@ARTICLE{Koprowski_Arkadiusz_Computational_2021,
 author={Koprowski, Arkadiusz and Rządkowski, Romuald},
 volume={vol. 42},
 number={No 3},
 journal={Archives of Thermodynamics},
 pages={197-208},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2021},
 publisher={The Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences},
 abstract={In small steam turbines, sometimes the efficiency is not as important as the cost of manufacturing the turbine. The Curtis wheel is a solution allowing to develop a low output turbine of compact size and with a low number of stages. This paper presents three fully dimensional computational fluid dynamics cases of a Curtis stage with full and partial admission. A 1 MW steam turbine with a Curtis stage have been designed. The fully admitted stage reaches a power of over 3 MW. In order to limit its output power to about 1 MW, the partial admission was applied. Five variants of the Curtis stage partial admission were analyzed. Theoretical relations were used to predict the partial admission losses which were compared with a three-dimensional simulations. An analysis of the flow and forces acting on rotor blades was also performed.},
 type={Article},
 title={Computational fluid dynamics analysis of several designs of a Curtis wheel},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121384/PDF/art10_final.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/ather.2021.138116},
 keywords={Steam turbines, Curtis stage, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Partial admission},
}