PERFORMANCE OF THREE TURBULENCE MODELS IN 3D FLOW INVESTIGATION FOR A 1.5-STAGE TURBINE

Abstract

The object of this study was to investigate the flow phenomena in a cold air turbine built at the Institute of Jet Propulsion and Turbomachinery at Aachen Technical University (IST RWTH Aachen, Germany). The said turbine had been studied previously both experimentally and numerically on an IST’s flow solver called Panta Rhei. Since that time certain improvements, computational-wise, have been implemented in the code. In order to test them, new simulation runs were conducted. The detailed studies of the measured and computed flow angles as well as a flow velocity analysis are the means for this evaluation.