Inverse design and optimization of a return channel for a multistage centrifugal compressor

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 799-806

  Veress, Árpád ^a   Van Den Braembussche, René ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSERS (FLUID); NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MULTISTAGE CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSORS; RADIUS RATIO; RETURN CHANNELS; SWIRL VELOCITY;

COMPRESSORS;

EID: 11144284851     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1792258     Document Type: Article

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