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Prometheus: a geometry-centric optimisation system for combustor design

Prometheus: a geometry-centric optimisation system for combustor design
Prometheus: a geometry-centric optimisation system for combustor design
The following paper presents an overview of the Prometheus design system and its applications to gas turbine combustor design. Unlike a traditional “optimizer-centric” method, Prometheus aims to reduce both the level of workflow complexity and rework by taking a more “geometry-centric” approach to design optimization by shifting the control of script generation away from the optimization program to the computer aided design (CAD) package. Prometheus therefore enables significant geometry changes to be automatically reflected in all subsequent scripts necessary for the analysis of a combustor. Prometheus’ current capabilities include automatic fluid volume generation and aero-thermal and thermo-acoustic network generation as well as automatic mesh and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) script generation
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Zhang, X., Toal, David J.J., Bressloff, N.W., Keane, A.J., Witham, F., Gregory, J., Stow, S., Goddard, C., Zedda, M. and Rodgers, M. (2014) Prometheus: a geometry-centric optimisation system for combustor design. ASME Turbo Expo 2014: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition, Dusseldorf, Germany. 16 - 20 Jun 2014. 13 pp .

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The following paper presents an overview of the Prometheus design system and its applications to gas turbine combustor design. Unlike a traditional “optimizer-centric” method, Prometheus aims to reduce both the level of workflow complexity and rework by taking a more “geometry-centric” approach to design optimization by shifting the control of script generation away from the optimization program to the computer aided design (CAD) package. Prometheus therefore enables significant geometry changes to be automatically reflected in all subsequent scripts necessary for the analysis of a combustor. Prometheus’ current capabilities include automatic fluid volume generation and aero-thermal and thermo-acoustic network generation as well as automatic mesh and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) script generation

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Published date: 16 June 2014
Venue - Dates: ASME Turbo Expo 2014: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2014-06-16 - 2014-06-20
Organisations: Computational Engineering & Design Group

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Local EPrints ID: 363186
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/363186
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ORCID for X. Zhang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6918-1861
ORCID for David J.J. Toal: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2203-0302
ORCID for A.J. Keane: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7993-1569

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Date deposited: 24 Mar 2014 09:30
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:29

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Author: X. Zhang ORCID iD
Author: David J.J. Toal ORCID iD
Author: N.W. Bressloff
Author: A.J. Keane ORCID iD
Author: F. Witham
Author: J. Gregory
Author: S. Stow
Author: C. Goddard
Author: M. Zedda
Author: M. Rodgers

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