Publication Date:
2019-06-27
Description:
The aerodynamic performance of a solid vane was experimentally determined in a full-annular cascade, where three-dimensional effects could be obtained. This vane was of the same size and profile as the cooled vanes to be subsequently tested. The vanes were tested over a pressure ratio range that corresponded to mean-radius ideal aftermixed critical velocity ratios of 0.71 to 0.89. Overall vane aftermixed efficiencies were obtained over this range of critical velocity ratios and compared with results from a four-vane annular-sector cascade. The variation in vane aftermixed conditions and vane aftermixed efficiency with radius were also obtained and compared with design values. Vane surface static-pressure distributions were measured and compared with theory and with the results obtained in the four-vane cascade.
Keywords:
AERODYNAMICS
Type:
NASA-TM-X-3006
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E-7699
Format:
application/pdf