Detailed flow measurements within the impeller and the vaneless diffuser of a centrifugal turbomachine

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 147-155

  Ubaldi, Marina ^a   Zunino, Pietro ^a   Ghiglione, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSERS (FLUID); FLOW MEASUREMENT; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; ROTORS; TURBULENCE; WAKES;

CENTRIFUGAL TURBOMACHINE; RELATIVE FLOW;

TURBOMACHINERY;

CENTRIFUGAL MOTOR; FLOW; IMPELLER; TURBOMACHINERY;

EID: 0032073605     PISSN: 08941777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-1777(97)10060-7     Document Type: Article

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