Mechanical Engineering

Investigation into Characteristics of Guide Wheels of Hydraulic Torque Converters with Adjustable Guide Vanes

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  • College of Mechanical Science and Engineering,Jilin University,Changchun 130022,Jilin,China
马文星(1962-),男,教授,博士生导师,主要从事液力传动与自动变速研究.E-mail:mawx@jlu.edu.cn

Received date: 2014-04-17

  Revised date: 2014-09-04

  Online published: 2014-11-17

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 国家“863”计划项目(2014AA041502)

Abstract

The flows in hydrodynamic torque converters are complicated,inconstant,incompressible,three-dimen-sional and viscous.An adjustable hydrodynamic torque converter is set up by adding the adjustable guide wheels tothe torque converter with three components.In the investigation,the full port models of the torque converters withdifferent openings are constructed based on the fact that the adjustable guide vane of the hydrodynamic torque con-verter is of multiple openings.Then,the internal flow of the torque converter is simulated by means of the segrega-ted solver,the SIMPLE algorithm and the large eddy simulation (LES) turbulence model.Based on the simulationresults,both the flow characteristics of the internal flow field and the working characteristics of the guide wheels areanalyzed.Thus,the roles of adjustable and fixed guide wheels are acquired,which can provide guidance for impro-ving the performance of the adjustable hydrodynamic torque converter as well as for designing guide vanes.

Cite this article

Ma Wen-xing Wang Ruo-yang Cai Wei . Investigation into Characteristics of Guide Wheels of Hydraulic Torque Converters with Adjustable Guide Vanes[J]. Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science), 2014 , 42(12) : 84 -89 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-565X.2014.12.013

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