Esmail Lakzian

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of volumetric heating on condensing steam flow in the stationary cascade of turbine blades and the losses associated with wetness was analyzed, and the numerical results showed that by applying VOLUMetric heating to the convergent section, the wetness fraction in the turbine blades can be reduced which prevent corrosion losses.

TL;DR: In this paper, a variable chord rotor Wells turbine design is proposed in order to have a more uniform axial velocity distribution at blades leading edge in comparing conventional design to improve turbine efficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on entropy generation and exergy destruction of condensing steam flow in turbine blade with the roughness and established the governing equations including entropy transport equation combined with condensation model, transition SST model and roughness correlation.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D turbulence model was used to simulate the airflow in the classroom, and a Lagrangian particle trajectory analysis method is used to track the droplets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of blade thickness on the performance of a Wells turbine are discussed based on aerodynamic and entropy generation analysis, and the results reveal that entropy generation seems to give an advantageous effect of reducing the separation at the tip section of the VTB in deep stall condition.