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Within a broader national project aimed at the hybridization of a standard city car (the 998 cc Mitsubishi-derived gasoline engine of the Smart W451), our team tackled the problem of improving the supercharger performance and response. The originally conceived design innovation was that of eliminating the mechanical connection between the compresso...

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... gasoline-fueled ICE, most turbocharger units today are back-to-back, radial/radial compressor/turbine assemblies ( Figure 1 Standard Turbocharger assembly): the exhaust gases from the ICE power the turbine that in turn drives the compressor. A schematic representation of the process and of the subsumed ideal and real (indicated) cycle [5] are shown in Figure 2. ...
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... radial extension of the diffuser is the same as in the original GT12 compressor;  Again an extension of the domain by 1.5 diameters was introduced to smooth the downstream boundary condition ( Figure 10);  ...
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... mesh sensitivity analysis was run on each configuration, the objective function being the shaft torque. Quite obviously, the results are geometry-dependent (Figure 11): the final meshes contained 1.6 × 10 6 and 1.2 × 10 6 nodes for the standard and tandem rotor, respectively. The diffuser mesh contained 1.6 × 10 5 (Garrett) and 1.2 × 10 5 (Tandem) nodes. ...
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... diffuser mesh contained 1.6 × 10 5 (Garrett) and 1.2 × 10 5 (Tandem) nodes. The final rotor meshes are shown in Figure 12. ...
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... most interesting global result is the compressor characteristic. Figure 13 shows that the Tandem A configuration displays a better efficiency than the Garrett compressor over the entire operating range (except very close to the choking line). This result was expected, as it is also well-documented in the relevant literature [17]. ...
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... result needs a more careful analysis on the basis of a detailed examination of the flowfields and will be discussed in the next section. The relative Ma plots of Figure 14 show that the Tandem A rotor has substantially lower sonic losses at the intake, while at rotor exit the Ma profiles are similar. Both plots refer to 50% span near the choking limit [7]. ...
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... the original configuration (left) incipient choking is visible in the circled regions, where the local Ma is near or even in excess of one. The presence of the inducer provides a partial cure to this situation but reduces the critical mass flowrate (see also Figure 13). This undesired result is originated by the appearance of a jet flow (highlighted in Figure 15) between the pressure side of the inducer blade and the suction side of the exducer (where Ma  0.8): this high-speed flow flattens the boundary layer on the exducer suction side (improving work transfer in that area) but also distorts the pressure field, attracting some fluid from the suction side BL and maintaining its "jet" profile up to the rotor exit, resulting in high sonic losses. ...
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... presence of the inducer provides a partial cure to this situation but reduces the critical mass flowrate (see also Figure 13). This undesired result is originated by the appearance of a jet flow (highlighted in Figure 15) between the pressure side of the inducer blade and the suction side of the exducer (where Ma  0.8): this high-speed flow flattens the boundary layer on the exducer suction side (improving work transfer in that area) but also distorts the pressure field, attracting some fluid from the suction side BL and maintaining its "jet" profile up to the rotor exit, resulting in high sonic losses. A second undesirable characteristic of the Tandem A rotor is the mismatch between the velocity at inducer exit and the tangent to the chord of the exducer leading edge: this results in an excessive incidence that-at low flowrates-promotes BL separation on the pressure side of the exducer (Figures 15 and 16). ...
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... undesired result is originated by the appearance of a jet flow (highlighted in Figure 15) between the pressure side of the inducer blade and the suction side of the exducer (where Ma  0.8): this high-speed flow flattens the boundary layer on the exducer suction side (improving work transfer in that area) but also distorts the pressure field, attracting some fluid from the suction side BL and maintaining its "jet" profile up to the rotor exit, resulting in high sonic losses. A second undesirable characteristic of the Tandem A rotor is the mismatch between the velocity at inducer exit and the tangent to the chord of the exducer leading edge: this results in an excessive incidence that-at low flowrates-promotes BL separation on the pressure side of the exducer (Figures 15 and 16). This effect is caused by the previously discussed decision of maintaining the exducer geometry of the conventional machine, to highlight the influence of the sole inducer on the flow field. ...
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... angular overlapping of the exducer was reduced to 40°, to increase the critical mass flowrate. This modified design eliminated the two defects discussed above (see Figures 17 and 18): the high-Ma regions near rotor exit are much less extended, the jet flow has disappeared and the inducer/exducer BL transition is much smoother. At this point it became clear that it would be possible to tune the two parameters that most influence the creation of a jet flow at the inducer/exducer interface, namely the axial clearance between the two (the larger this clearance, the more fluid "leaks" from the pressure to the suction side) and the "clock", i.e., the circumferential angle between the two blades, which is the main factor controlling the interblade jet flow. ...
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... this point it became clear that it would be possible to tune the two parameters that most influence the creation of a jet flow at the inducer/exducer interface, namely the axial clearance between the two (the larger this clearance, the more fluid "leaks" from the pressure to the suction side) and the "clock", i.e., the circumferential angle between the two blades, which is the main factor controlling the interblade jet flow. Both are defined in Figure 19. Therefore, after introducing the above corrections, a Design of Experiment campaign was conducted to identify the best clock/clearance combination. ...
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... B design (see Figure 13) shows a choke margin extension and outperforms the conventional impeller, while the C version (overlap increased to 50°) is slightly less efficient and just as sensitive to choking as the Garrett rotor, due to its higher Mach losses. ...
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... it is intuitively clear that the most influential performance governing feature in a tandem compressor configuration is the interaction between the inducer boundary layer and the exducer blades, and it is also clear that in general the stage efficiency increases when the inducer boundary layer falls in the pressure side of the exducer, there seems to be no general agreement on how the circumferential (clock) and axial (gap) separation between inducer outlet and exducer inlet affect performance (Figure 19). A first clue is provided by the consideration that the compression ratio increases when the boundary layer at inducer exit merges with the one at exducer inlet on the suction side: our calculations show that this enhances the airfoil performance and promotes a smoother flow throughout the exducer, as shown in Figure 20 (see Appendix A). ...
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... first clue is provided by the consideration that the compression ratio increases when the boundary layer at inducer exit merges with the one at exducer inlet on the suction side: our calculations show that this enhances the airfoil performance and promotes a smoother flow throughout the exducer, as shown in Figure 20 (see Appendix A). The clock has a remarkable influence on this effect: the 0% clock configuration reflects perfectly the previous considerations, while both the 25% and 50% clock geometris are dominated by Mach losses generated at a throat appearing between the inducer trailing edge and the exducer leading ( Figure 21). The peak Mach number increases with the decrease of the axial distance, degrading efficiency. ...
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... our analysis emerges that a 75% clock weakens the Mach over most of the domain, as it is apparent from the "cleaner" midchannel sections displayed in Figure 22. This configuration achieves the highest efficiency throughout the operating range (Figures 13 and 23) and exhibits promising performance for a full-scale application. ...
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... the choking behavior of the Tandem B geometry (Figure 27), it appears that the addition of the inducer leads to higher velocities downstream and through the exducer, shifting chocking towards lower mass flowrates. This is contrary though to consolidated experience, since in conventional centrifugal compressors the shock should appear in the fore section of the blade, near the leading edge, and this indeed is the case for the GT12 conventional impeller (Figure 14). This odd behavior is thus the consequence of poor design, which in turn means that the exducer blade channel must be redesigned. ...
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... simulations are conducted at the expected design point with pre-assigned total pressure inlet and static pressure outlet. The results are shown in Figures A1 and A2, and some of the corresponding flow fields are displayed in the main text of this paper. ...
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... gasoline-fueled ICE, most turbocharger units today are back-to-back, radial/radial compressor/turbine assemblies ( Figure 1 Standard Turbocharger assembly): the exhaust gases from the ICE power the turbine that in turn drives the compressor. A schematic representation of the process and of the subsumed ideal and real (indicated) cycle [5] are shown in Figure 2. ...
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... radial extension of the diffuser is the same as in the original GT12 compressor;  Again an extension of the domain by 1.5 diameters was introduced to smooth the downstream boundary condition ( Figure 10);  ...
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... mesh sensitivity analysis was run on each configuration, the objective function being the shaft torque. Quite obviously, the results are geometry-dependent (Figure 11): the final meshes contained 1.6 × 10 6 and 1.2 × 10 6 nodes for the standard and tandem rotor, respectively. The diffuser mesh contained 1.6 × 10 5 (Garrett) and 1.2 × 10 5 (Tandem) nodes. ...
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... diffuser mesh contained 1.6 × 10 5 (Garrett) and 1.2 × 10 5 (Tandem) nodes. The final rotor meshes are shown in Figure 12. ...
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... most interesting global result is the compressor characteristic. Figure 13 shows that the Tandem A configuration displays a better efficiency than the Garrett compressor over the entire operating range (except very close to the choking line). This result was expected, as it is also well-documented in the relevant literature [17]. ...
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... result needs a more careful analysis on the basis of a detailed examination of the flowfields and will be discussed in the next section. The relative Ma plots of Figure 14 show that the Tandem A rotor has substantially lower sonic losses at the intake, while at rotor exit the Ma profiles are similar. Both plots refer to 50% span near the choking limit [7]. ...
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... the original configuration (left) incipient choking is visible in the circled regions, where the local Ma is near or even in excess of one. The presence of the inducer provides a partial cure to this situation but reduces the critical mass flowrate (see also Figure 13). This undesired result is originated by the appearance of a jet flow (highlighted in Figure 15) between the pressure side of the inducer blade and the suction side of the exducer (where Ma  0.8): this high-speed flow flattens the boundary layer on the exducer suction side (improving work transfer in that area) but also distorts the pressure field, attracting some fluid from the suction side BL and maintaining its "jet" profile up to the rotor exit, resulting in high sonic losses. ...
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... presence of the inducer provides a partial cure to this situation but reduces the critical mass flowrate (see also Figure 13). This undesired result is originated by the appearance of a jet flow (highlighted in Figure 15) between the pressure side of the inducer blade and the suction side of the exducer (where Ma  0.8): this high-speed flow flattens the boundary layer on the exducer suction side (improving work transfer in that area) but also distorts the pressure field, attracting some fluid from the suction side BL and maintaining its "jet" profile up to the rotor exit, resulting in high sonic losses. A second undesirable characteristic of the Tandem A rotor is the mismatch between the velocity at inducer exit and the tangent to the chord of the exducer leading edge: this results in an excessive incidence that-at low flowrates-promotes BL separation on the pressure side of the exducer (Figures 15 and 16). ...
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... undesired result is originated by the appearance of a jet flow (highlighted in Figure 15) between the pressure side of the inducer blade and the suction side of the exducer (where Ma  0.8): this high-speed flow flattens the boundary layer on the exducer suction side (improving work transfer in that area) but also distorts the pressure field, attracting some fluid from the suction side BL and maintaining its "jet" profile up to the rotor exit, resulting in high sonic losses. A second undesirable characteristic of the Tandem A rotor is the mismatch between the velocity at inducer exit and the tangent to the chord of the exducer leading edge: this results in an excessive incidence that-at low flowrates-promotes BL separation on the pressure side of the exducer (Figures 15 and 16). This effect is caused by the previously discussed decision of maintaining the exducer geometry of the conventional machine, to highlight the influence of the sole inducer on the flow field. ...
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... angular overlapping of the exducer was reduced to 40°, to increase the critical mass flowrate. This modified design eliminated the two defects discussed above (see Figures 17 and 18): the high-Ma regions near rotor exit are much less extended, the jet flow has disappeared and the inducer/exducer BL transition is much smoother. At this point it became clear that it would be possible to tune the two parameters that most influence the creation of a jet flow at the inducer/exducer interface, namely the axial clearance between the two (the larger this clearance, the more fluid "leaks" from the pressure to the suction side) and the "clock", i.e., the circumferential angle between the two blades, which is the main factor controlling the interblade jet flow. ...
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... this point it became clear that it would be possible to tune the two parameters that most influence the creation of a jet flow at the inducer/exducer interface, namely the axial clearance between the two (the larger this clearance, the more fluid "leaks" from the pressure to the suction side) and the "clock", i.e., the circumferential angle between the two blades, which is the main factor controlling the interblade jet flow. Both are defined in Figure 19. Therefore, after introducing the above corrections, a Design of Experiment campaign was conducted to identify the best clock/clearance combination. ...
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... B design (see Figure 13) shows a choke margin extension and outperforms the conventional impeller, while the C version (overlap increased to 50°) is slightly less efficient and just as sensitive to choking as the Garrett rotor, due to its higher Mach losses. ...
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... it is intuitively clear that the most influential performance governing feature in a tandem compressor configuration is the interaction between the inducer boundary layer and the exducer blades, and it is also clear that in general the stage efficiency increases when the inducer boundary layer falls in the pressure side of the exducer, there seems to be no general agreement on how the circumferential (clock) and axial (gap) separation between inducer outlet and exducer inlet affect performance (Figure 19). A first clue is provided by the consideration that the compression ratio increases when the boundary layer at inducer exit merges with the one at exducer inlet on the suction side: our calculations show that this enhances the airfoil performance and promotes a smoother flow throughout the exducer, as shown in Figure 20 (see Appendix A). ...
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... first clue is provided by the consideration that the compression ratio increases when the boundary layer at inducer exit merges with the one at exducer inlet on the suction side: our calculations show that this enhances the airfoil performance and promotes a smoother flow throughout the exducer, as shown in Figure 20 (see Appendix A). The clock has a remarkable influence on this effect: the 0% clock configuration reflects perfectly the previous considerations, while both the 25% and 50% clock geometris are dominated by Mach losses generated at a throat appearing between the inducer trailing edge and the exducer leading ( Figure 21). The peak Mach number increases with the decrease of the axial distance, degrading efficiency. ...
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... our analysis emerges that a 75% clock weakens the Mach over most of the domain, as it is apparent from the "cleaner" midchannel sections displayed in Figure 22. This configuration achieves the highest efficiency throughout the operating range (Figures 13 and 23) and exhibits promising performance for a full-scale application. ...
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... the choking behavior of the Tandem B geometry (Figure 27), it appears that the addition of the inducer leads to higher velocities downstream and through the exducer, shifting chocking towards lower mass flowrates. This is contrary though to consolidated experience, since in conventional centrifugal compressors the shock should appear in the fore section of the blade, near the leading edge, and this indeed is the case for the GT12 conventional impeller (Figure 14). This odd behavior is thus the consequence of poor design, which in turn means that the exducer blade channel must be redesigned. ...
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... simulations are conducted at the expected design point with pre-assigned total pressure inlet and static pressure outlet. The results are shown in Figures A1 and A2, and some of the corresponding flow fields are displayed in the main text of this paper. ...

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