessment for geometric tolerances on high load contact surfaces of gas turbine compressor blades. The typical patterns of the geometric deviations for the root ... -
A Large Eddy Simulation Study on Hydrogen Microjets in Hot Vitiated Crossflow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this paper, the results of a large eddy simulation (LES) study on hydrogen microjets (dj ∼ 0.5 mm) injected into a hot (1600 K) vitiated crossflow at different angles, namely, normal (90 deg) and inclined jet (30 deg), ... -
Model-Based Inference of Flame Transfer Matrices From Acoustic Measurements in an Aero-Engine Test Rig
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Flame dynamics, represented as a flame transfer matrix (FTM), is not directly measurable in test rigs and must be deduced from transfer matrix measurements of the combustion system. The burner-flame transfer matrix (BFTM) ... -
A Parametric Study on NOx Emissions From Ammonia Containing Product Gas in Rich–Quench–Lean Combustion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Due to climate change, there has been an increasing demand for fuels that can accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy. Humidified product gas obtained from gasifying biomass is emerging as a promising ... -
Aeroelastic Influence of Blade-Shaft Coupling in a 1 1/2-Stage Axial Compressor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The design process of turbomachinery is often constraint by aeroelastic phenomena. The design choices are limited by possible structural failure, which can be caused by high vibration amplitudes. In particular, damping has ... -
Transient Shutdown Cooling Simulation of a Gas Turbine Test Rig Configuration Under Ventilated Natural Convection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A transient simulation of shutdown cooling for a gas turbine test rig configuration under ventilated natural convection has been successfully demonstrated using a coupled aerothermal approach. Large eddy simulation (LES) ... -
Combining Machine Learning, Embedded Sensor Networks and Additive Burner Design for Combustor Structural Health Monitoring
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The crystAIr project is about sensitizing burners for flame monitoring based on a discrete number of dynamic pressure sensors and a machine learning approach. The context is the development of better aircraft engines and ... -
Model Predictive Control Strategies for Turbine Electrified Energy Management
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The increasing electrification of aircraft propulsion systems is leading to new control architectures being developed to address integration between electric machines (EMs) and gas-based turbine engines. For hybrid-electric ... -
A Low Mach Preconditioned Harmonic Balance Solver for Cavity Flutter Computations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Labyrinth seal flutter is a critical phenomenon in turbomachinery, as it can lead to severe structural vibrations and potential component damage. Accurate prediction and mitigation of flutter are paramount to ensuring the ... -
Development of a Hydrogen Microgas Turbine Combustor: NOx Emissions and Secondary Air Injection
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)On the way to defossilization, green hydrogen is a promising way to substitute natural gas (NG) and oil in the gas turbine industry. In the scope of the H2mGT project, a microgas turbine (mGT) burner with 100% hydrogen ... -
Techno-Economic Analysis of the Solid Oxide Semiclosed CO2 Cycle for Different Plant Sizes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This work presents a detailed techno-economic evaluation of the solid oxide semiclosed CO2 (SOS-CO2) cycle, a hybrid semiclosed cycle with solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) developed by Politecnico di Milano. for different ...