Role of tip leakage in stall of a transonic centrifugal impeller

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 7, Issue PART B, 2009, Pages 1245-1253

  Hazby, Hamid R ^a   Xu, Liping ^a  

^a Whittle Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE PRESSURE GRADIENT; AUTOMOTIVE TURBOCHARGERS; BLADE TIP; BLADE TIP REGION; CENTRIFUGAL IMPELLER; FLOW FEATURES; IMPELLER FLOW; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPERATING CONDITION; STABLE OPERATION; STATE OF THE ART; STEADY STATE; TIP LEAKAGE; TOTAL PRESSURE; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

CENTRIFUGATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAKAGE (FLUID); TURBULENCE MODELS;

BLOWERS;

EID: 77953224064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2009-59372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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