An Investigation of nucleating flows of steam in a cascade of turbine blading-theoretical treatment

This paper describes the theoretical part of an investigation into nucleating flows of steam in a cascade turbine nozzle blading. The main flow field is regarded as in viscid and treated by the time-marching technique. The viscous effects are assumed to be concentrated in boundary layers which are treated by the integral method. The agreement obtained with the observed surface pressure distributions and overall efficiency measurements is very good.

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