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The use of coloured smoke to visualize secondary flows in a turbine-blade cascade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

C. H. Sieverding
Affiliation:
von Kármán Institute for Fluid Dynamics, B-1640 Rhode Saint Genèse, Belgium
P. Van den Bosche
Affiliation:
von Kármán Institute for Fluid Dynamics, B-1640 Rhode Saint Genèse, Belgium Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium

Abstract

A coloured-smoke-visualization technique has been developed for the investigation of complex three-dimensional fluid flows. In particular, a coloured-smoke wire technique is used for the study of secondary flows in straight turbine cascades. Based on a large number of photographs and direct flow observation, the evolution of horseshoe and passage vortices through a high-turning turbine-blade passage is described.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1983 Cambridge University Press

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