Accession Number:

AD0637477

Title:

BUSHING CAVITATION AND PRESSURE PULSATION IN THE DRAFT TUBE OF A TURBINE.

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIV WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO

Personal Author(s):

• KOTENEV,I. V.
• Shalnev,K. K.

Report Date:

1966-04-01

Pagination or Media Count:

30.0

Abstract:

An investigation was made of the connection of pressure pulsations in the draft tube of a radial-axial turbine with the presence in the tube of bushing cavitation, i.e., cavitation concentrated near the bushing of the runner of a turbine and spreading to the draft tube.

Descriptors:

• *TURBINES
• *CAVITATION
• TURBINE COMPONENTS
• BUSHINGS
• USSR
• PRESSURE
• AXIAL FLOW TURBINES

Subject Categories:

• Non-electrical Energy Conversion
• Fluid Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE