Title

Wet steam flow in 1100 MW turbine

Journal title

Archives of Thermodynamics

Yearbook

2021

Volume

vol. 42

Issue

No 3

Affiliation

Jun, Gukchol : Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 4, 160 00, Prague, Czech Republic ; Jun, Gukchol : Doosan Škoda Power s.r.o., Tylova 1/57, 301 28, Pilsen, Czech Republic ; Kolovratník, Michal : Doosan Škoda Power s.r.o., Tylova 1/57, 301 28, Pilsen, Czech Republic ; Hoznedl, Michal : Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 4, 160 00, Prague, Czech Republic

Authors

Jun, Gukchol ; Kolovratník, Michal ; Hoznedl, Michal

Keywords

Steam turbine ; Wet steam loss ; Non-equilibrium condensation ; CFD

Divisions of PAS

Nauki Techniczne

Coverage

63-85

Publisher

The Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery Polish Academy of Sciences

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Date

2021.11.09

Type

Article

Identifier

DOI: 10.24425/ather.2021.138110

Editorial Board

International Advisory Board

J. Bataille, Ecole Central de Lyon, Ecully, France

A. Bejan, Duke University, Durham, USA

W. Blasiak, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

G. P. Celata, ENEA, Rome, Italy

L.M. Cheng, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

M. Colaco, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

J. M. Delhaye, CEA, Grenoble, France

M. Giot, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

K. Hooman, University of Queensland, Australia

D. Jackson, University of Manchester, UK

D.F. Li, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

K. Kuwagi, Okayama University of Science, Japan

J. P. Meyer, University of Pretoria, South Africa

S. Michaelides, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth Texas, USA

M. Moran, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

W. Muschik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

I. Müller, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

H. Nakayama, Japanese Atomic Energy Agency, Japan

S. Nizetic, University of Split, Croatia

H. Orlande, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

M. Podowski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA

A. Rusanov, Institute for Mechanical Engineering Problems NAS, Kharkiv, Ukraine

M. R. von Spakovsky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

A. Vallati, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

H.R. Yang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China