Unsteady flow in the vaned diffuser of a medium specific speed pump

ASME 1996 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition, GT 1996

Volumn 1, Issue , 1996, Pages

  Muggli, Felix A ^a   Wiss, Donald ^a   Eisele, Klaus ^a   Zhang, Zhengji ^a   Casey, Michael V ^a   Galpin, Paul ^b  

^a Sulzer Innotec   (Switzerland)

^b Advanced Scientific Computing Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); FLOW FIELDS; GAS TURBINES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; UNSTEADY FLOW;

CODE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL WORK; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; STEADY SIMULATION; UNSTEADY EFFECTS; UNSTEADY FLOWFIELDS; UNSTEADY SIMULATIONS;

INLET FLOW;

EID: 84923875633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/96-GT-157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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