REVIEW—Progress in Numerical Turbomachinery Analysis

Abstract

Progress achieved in numerical analysis during the past decade now permits the turbo-machinery designer to carry out a wide variety of inviscid, steady flow, two-dimensional calculations for compressible sybsonic and transonic flow fields, including some strongly diffusing flows. Three-dimensional (including viscosity) calculations are under development and should find wide spread use as analysis tools during the next decade. This review offers an introduction to recent advances in numerical turbomachinery design methods guided by the author’s design usage of several of the techniques reported.