Experimental validation of condensing flow theory for a stationary cascade of steam turbine blades

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1704, 1996, Pages 59-88

  White, A J ^a   Young, J B ^a   Walters, P T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Natl Power Research and Technology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADES; CASCADES; CONDENSING; FLOW; TURBINES-STEAM;

EID: 0029674159     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0003     Document Type: Article

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