Abstract
Recovery of heat energy from internal combustion engine exhaust will achieve significant road transportation CO2 reduction. Turbocharging and turbogenerating are most commonly used technologies to recover engine exhaust heat energy. Engine exhaust pulse flow can significantly affect the turbine performance of turbocharging and turbogenerating systems, and it is necessary to consider the pulse flow effects in turbine design and performance analysis. An investigation was carried out by numerical simulation on the mixed flow turbine pulse flow performance and flow fields. Results showed that the variations of the turbine efficiency and flowfiled under pulsating flow conditions demonstrate significant unsteady effects. The effect of blade leading edge sweep on turbine pulse flow performance was studied. It is shown that increasing of the leading edge sweep angle can improve the turbine average instantaneous efficiency by about 2 percent under pulsating flow conditions.
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