特斯拉涡轮是一种无叶片的涡轮,主要利用高速工质的粘性推动圆盘做功,实现工作介质的能量转换。特斯拉涡轮具有结构简单、制造成本低和具有自清洁性的特点,因此可应用于多种工作介质,并在非常规应用领域可以发挥出独特优势。随着新型能源系统的发展,特斯拉涡轮相关研究日益增多,为进一步探索特斯拉涡轮的应用潜力,本文分别从机理研究、优化设计、应用研究和性能水平现状四个方面对特斯拉涡轮相关研究进行了全面综述,整理了特斯拉涡轮的流动机理,总结了特斯拉涡轮主要的数学模型,回顾了研究者开展的优化设计研究,归纳了特斯拉涡轮主要的应用领域,获得了现有特斯拉涡轮的效率和功率范围,并指出后续需要开展的理论研究和优化设计方向,为特斯拉涡轮的进一步改进和应用推广提供参考。

Tesla turbine is a bladeless turbine that utilizes the viscosity of high-speed working fluids to drive the disk to do work and achieves energy conversion of the working medium. Tesla turbine has the characteristics of simple structure, low manufacturing cost and self-cleaning, so it can be applied to a variety of working media, and can play a unique advantage in non-conventional applications of conventional bladed turbine. With the development of new energy systems, the research on Tesla turbine has increased significantly, to further explore the application potential of Tesla turbine, this paper presents a comprehensive review of Tesla turbine related research in four aspects: mechanism research, optimization design, application research and current status of performance level, reviews the flow mechanism of Tesla turbine and summarizes the main mathematical models, reviews the optimization design research carried out by researchers, summarizes the main application areas, the efficiency and power range of the existing Tesla turbine are obtained, and points out the subsequent theoretical research and optimization design directions to provide references for further improvement and application promotion of Tesla turbine.

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国家科技重大专项( 2019-Ⅱ-0008-0028)； 国家自然科学基金(51976218)