Design Optimization of a Transonic-Fan Rotor Using Numerical Computations of the Full Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations and Simplex Algorithm

Table 1

Rotor pressure ratio for different grid sizes.

Number of cells	2𝐸5	5𝐸5	8𝐸5	9𝐸5	10𝐸5
Normalized 1st grid spacing	3.23𝐸−3	2.0𝐸−3	1.4𝐸−3	1.2𝐸−3	1.1𝐸−3
(stage total pressure ratio)	1.426	1.4317	1.4327	1.433	1.4334