THE GAS DYNAMICS OF THE EXHAUST DIFFUSERS: COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS

Abstract

Some recent advances in computational gas dynamics of exhaust diffusers are presented. The compressor/turbine axial-radial exhaust diffusers and outlet devices of compressor/turbine units, exhaust hoods for power steam turbines are considered. The peculiarities of gas dynamics of the above mentioned devices are discussed. The formulations of problems for CFD analysis of these devices are discussed including the coupling procedure for joint operation of the last stage and exhaust hood. The numerical method and the implementation of a differential turbulence model are described. The new approach to the description of computational domain and parallel numerical solution of transport equations based on the unstructured set of structured grid blocks is also presented.

Keywords

• gas dynamics
• diffusers
• exhaust devices
• CFD