The application of flow control to an aft-loaded low pressure turbine cascade with unsteady wakes

Journal of Turbomachinery

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Bons, Jeffrey P ^a   Pluim, Jon ^a   Gompertz, Kyle ^a   Bloxham, Matthew ^a   Clark, John P ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADE PROFILE; DISCRETE VORTICES; FLOW CONDITION; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; LOW PRESSURE TURBINE BLADE; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; LOW-PRESSURE TURBINE CASCADE; LOW-PRESSURE TURBINES; SEPARATED SHEAR LAYERS; SEPARATION BUBBLE; SEPARATION CONTROL; SEPARATION ZONE; TIME-AVERAGED; TOTAL-PRESSURE LOSS; UNSTEADY WAKE; UPSTREAM WAKE; VORTEX GENERATOR JETS; WAKE DISTURBANCES;

CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOW CONTROL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT; TURBINES; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 79960337863     PISSN: 0889504X     EISSN: 15288900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4000488     Document Type: Article

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