An advanced single-stage turbine facility for investigating non-axisymmetric contoured endwalls in the presence of purge flow
Robin Jones,
Oliver Pountney,
Bjorn Cleton,
Liam Wood,
Buchan Schreiner,
Artur Joao Carvalho Batista Soares De Figueiredo,
James Scobie,
David Cleaver,
Gary Lock,
Carl Sangan
Oct 01, 2019
In modern gas turbines, endwall contouring (EWC) is employed to modify the static pressure field downstream of the vanes and minimise the growth of secondary flow structures developed in the blade passage. Purge flow (or egress)...