Improving a vaned diffuser for a given centrifugal impeller by 3D inverse design

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Gas Turbine Institute, Turbo Expo (Publication) IGTI

Volumn 5 B, Issue , 2002, Pages 1111-1122

  Zangeneh, Mehrdad ^a   Vogt, Damian ^b,c   Roduner, Christian ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE LOADING DISTRIBUTION; CENTRIFUGAL IMPELLER; MACH NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL INVERSE DESIGN; VANED DIFFUSER;

CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT TESTING; GEOMETRY; INTAKE SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VANE PUMPS;

DIFFUSERS (FLUID);

EID: 0037000728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2002-30621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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