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The Compressible Flow Through Cascade Actuator Discs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

J. H. Horlock
J. H. Horlock*
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University Engineering Laboratory, Cambridge
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Summary

A theory of the incompressible flow through two- and three-dimensional cascade actuator discs has been developed by several workers over the past ten years, and its accuracy has been confirmed in several experiments. This theory is briefly reviewed, and a parallel theory for subsonic compressible flow through actuator discs is developed. Approximate solutions for several examples are considered, including a compressible shear flow through a two-dimensional cascade, and a compressible flow through an annular cascade of guide vanes.

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Aeronautical Quarterly , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , May 1958, pp. 110 - 130
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1958

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