Optimized design of axial turbine rotor blades considering a wide range of attack angles

Qiao Duan, Jun Liu, Wenying Ju, Mai Li, Pei Wang, Pengfei Wang, Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu University, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Light-duty Gas-turbine, School of Space Exploration, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Published online on March 21, 2026

Abstract

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Ahead of Print.
To extend the available range of attack angles and reduce profile loss, this paper develops a systematic aerodynamic optimization methodology for turbine blade profiles. This methodology integrates Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS), Artificial Neural ...