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Turbulent Flow In A Turbine

AREA OF RESEARCH
Fluid Flow Dynamics

PROJECT NAME
Turbulent Flow In A Turbine

DATES
Fall, 1992

RESEARCHERS
Budugur Lakshminarayana

DEPARTMENT
Aerospace Engineering

DESCRIPTION

This project visualized turbulent flow in the compressor stage of a turbine. Instantaneous pressure, velocity and flow direction were displayed in the resulting animation. Compressor blades move during the animation and are in the proper position and orientation for each time step.


VISUALIZATION CREDITS
Programming: Ray Masters
Software: Data Explorer, V2.1.0
Hardware: IBM RS6000

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