The increasingly stringent requirements in terms of flexibility and efficiency for hydraulic
turbines pose new challenges for designers. Although computational fluid dynamics has …

The adjoint method for blade design optimization will be described in this two-part paper.
The main objective is to develop the capability of carrying out aerodynamic blading shape …

Inverse design is an important part of the initial design stage of blade profile, while the
traditional inverse design methods are highly dependent on design experience and physical …

The paper is a result of a research and development project aimed at developing a series of
types of high specific speed (90< n sQ< 100) Francis turbines. The inverse flow analysis …

One of the critical components in industrial gas turbines (IGT) is the turbine blade. The
design of turbine blades needs to consider multiple aspects like aerodynamic efficiency …

Constitutive model is the most commonly used method to describe the material deformation
behavior during machining process. This paper aims to investigate the material dynamic …

Hydraulic machinery with high performance is of great significance for energy saving. Its
design is a very challenging job for designers, and the inverse design method is a …

AERODYNAMIC analysis of the flow in the blade row passages of modern gas turbine
engines is routinely performed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). However …

The duct inverse design in fluid flow problems usually involves finding the wall shape
associated with a prescribed distribution of wall pressure or velocity. In this investigation, an …

In this investigation, the flexible string algorithm (fsa), used before for inverse design of
subsonic and supersonic ducts in compressible flows with and without normal shock, is …