Long-to-short length-scale transition: A stall inception phenomenon in an axial compressor with inlet distortion

Journal of Turbomachinery

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 130-140

  Lin, Feng ^a   Li, Meilin ^b   Chen, Jingyi ^b  

^a INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING THERMOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FLOW; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPRESSION SYSTEM; COMPRESSOR INSTABILITY; INLET DISTORTION; MOORE-GREITZER-BASED MODEL; STALL INCEPTION PHENOMENON; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

COMPRESSORS;

AXIAL FLOW; COMPRESSORS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33645760990     PISSN: 0889504X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2098808     Document Type: Article

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