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From: Effect of Blade Skew Strategies on the Operating Range and Aeroacoustic Performance of the Wells Turbine
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Figure Legend:
Schematic coaxial cascade section; left: turbine blade element (BE) with control volume (CV), velocity triangles, and induced angular force δFu; right: vector mean relative flow velocity and flow angle

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From: Effect of Blade Skew Strategies on the Operating Range and Aeroacoustic Performance of the Wells Turbine
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Figure Legend:
Skewed Wells turbine rotors; left: backward skewed blade (δ < 0 deg); middle: straight blade (δ = 0 deg); right: forward skewed blade (δ > 0 deg); all forms can be combined in one blade

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Figure Legend:
Wells turbine rotor; left: loss analysis; right: blade element (BE)

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From: Effect of Blade Skew Strategies on the Operating Range and Aeroacoustic Performance of the Wells Turbine
J. Turbomach. 2013;136(1): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Local lift correction μloss as a function of the distance from a wall at y/L = 0 for various constant skew angles δ

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Figure Legend:
Numerical domain

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Figure Legend:
Test facility: (a) housing, (b) splitter attenuator, (c) centrifugal fan, (d) splitter attenuator, (e) plenum, (f) honeycombs and turbulence control screens, (g) nozzle, (h) static pressure measurement, (i) static pressure measurement, (j) honeycombs, (k) turbine section; dimensions in mm

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From: Effect of Blade Skew Strategies on the Operating Range and Aeroacoustic Performance of the Wells Turbine
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Figure Legend:
Acoustic measurement setup (j) honeycomb screen, (l) nose cone, (m) rotor with torque flange, (n) flow traverse position, (o) generator, (p) generator struts, (q) reference sound source (RSS), (r) microphone; dimensions in mm

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From: Effect of Blade Skew Strategies on the Operating Range and Aeroacoustic Performance of the Wells Turbine
J. Turbomach. 2013;136(1): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Comparison of turbine (Lp) and background sound pressure (Lp,bgn) at microphone position according to Fig. 6; turbine is operated at its design point; frequency resolution: Δf = 8 Hz

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From: Effect of Blade Skew Strategies on the Operating Range and Aeroacoustic Performance of the Wells Turbine
J. Turbomach. 2013;136(1): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Complete set of aeroacoustic steady-state characteristics; (a) flow coefficient, (b) power coefficient, (c) total-static efficiency, (d) specific sound power level

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From: Effect of Blade Skew Strategies on the Operating Range and Aeroacoustic Performance of the Wells Turbine
J. Turbomach. 2013;136(1): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Measured and predicted flow field data: radial distributions of circumferentially averaged rotor exit flow quantities (traverse position (n), Fig. 7) at ψts = 0.38; (a) axial velocity, (b) circumferential velocity, (c) blade work

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From: Effect of Blade Skew Strategies on the Operating Range and Aeroacoustic Performance of the Wells Turbine
J. Turbomach. 2013;136(1): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Blade loading at the hub from RANS (ψts = 0.38, r/rtip = 0.51)

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Figure Legend:
Blade area with separated flow versus turbine pressure head (from RANS)

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J. Turbomach. 2013;136(1): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Skin friction coefficient and “surface” stream lines at suction surface; ψts = 0.38 (from RANS)

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From: Effect of Blade Skew Strategies on the Operating Range and Aeroacoustic Performance of the Wells Turbine
J. Turbomach. 2013;136(1): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Measured narrow band sound power spectra; (a) ψts = 0.38, (b) ψts = 0.60; frequency resolution of Δf = 8 Hz