In order to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels, the concept of distributed electric propulsion (DEP) has been introduced. At present, there are a few studies on the small electric propulsion engines of DEP vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAVs...
A new approach for optimizing the blade profile of a horizontal axis wind turbine is proposed in this paper, based on the combination of the Blade Element Momentum (BEM) method and Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD). The resulting algorithm was i...
Rapid aerodynamic design and optimization is essential for the development of future turbomachinery. The objective of this work is to demonstrate a methodology from 1D mean-line-design to a full 3D aerodynamic optimization of the turbine stage using...
With the growing demand for wind turbines in deep offshore regions, frequent typhoon disasters at sea have impeded the continued development of the wind power industry. To address the problem of typhoons destroying offshore wind power facilities, thi...
The design of millimeter-scale micro-turbine blades is challenging due to conflicting requirements: achieving aerodynamic performance while remaining compatible with microfabrication, and exploring high-dimensional morphological design spaces without...
To achieve multi-objective aerodynamics design optimization for a 1.5-stage transonic compressor, a design platform incorporating blade parameterization methods, a BPNN surrogate model, and the NSGA-II optimization method was developed. The stagger a...
This paper presents a multi-objective optimization procedure for bidirectional bulb turbine runners which is completed using ANSYS Workbench. The optimization procedure is able to check many more geometries with less manual work. In the procedure, th...
This article presents aircraft propeller optimal design technology; including an algorithm and OpenVINT 5 code. To achieve greater geometric flexibility, the proposed technique implements Class-Shape Transformation (CST) parameterization combined wit...
Rain erosion changes the surface profile and dielectric interfaces of wind turbine blade protection coatings, introducing geometry-dependent bias into surface charge reconstruction. A constrained inversion method combines a finite library of erosion...
Squirrel cage fans (SCFs) are widely used in a variety of household appliances. Due to the restriction on installation size, the design of high-efficiency SCFs with high flow capacities is an important topic. In this study, we proposed a novel rounde...
Pumping stations are important regulation facilities in a water distribution system. Intake structures can generally have a great influence on the operational state of the pumping station. To analyze the effects of the bell mouth height of the two-wa...