An Impact of various shroud bleed slot configurations and cavity vanes on compressor Mmap width and the inducer flow field

Journal of Turbomachinery

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Sivagnanasundaram, Subenuka ^a   Spence, Stephen ^a   Early, Juliana ^a   Nikpour, Bahram ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b CUMMINS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSOR PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; GEOMETRY VARIATIONS; GRID GENERATION METHODS; HEAVY-DUTY DIESEL ENGINE; NON-UNIFORM FLOW FIELDS; OPERATING CONDITION; TURBOCHARGER CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSORS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIESEL ENGINES; INLET FLOW; SUPERCHARGERS; TURBOMACHINERY;

FLOW FIELDS;

EID: 84888061882     PISSN: 0889504X     EISSN: 15288900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4007513     Document Type: Article

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