Effect of Rotor Shroud on Flow Passage Performance of Torpedo Turbine

Aiming at the heavy flow leakage loss from rotor tip because of short blade in a torpedo turbine, a three- di-mensional, viscous and steady computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis is performed for studying the turbine flow field and performance of rotors with or without rotor shroud under different designing condition by solving Rans-Navier-Stokes equations. The changing trends of turbine′s power, efficiency, gas flow rate, and various flow losses with or without rotor shroud are achieved, and the effect of rotor shroud on the flow field and the performance of turbine are analyzed. Results show that the rotor shroud can clearly enhance the power, efficiency and performance of turbine by eliminating the leakage flow and vortex at rotor tip, and by reducing the inner flow loss of torpedo turbine.