Research Article

Secondary Flow Loss Reduction in a Turbine Cascade with a Linearly Varied Height Streamwise Endwall Fence

Table 5

Mass averaged CSKE for fences of different height placed at different locations.

S. no.Fence location and fence height ( /s, ) % reduction in

11/3, 1/60.002103 −9.3
21/2, 1/60.001948
32/3, 1/60.002004 −13.5
41/3, 1/30.002035 −12.3
51/2, 1/30.001938
62/3, 1/30.001979 −14.7
71/2, 2/50.001955 −15.7
81/3, 2/30.00342 47.5
91/2, 2/30.002031 −12.4
102/3, 2/30.001947 −16.1
111/3, 10.00513 121.2
121/2, 10.002334 0.6
132/3, 10.00254 9.5
141/2, 4/30.002803 20.9
151/2, (height linearly increasing from 1/6 to 1/3)0.001674
16 Baseline0.002319