The importance of shroud leakage modeling in multistage turbine flow calculations

Journal of Turbomachinery

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 699-707

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEALS;

LEAKAGE FLOWS; SEAL CLEARANCE; SHROUD LEAKAGE MODELING;

GAS TURBINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GAS TURBINES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEALS;

EID: 33750727053     PISSN: 0889504X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2181999     Document Type: Article

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