Flow nonuniformities and turbulent "Hot spots" due to wake-blade and wake-wake interactions in a multi-stage turbomachine

Journal of Turbomachinery

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 553-563

  Chow, Yi Chih ^a   Uzol, Oguz ^a   Katz, Joseph ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; KINETIC ENERGY; ROTORS; SHEAR STRESS; STATORS; STRAIN RATE; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES;

PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV);

TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

BLADE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TURBOMACHINERY; TURBULENCE; WAKE;

EID: 0036821170     PISSN: 0889504X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1509078     Document Type: Article

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