Enhancement of highly-loaded axial compressor stage performance using rotor blade tip tailoring: Part I - Numerical design studies

ETC 2005 - 6th Conference on Turbomachinery: Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Goller, M ^a   Gummer V ^a   Clemen, C ^a   Swoboda, M ^a  

^a ROLLS ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COMPRESSORS; FORECASTING; LEAKAGE (FLUID); NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; UNSTEADY FLOW;

AERODYNAMIC LOADING; AXIAL COMPRESSORS; COMPRESSOR ROTORS; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; NUMERICAL DESIGN; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; ROTOR FLOW FIELDS; TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES;

DESIGN;

EID: 84925400485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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