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Wakes in Axial Compressors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

W. F. Wiles*
Affiliation:
Aero Engine Division, Rolls-Royce Ltd.

Extract

The note in the July Journal by H. Pearson and A. B. McKenzie (p. 415) shows that the flow into an axial compressor is nearly at a constant velocity at all points in the entry plane; and that if a wake of low energy air is fed into it, the compressor reduces the static pressure locally in this wake, in such a way as to tend to preserve constant velocity over the whole face.

Type
Technical Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1959

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