Articles uploaded in MyJurnal |
|
|
View Article |
Comparison of flow field between steady and unsteady flow of an automotive mixed flow turbocharger turbine
Padzillah, M. H1, Rajoo, S2, Botas, Martinez3.
Global decarbonizing efforts in transportation industry have forced the automotive manufacturers
to opt for highly downsized high power-to-weight ratio engines. Since its invention, turbocharger
remains as integral element in order to achieve this target. However, although it has been proven
that a turbocharger turbine works in highly pulsatile environment, it is still designed under steady
state assumption. This is due to the lack of understanding on the nature of pulsating flow field within
the turbocharger turbine stage. This paper presents an effort to visualize the pulsating flow feature
using experimentally validated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. For this purpose,
a lean-vaned mixed-flow turbine with rotational speed of 30000 rpm at 20 Hz flow frequency, which
represent turbine operation for 3-cylinder 4-stroke engine operating at 800 rpm has been used.
Results indicated that the introduction of pulsating flow has resulted in more irregular pattern of
flow field as compared to steady flow operation. It has also been indicated that the flow behaves
very differently between pressure increment and decrement instances. During the pressure
decrement instance, flow blockage in terms of low pressure region occupies most of the turbine
passage as the flow exit the turbine.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Toggle translation
Download this article (This article has been downloaded 144 time(s))
|
|
Indexation |
Indexed by |
MyJurnal (2021) |
H-Index
|
6 |
Immediacy Index
|
0.000 |
Rank |
0 |
Indexed by |
Scopus 2020 |
Impact Factor
|
CiteScore (1.4) |
Rank |
Q3 (Engineering (all)) |
Additional Information |
SJR (0.191) |
|
|
|
|
|