Effects of blade skew in an axial flow rotor of controlled vortex design

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Vad, J ^a   Kwedikha, A R A ^a   Kristof G ^a   Lohasz M M ^a   Rabai G ^a   Racz N ^a   Watanabe, K ^a,b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AXIAL FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DESIGN; FANS; ROTORS; THERMODYNAMICS; VORTEX FLOW;

AXIAL FAN ROTOR; AXIAL FLOW ROTOR; GLOBAL PERFORMANCE; OPERATING POINTS; OPERATING RANGES; PEAK EFFICIENCY; PEAK PRESSURE; TOTAL PRESSURE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84925433424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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