Automatic Design of Turbomachinery Blading Using GPU Accelerated Adjoint Compressible Flow Analysis

Abstract

This work presents the development of an Automatic Design Optimization tool, with the declared objective that it be actually practical in the context of aerodynamic design of turbomachinery components. For that, the requirements are: that it solves a realistic design problem fulfilling stringent quality criteria, that the results can be readily integrated in daily workflow, that the turnaround times are faster than conventional human driven designs, and that is robust enough that is does not need human intervention once the procedure is initiated. The starting point has been the existence of a set of validated design tools used routinely in the usual human driven process, comprising geometry generation, flow analysis, and