Computational investigation of the flow inside a Tesla turbine rotor

L. Ciappi, D. Fiaschi, P.H. Niknam and L. Talluri

Energy, 2019, vol. 173, issue C, 207-217

Abstract: Tesla expander is a bladeless turbine suited to low power range applications. In this article, a comparison between the performance prediction, as well as the assessment of the main flow characteristics, of a Tesla turbine working with organic fluids obtained through an in-house 2D code developed in EES environment and a simulation run with a computational fluid dynamics commercial software was done.

Keywords: Tesla turbine; CFD; ORC; Path lines; Fluid dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2019.01.158

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