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Flow and performance characteristics of twin-entry radial turbine under full and extreme partial admission conditions

Hajilouy Benisi, A ; Sharif University of Technology

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1007/s00419-008-0295-5
  3. Abstract:
  4. This paper presents numerical and experimental investigation of the performance and internal flow field characteristics of twin-entry radial inflow turbines at full and extreme partial admission conditions. The turbine is tested on a turbocharger test facility, which was developed for small and medium size turbochargers. Experimental results show that the lowest efficiency corresponds to extreme conditions. Therefore, flow field analyzing is employed to consider these conditions. The flow pattern in the volute and impeller of a twin-entry turbine is analyzed using an in-house fully three-dimensional viscous flow solver. The computational performance results are compared with the experimental results and good agreement is found. The flow field at the outlet of the turbine is investigated using a five-hole pressure probe; the numerical results are also compared with experimental measurements at the outlet of the rotor. For the volute, results show that lowest entropy gain factor corresponds to the extreme conditions, particularly when shroud side entry is fully closed. At the inlet of the rotor for equal admission conditions, the incidence angle is mostly in the optimum values. However, large variation in the incidence angle is seen in the extreme conditions, which lead to larger incidence losses and consequently a lower efficiency. In addition, entropy distribution contours corresponding to the exit plane are considered. For full admission, the location of low entropy gain factor at this plane occupies a region near the shroud side of suction surface as well as near the hub side of the pressure surface that corresponds to a region of high absolute flow angle. However, for the extreme cases, the low entropy gain factor occupies a relatively larger region near the shroud side than full admission. So, higher loss generation is noted at the extreme cases. Moreover, this entropy gain factor region is increased when shroud side entry is fully closed
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  6. Computational performance ; Entropy distribution ; Entropy gain ; Exit planes ; Experimental investigations ; Experimental measurements ; Extreme case ; Extreme conditions ; Flow angles ; Full and partial admission conditions ; Incidence angles ; Internal flow field ; Loss generation ; Low entropy ; Medium size ; Numerical results ; Optimum value ; Performance characteristics ; Pressure probes ; Pressure surface ; Radial inflow turbine ; Radial turbines ; Suction surfaces ; Twin-entry radial turbine ; Engines ; Entropy ; Flow fields ; Flow patterns ; Superchargers ; Test facilities ; Turbogenerators ; Turbines
  7. Source: Archive of Applied Mechanics ; Volume 79, Issue 12 , 2009 , Pages 1127-1143 ; 09391533 (ISSN)
  8. URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00419-008-0295-5