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Turbine Cascade (Viscous Case) : Drag

This document discusses the concepts of drag, lift, and efficiency as they relate to turbine cascades. Drag increases lift for turbine blades, making drag an useful component for generating work. Blade efficiency, also called diffusion efficiency, is defined as the ratio of actual pressure rise to ideal pressure rise. Due to viscous effects, actual pressure rise is reduced from the ideal rise calculated without considering viscosity. Blade efficiency is maximized when the ratio of exit swirl to inlet relative velocity is approximately 0.9.

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Turbine Cascade (Viscous Case) : Drag

This document discusses the concepts of drag, lift, and efficiency as they relate to turbine cascades. Drag increases lift for turbine blades, making drag an useful component for generating work. Blade efficiency, also called diffusion efficiency, is defined as the ratio of actual pressure rise to ideal pressure rise. Due to viscous effects, actual pressure rise is reduced from the ideal rise calculated without considering viscosity. Blade efficiency is maximized when the ratio of exit swirl to inlet relative velocity is approximately 0.9.

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Turbine Cascade (Viscous case)

Drag =

Effective lift =

Actual lift coefficient,


The drag increases the lift. Thus, thedrag is an useful component for work.

Blade efficiency (or diffusion efficiency)


For a compressor cascade, the blade efficiency is defined as:

Due to viscous effect, static pressure rise is reduced

from velocity triangle:

Also we get

[Approximation:
i.e.in
the expression for lift, the effect of
drag is ignored]

-maximum, if

The value of

for which efficiency is maximum,

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