PIV maps of tip leakage and secondary flow fields on a low-speed turbine blade cascade with moving end wall

Journal of Turbomachinery

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Palafox, Pepe ^a   Oldfield, Martin L G ^a   LaGraff, J E ^b   Jones, Terry V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; MAPS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SECONDARY FLOW; SPEED; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

BLADE CHORD; CASCADE (CO); END WALLS; FLOW FIELD MEASUREMENTS; REYNOLDS (CO); ROTOR BLADES; TIP LEAKAGE; TURBINE BLADES;

FLOW FIELDS;

EID: 47649127544     PISSN: 0889504X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2437218     Document Type: Article

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