Development of a Novel Mixing Plane Interface Using a Fully Implicit Averaging for Stage Analysis

This paper describes the development and validation steps of a characteristics-based explicit as well as a novel fully implicit mixing plane implementation for turbomachinery applications. The framework is an unstructured 3D RANS in-house modified solver, based on open-source libraries.Particular attention was paid to mass-conservation, accurate variables interpolation and algorithm stability in order to improve robustness and convergence. By introducing a specific interface, allowing the use of algebraic multigrid solvers together with multiprocessor computation, a speed up of the numerical solution procedure was achieved. The validation of both mixing plane algorithms is carried out on an industrial radial compressor and a cold air 1.5 stages axial turbine.Copyright © 2013 by ASME