Abstract
During the course of expansion in turbines, steam first supercools and then nucleates to become a two-phase mixture. Formation and subsequent behaviour of the liquid lower the performance of turbine wet stages. This is an area where greater understanding can lead to improved design. This paper describes the theoretical part of an investigation into nucleating flows of steam in a cascade of turbine rotor tip section blading. The main flow field is regarded as inviscid and treated by the time-marching technique modified to allow for two-phase effects. The viscous effects are assumed to be concentrated in boundary layers which are treated by the integral method. Comparisons are carried out with the experimental measurements presented in the earlier parts of the paper and the agreement obtained is good.
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