Design and testing of a highly loaded mixed flow turbine

A method of designing a new generation of highly loaded mixed flow turbines for turbocharger appl icat ion is described. A review of the published work concerning radial turbines and closely related to mixed flow turbines is presented. A 1-D design method was developed. It is used to def ine the overal l turbine d imensions and to analyse its performance at the off design conditions. The method is applicable to both radial and mixed flow turbines. A series of designs had been produced and then analysed by the off design performance prediction method. The effects of several geometrical parameters on the performance of the designs were investigated.. This had led to the selection of an optimum rotor design for further analysis. An analyt ica l method based on the Bezier polynomials is used to define the three dimensional blade geometry. The rotor geometry is optimised by means of a quasithree-dimensional method for the flow analysis. The effect on the flow inside the rotor of three factors inf luencing the blade geometry has been investigated. These consist of the rotor blade angle variation along the leading edge, the rotor length and the blade curvature. Two mixed flow turbine prototypes have been manufactured and experimentally tested. These differ mainly in the rotor inlet, which is a constant blade angle in one case, and a notionally constant incidence angle at design conditions in the other case. The former turbine showed signif icant ly higher efficiencies across the operating range, and possible reasons for this are discussed. The experimental analysis concerns the

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