Weight Estimation Of Turboshaft Engines: Continuation in the development of WEST: a component based preliminary design and weight estimation tool for turbine engines

The need for more efficient aircraft has led to the conception of innovative engine configurations, such as the combined-cycle engine proposed by Delft University of Technology or the Water-enhanced turbofan developed by MTU and Pratt & Whitney. The evaluation of the potential benefits of these novel engine concepts requires detailed...

Radial Turbine-Diffuser Interaction: Effect of Tip Gap

This document contains the final Master Thesis Report to obtain the Master of Science on Aerospace Engineering (Flight Performance &amp; Propulsion - Propulsion &amp; Power) at the Delft University of Technology.<br/><br/>The research work focuses on characterizing the interaction of a radial inlet turbine with a downstream diffuser through the...

Aerodynamics of a 15-MW and a 5-MW Reference Wind Turbine Using Varying Fidelity Tools

The most effective way to decrease the cost of energy of wind turbines is to increase the rotor diameter. Therefore, this calls for the need of aerodynamic research on large wind turbines. This thesis project will tackle the topics addressed by the IEA Wind Task 47 which is focused on the aerodynamic analysis and comparison of the newly proposed...

Expansions in the Non-Ideal Compressible Flow Regime: A Numerical and Experimental Study

Organic Rankine Cycle systems are gaining increasing attention as a modular, cost-effective and decentralised thermal energy recovery solution. The design of an efficient expander in the ORC system is crucial to its rapid uptake by the industry. Compared to volumetric expanders, a radial turbine provides advantages in terms of flexibility and...

Aircraft Jet Engine Architecture Modeling: Creating a Benchmark Problem using a System Architecting Approach with Mixed-Discrete & Multi-Objective Capabilities

With an increasing complexity of systems, systematic design space exploration is required for fair analysis and comparison of architecture design options. However, there is still a need for a benchmark problem to support the development &amp; evaluation of optimization algorithms and system architecture design space modeling methods, and to...

Development of a design and sizing tool for conceptual turbofan engines

Increased public awareness and political concern about the environmental footprint of aviation have created very ambitious goals to reduce emissions in the future. This objective of this research project is to develop a multidisciplinary turbofan engine design and sizing tool for conceptual engine design. The tool will be used in a parametric...

Aeroacoustic Phenomenon in centrifugal compressors: A Lattice Boltzmann Method based approach

Flow unsteadiness caused by impeller rotation, vortex-shedding, secondary flows etc. can lead to the generation of acoustic waves within the turbomachinery cascade. This causes pressure loading on the impeller. When acoustic resonance occurs, i.e. the frequency of acoustic wave excitation matches with the structural natural frequencies of the...

Investigation of dense gas effects on transition to turbulence over a flat plate boundary layer

Laminar-turbulent transition (LTT) is the process through which smooth laminar flow transits into chaotic turbulent flow. Investigation of the paths taken to transit into turbulence is a front-runner among other methods followed to characterise turbulent flows. This is of particular importance in aerospace and energy industries for the design of...

Modeling Leakage Losses and Axial Thrust in Rocket Engine Turbopumps: Development of a numerical model

Large-scale liquid rocket engines require high-speed turbopumps to inject cryogenic propellants into the combustion chamber. Modeling the impact of secondary path and leakage flows on the performance and axial thrust of the pump is critical during the early design phase. Previous studies derived simplified models and empirical correlations to...

Bayesian Identification of Thermodynamic Parameters from Shock Tube Data

The project concerns uncertainty reduction of parameters of a thermodynamic equation of state for a dense gas, using Bayesian inference. The dense gas considered is D6 siloxane and the equation of state used is the polytropic van der Waals equation. The shock tube data comes from the flexible asymmetric shock tube (FAST) experiment. This is...

Aerodynamic Investigation of an Exit Guide Vane Followed by a Curved Duct: A Numerical Study

Curved exhaust ducts are used in aero engine applications for different purposes, including thrust vectoring, shielding of parts from the exhaust or improving stealth properties. Their integration, however, regularly represents a design problem due to flow separation and high aerodynamic losses occurring in the bend. Curved duct flows for both...

Design of a 10MW Wind Turbine Rotor Blade for Testing of a Scaled-down Floating Offshore Support Structure

Floating offshore wind energy is being widely implemented in deep-water sites thanks to its numerous advantages, which among others include the access to stronger and undisturbed wind resources. In addition, considering the fast-paced growth in size and power generating capacity of offshore wind turbines, the designs of floating foundations need...

Numerical Simulation of a Two-Phase Thermal Control System

Two-phase thermal control systems are used for payloads that require temperature stability under high and fluctuating heat output. However, the complex interaction between the two phases in a flow makes it hard to predict the performance of such a system. The goal was to develop a numerical model able to predict the transient behaviour of such a...