Tesla turbine for energy conversion: An automotive application

CHUSER 2012 - 2012 IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 820-825

  Choon, Tan Wee ^a   Anasrahman, A ^a   Li, Tan Sin ^a   Aik, Lim Eng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bladeless Turbine; CFD; Turbomachinery

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; CONTACT AREAS; DRAG FORCES; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRICAL VEHICLES; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; TESLA TURBINES; WORKING FLUID;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; FLUIDS; HYBRID VEHICLES; TURBOMACHINERY;

TURBINES;

EID: 84877675248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CHUSER.2012.6504427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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