Predicting blade leading edge erosion in an axial induced draft fan

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Corsini, Alessandro ^a   Marchegiani, Andrea ^a   Rispoli, Franco ^a   Venturini, Paolo ^a   Sheard, Anthony G ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Flakt Woods Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AXIAL FAN BLADES; BLADE CHORD; BLADE GEOMETRY; CRITICAL LIMIT; EROSION PATTERNS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FINITE ELEMENT; FIRED BOILER; INDUCED DRAFT FANS; INDUCED DRAFTS; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; LEADING EDGE; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EROSION;

EID: 84857028711     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004724     Document Type: Article

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