Effect of upstream rotor vortical disturbances on the time - averaged performance of axial compressor stators: Part 1—framework of technical approach and wake - stator blade interactions

Journal of Turbomachinery

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-386

  Valkov, T V ^a   Tan, C S ^b  

^a Shell International Limited   (United Kingdom)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AXIAL FLOW TURBOMACHINERY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPRESSORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); ROTORS; STEADY FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

COMPRESSOR STATORS; MIXED-OUT STEADY FLOW APPROXIMATION; PRESSURE DEFECT;

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

AXIAL COMPRESSOR; INTERACTION; STATOR; WAKE;

EID: 0032702071     PISSN: 0889504X     EISSN: 15288900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2841330     Document Type: Article

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