Effect of Tip Clearance on the Prediction of Nonsynchronous Vibrations in Axial Compressors

Journal of Turbomachinery

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Drolet, Martin ^a   Vo, Huu Duc ^b   Mureithi, Njuki W ^b  

^a PRATT AND WHITNEY CANADA   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADING; AXIAL COMPRESSORS; BACKGROUND THEORY; BERLIN , GERMANY; BLADE GEOMETRY; BLADE LOADING; BLADE TIP; CONVECTION COEFFICIENTS; FEEDBACK THEORY; GENERIC APPROACH; GENERIC NATURE; NONSYNCHRONOUS VIBRATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; ROTOR SPEED; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPEED PREDICTION; TIP CLEARANCE; TIP CLEARANCE FLOW; TIP CLEARANCE SIZES; TIP SPEED;

FORECASTING; LEAKAGE (FLUID); TEMPERATURE;

LOADING;

EID: 84868277592     PISSN: 0889504X     EISSN: 15288900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4006401     Document Type: Article

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