flow anaysis of a gas turbine blade

About this project

The objective of this project is to design and analyse a turbine blade of a jet engine. In the present work turbine blade is designed and analysed with different materials named structural steel, titanium alloys, aluminium alloys. An attempt has been made to investigate and study the effect of temperature, induced stresses and flow around the turbine blade. A thermal investigation has been carried out to investigate the direction of the temperature flow which is been developed due to the thermal loading. A structural analysis has been carried out to investigate the stresses, shear stress and displacements of the turbine blade which is been develop due to the coupling effect of thermal and centrifugal loads. A flow analysis has been carried out to investigate the pressure distribution and how the flow velocity is changing from root to tip due to the geometry variation. An attempt is also made to suggest the best material for a turbine blade by comparing the results obtained for the three diff materials (structural steel, aluminium, titanium). Based on the plots and results titanium can be consider as the best material which is economical, as well as it has good material properties at higher temperature as compare to that of structural steel and aluminium alloys.