A new streamline curvature throughflow method for radial turbomachinery

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 6, Issue PART C, 2008, Pages 2119-2130

  Casey, Michael ^a   Robinson, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b PCA Engineers Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE ROW; CALCULATION METHODS; COMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS; CURVED WALLS; EMPIRICAL DATA; GENERAL METHOD; MIXED FLOWS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; PRESSURE RATIO; RADIAL TURBOMACHINERY; REAL GAS; RELATIVE FLOW; STREAMLINE CURVATURE; THROUGHFLOW; TRAILING EDGES;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 69949188872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2008-50187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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