Paper 1:

A Geometry Generation Framework for

Contoured Endwalls

Paper 2:
Flow Visualization in a Linear Turbine Cascade
of High Performance Turbine Blades
Work Progress
➔ In Paper 1, two types of geometry generation framework (GGF) techniques have been proposed:
◆ Full Platform Contouring
● Using Camber line of airfoils as boundary
● Using Pressure and suction surface as boundary
◆ Termination at the Throat

➔ A full functional matlab code was generated for Full Platform Contouring, with following input
parameters
◆ 2d airfoil coordinates for pressure side : ‘Upper_Airfoil.txt’
All
◆ 2d airfoil coordinates for suction side : ‘Lower_Airfoil.txt’
dimensions
◆ Axial chord length : ‘Chord’ in
◆ Pitch : ‘Pitch’ mm
◆ Radius of tip : ‘R_tip’
◆ Number of blades : ‘N’
◆ Grid size in X and Y direction : ‘Max_grid_X’ and ‘Max_grid_Y’
◆ Axial and Circumferential function : ‘Fa’ and ‘Fp1, Fp2, Fp3’

➔ A surface was generated using airfoil data from Paper 2, while axial and circumferential functions
were taken from Paper 1.
Inputs in MATLAB Code
 Comparison of Results
(Full Platform Contouring)
Airfoil Shape

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Orthonormal transformation
Paper 1 MATLAB code
Smoothing leading and trailing edges
Paper 1 MATLAB code
Orthonormal Coordinate type 1 with grid
Paper 1 MATLAB code
Orthonormal Coordinate type 2 with grid
Paper 1 MATLAB code
Functions
Paper 1 MATLAB code

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Contours in Orthonormal Coordinates
Paper 1 MATLAB code
Final Coordinates
Paper 1 MATLAB code