This 5 day-course is offered to undergraduate students at the Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics at Graz University of Technology. Goal of the course is to give students an holistic education and to train a "understanding of systems function as wholes". Within this course students are designing an axial turbine stage from the very beginning and apply all the theory learned in separate courses before. At first the students design the annulus and the blades. They determine the inlet and outlet velocity triangles for several channel heights and define the camber line of the profile before a thickness distribution is superimposed. Secondly, a 3d CAD model including a disk design is created to get a realistic blade root. Then the students perform a finite element analysis (FEA) of the rotor blade and evaluate mechanical stresses in distinct sections of the blade. Also, natural frequencies are determined and a Campbell diagram is calculated. If the students have proven that there design is free from mechanical problems a steady state simulation of the flow through one passage is performed. Due to the fact that there is one numerical simulation platform for FEA as well as for CFD, a coupling of the fluid structure interaction (FSI) can be realised as final step. In a 1 way FSI analysis the students evaluate basic aeroelastic characteristics. After finishing that theoretical part an experimental part follows in which the students measure the static wall pressure distribution on the suction and pressure surface of that particular mid span profile in a subsonic wind tunnel. Natural frequencies are also experimentally determined using laser vibrometers. At the end of the course students will "produce" their own rotor blade with a 3d-printer. The blade can be kept as a souvenir. This paper describes the content of the course in detail and presents some results of last year's class and reports the feedback of the students.
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