Design and Optimization of Fluid Machinery, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Fluid machinery refers to fluid as the working medium for energy conversion machinery, including turbines, pumps, and compressors. Due to the wide application range, diverse applicable environment, and complex structure of fluid machinery, it is difficult to meet the changeable operating conditions through a fixed structure. Therefore, to maximize the structural performance of fluid machinery, it is necessary to optimize the structural parameters of fluid machinery on the basis of fully understanding the internal flow law of fluid machinery, so as to meet the development requirements of wide range, high efficiency, and energy saving in the current fluid machinery industry.

In recent years, with the emergence of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and various advanced optimization algorithms, the design and optimization of fluid machinery has re-emerged in the research community. In particular, with the help of CFD technology, people can observe the abnormal flow phenomenon in fluid machinery more intuitively and achieve rapid design and automatic optimization of fluid machinery structures by setting different optimization objectives.

This Special Issue seeks high-quality original research focusing on the latest novel advances regarding the design and optimization of fluid machinery. Original research and review articles are welcome.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Design and optimization of fluid machinery;
• Cavitation performance and its control;
• Numerical simulation of transient flow and instabilities;
• Flow-induced vibration in fluid machinery;
• Advanced optimization algorithm;
• Application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in optimization;
• Innovative technologies for flow control;
• Suppression of unsteady flow.

Dr. Leilei Ji
Prof. Dr. Ramesh Agarwal
Dr. Yang Yang
Guest Editors

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• CFD
• fluid machinery
• design and optimization
• shock and vibration
• unsteady flow
• cavitation
• rotor dynamics