Cosmo Scarimbolo
Development of a data-driven design tool for turbomachinery blades: Exploration of secondary flows in 3D turbine cascades.
Rel. Andrea Ferrero, Sergio Lavagnoli. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Aerospaziale, 2025
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Abstract
Gas turbines, particularly those in aircraft propulsion, represent a cutting-edge engineering field. Although advances in cooling technologies and materials have led to mechanical efficiency above 90 percent, economic and physical constraints limit future increases. As a result, improving machine performance still heavily relies on minimising aerodynamic losses. Among these, secondary-flow-induced losses — arising from the complex interaction between the main passage flow and endwall boundary layers — still represent a challenge in the design phase. Despite empirical correlations and simplified models, no comprehensive analytical framework currently exists to quantify accurately these losses across different design configurations. This thesis develops a Python-based computational tool that automates the three-dimensional aerodynamic analysis of turbine cascades through NUMECA Cadence FINETurbo software.
The tool integrates key stages of the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) workflow, including blades CAD (Computer Aided Desgin) generation through profile extrusion, mesh generation, boundary conditions computation, based on operational Reynolds and Mach numbers, and the setting of desired inlet boundary layer profiles
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