Unconventional Turbomachinery

  • Design methods and rapid prototyping
     
  • NICFD effects in turbines and compressors
     
  • Efficient unsteady shape optimization with reduced-order models for multi-physics design problems
     
  • Aero-mechanical design optimization
     
  • Data-driven loss modeling
     

Applications

  • Organic Rankine cycle turbines
  • Supercritical CO2 compressors
  • High-speed organic vapor mini-compressors
  • Mini-gas turbines
  • Supersonic turbines
  • Rocket engine turbopumps