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Internal Flows in Turbomachines
Art: Ottomar Anschütz, Lilienthal im unruhigen Gleitflug, 1894 · Public domain
- Instructors
- Dr. Choon Tan, Prof. Edward Greitzer
- Term
- Spring 2006
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 19 other files · 3 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 16.540 Internal Flows in Turbomachines, Spring 2006, Dr. Choon Tan, Prof. Edward Greitzer — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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- This resource gives information on team angular momentum (cq1_a.pdf) Download
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- This resource gives information about flow in rotating ducts and flow on the rotating earth (part5a.pdf) Download
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Lecture 4: Introduction - Useful concepts Definition of vorticity Perspective on utility of the concepts Kinematics of vorticity; vortex lines and vortex tubes; behavior of vortex lines at a solid surface
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Lecture 7: Circulation changes in fluid motion Circulation changes in inviscid and viscous, incompressible and compressible fluids, with uniform and non-uniform density, with conservative and non-conservative body forces. Applications to flows of uniform and non-uniform density, creation of circulation in a non-uniform density flow.
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Lecture 8: Rotational flow descriptions in terms of vorticity and circulation Rotational flow in fluid components (nozzles, diffusers, blade rows). Relation between kinematic and thermodynamic properties in an inviscid, non-heat conducting flow; Crocco’s theorem; applications in fluid machinery. Viscosity and the generation of vorticity at solid surfaces. Velocity field associated with a vorticity distribution, numerical methods based on the velocity-vorticity relationship, examples for two-dimensional and axisymmetric flow.
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Lecture 9: Further applications of the concepts Mixing enhancement due to streamwise vorticity, lobed mixer nozzles. Fluid impulse and the generation of vorticity, streamwise vorticity structure and the evolution of a jet in crossflow.
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Lecture 10: Introduction to concepts, metrics for loss Introduction: Appropriate metrics for loss Lost work, entropy generation, and irreversibility Losses in spatially uniform and non-uniform flow
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Lecture 11: Boundary layer losses Entropy generation in boundary layers Entropy production and dissipation coefficient Estimation of turbomachinery blade profile losses
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Lecture 12: Mixing losses Introduction to mixing losses - Control volume analysis Mixing of two streams with non-uniform stagnation properties Mixing loss from fluid injection into a stream Irreversibility generation in mixing
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Lecture 15: Further aspects of mixing loss, examples, and applications Effect of pressure level on average properties and mixing losses Examples: Two-stream mixing, linear shear flow mixing in diffusers and nozzles, wake mixing Loss characterization in turbomachinery cascades
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Lecture 16: Useful concepts Coriolis and centrifugal forces in a rotating coordinate system Velocity fields in the inertial and the rotating coordinate systems Equations of motion in a rotating coordinate system Non-dimensional parameters in a rotating flow Conserved quantities in a steady rotating flow The role of the reduced static pressure
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Lecture 17: Phenomena in flows where rotation dominates Conditions in which effects of rotation dominate The taylor-proudman theorem (two different perspectives) Viscous flows (ekman layers) on rotating surfaces
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Lecture 18: Rotating channel flow in constant area straight passages Two-dimensional inviscid flow in a rotating straight channel Fully developed flow in a rotating straight channel Boundary layers in rotating straight channels
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Lecture 25: Elements of compressor stability modeling Low-order description of asymmetric flow in compressors, onset of rotating stall
MIT OpenCourseWare, Dr. Choon Tan, Prof. Edward Greitzer, 16.540 Internal Flows in Turbomachines, Spring 2006.
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