Turbocharger turbine rotor tip leakage loss and mass flow model valid up to extreme off-design conditions with high blade to jet speed ratio

[EN] Due to the power consumption restriction of the turbocharger compressor, common turbine maps are rather narrow. To extrapolate them, reliable physical submodels are needed that are valid for broad ranges. Plenty of research has been done referring to tip leakage losses in axial and traditional...

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Autores: Serrano, J.R.|||0000-0003-0692-3917, Navarro, Roberto|||0000-0003-2587-4954, García-Cuevas González, Luis Miguel|||0000-0001-9340-0617, Inhestern, Lukas Benjamin
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/122886
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/122886
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Radial turbine model
Tip leakage
Off-design
High BSR
CFD
Wide map
INGENIERIA AEROESPACIAL
MAQUINAS Y MOTORES TERMICOS
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Sumario:[EN] Due to the power consumption restriction of the turbocharger compressor, common turbine maps are rather narrow. To extrapolate them, reliable physical submodels are needed that are valid for broad ranges. Plenty of research has been done referring to tip leakage losses in axial and traditional radial turbomachinery. However, less effort has been put into the tip leakage analysis of radial turbocharger turbines, whose characteristics including high rotational speed and geometry are rather different. Commonly developed tip leakage loss models in radial turbines are mainly based on correlations with the rotational speed, while in axial turbomachinery they are mainly based on blade loading assumptions. Wide range computational fluid dynamics (CFD) data of a medium sized automotive turbine have been used to analyze tip leakage mass flow under extremely diverse running conditions. To be able to fit a model in a broad range of the map, blade loading and rotational speed have to be considered. A novel tip clearance model has been derived from the Navier Stokes Equations. The model owns a dependency on the rotational speed and the blade loading. With this approach CFD data have been fitted in a very good quality to model the tip leakage mass flow rate and tip leakage losses.