A theory of Tesla disc turbines

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy

Volumn 226, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 650-663

  Sengupta, Sayantan ^a   Guha, Abhijit ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

analytical theory; power; Tesla turbine; three dimensional flowfield; torque; turbine efficiency

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RELATIONS; ANALYTICAL THEORY; CLOSED FORM; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; DISC TURBINE; FLOW PASSAGE; MATHEMATICAL THEORY; ORDER-OF-MAGNITUDE ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL SPEED; POWER; POWER OUT PUT; RADIAL VELOCITY; ROTATING DISC; ROTATIONAL SPEED; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES; TURBINE EFFICIENCY;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FLOW FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TORQUE;

TURBINES;

EID: 84868467955     PISSN: 09576509     EISSN: 20412967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957650912446402     Document Type: Article

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