Experimental study of the thermal development in a rotating square-ended u-bend

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 3 PART A, Issue , 2006, Pages 647-655

  Iacovides, Hector ^a   Kounadis, Diamantis ^a   Launder, Brian E ^a   Xu, Zeyuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE COOLING PASSAGE; ROTATING WATER FLOW FACILITY; SPLITTER PLATES; STATIONARY AIR FLOW;

COOLING SYSTEMS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); LIQUID CRYSTALS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STREAM FLOW;

ROTATING MACHINERY;

EID: 33750881129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2006-90846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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