Experimental investigation of unsteady flow field in the tip region of an axial compressor rotor passage at near stall condition with stereoscopic particle image velocimetry

Journal of Turbomachinery

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 360-374

  Liu, Baojie ^a   Wang, Hongwei ^a   Liu, Huoxing ^a   Yu, Hongjun ^a   Jiang, Haokang ^a   Chen, Maozhang ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPRESSORS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); ROTATION; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

CCD CAMERAS; FLOW FIELDS; STEREOSCOPIC PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (SPIV); VORTICITY;

UNSTEADY FLOW;

COMPRESSOR; FLOW FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 5544277049     PISSN: 0889504X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1748367     Document Type: Article

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