Optimization Routine For Compressor Design Using Commercial Software

Abstract

Previous research at Naval Postgraduate School produced a design procedure for generating gas compressor rotor models using commercial software. This design procedure was improved upon by parameterizing the blade profiles as quadratic functions of axial distance and chord location. An objective function for compressor performance using pressure ratio, efficiency, and mass flow was formulated, which applied a holistic view of quantifying the value of a compressor design. An optimization algorithm was implemented within the procedure to seek an optimal design by generating a CAD model, performing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis, and iterating the design function constants toward an optimal solution. The routine found an optimal compressor design; however, inconsistencies in the CFD solution data prevented the routine from finding the expected global maximum.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1080013

Entities

People

  • Martin Brantner

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Back Pressure
  • Blade Tips
  • Compressors
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Dynamics
  • Efficiency
  • Equations
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Flow Rate
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Mass Flow
  • Optimization

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Aerodynamics.
  • Software Engineering.