The importance of shroud leakage modelling in multistage turbine flow calculations

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 6 PART A, Issue , 2005, Pages 561-570

  Rosic, Budimir ^a   Denton, John D ^a   Pullan, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITIES; LEAKAGE FLOWS; TURBINE MODELS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; SEALS; TURBINES; VELOCITY;

LEAKAGE (FLUID);

EID: 27744443514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2005-68459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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