Future engine requirements, including high-altitude flight of unmanned air vehicles as well as a movement to reduce engine cost and weight, are challenging the current state of the art in low-pressure-turbine airfoil design. These new requirements present low-Reynolds number challenges as well as the need for high-performance high-lift design concepts. Here we report on an effort to expand the relatively well established design space for low- pressure turbine airfoils. Analytical and experimental mid-span performance data and loadings are presented for four new airfoil designs based on the Pack B velocity triangles. The new designs represent a systematic expansion of low- pressure turbine airfoil design space through the application of high-lift design concepts for front- and aft-loaded airfoils. Taken holistically, the results presented here demonstrate accurate transition modeling provides a reliable method to develop optimized, very high-lift airfoil designs.
Toward the Expansion of Low-Pressure-Turbine Airfoil Design Space (Postprint)
2008
10 pages
Report
No indication
English
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