4 Replies Latest reply on Jul 17, 2014 12:55 AM by Jared Conway

Flow Simulation in Turbomachinery

AJAY SELVAM Jul 16, 2014 5:52 AM

Dear Fluid Experts,

Can you please add your views on how Flow simulation can be helpful with Turbines used in Industrial plant ?

consider a impulse/reaction turbine with multi-stages, can pressure drop be extracted across each stages ? if so, is cut-plot has to be used across each stage to note it manually...

Thanks,

Aj.

Re: Flow Simulation in Turbomachinery

Nicholas Luyster Jul 16, 2014 3:46 PM (in response to AJAY SELVAM)

Hi Ajay,

You can do what you are trying to achieve. However, you will probably be disapointed once you:

A. See how many simulations you will have to run

and

B. See what sort of assumptions you will need to make in order to get any sorts of results

It's certainly worth asking your VAR to see what they can do but I would first see how other folks do it in this industry.

All the best,

Nick Luyster
Gosimulation.com
Online SolidWorks Simulation Training
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Re: Flow Simulation in Turbomachinery

Jared Conway Jul 16, 2014 7:36 PM (in response to AJAY SELVAM)

is this what you're talking about?

http://www.slideshare.net/GlistenAngel/impulse-and-reaction-turbines

i so, won't be a fit for flow simulation.

flow simulation rotating regions are really built for things like pumps
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- Re: Flow Simulation in Turbomachinery
  
  AJAY SELVAM Jul 17, 2014 12:26 AM (in response to Jared Conway)
  
  Dear Nicholas,
  
  What sort of assumptions should we consider in plotting pressure drop across stages?
  
  Dear Conway,
  
  Thanks for sharing, its the same I am expecting to do in Flow SImulation...
  Are there any reagrding Reaction Turbine, we can use Flow Simulation ?
  
  Thanks,
  
  -Ajay.S
  
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    Jared Conway Jul 17, 2014 12:55 AM (in response to AJAY SELVAM)
    
    tell me more about reaction turbines, get me some pictures, tell me what you want to learn
    
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