Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2019
Date 12-Apr
Volume 222
Issue 4,610
Page 566
Category Turbine
Part 12
Title Steam Turbines Large and Miniature. What causes poor efficiency?
Author Mike Tilby
Notes Explores the technology, history and modelling of steam turbines. What causes poor efficiency? Shock, horror - potential losses in De Laval nozzles, research on nozzles, nozzle flow rate, measurement of steam velocity, velocity coefficient, performance of miniature nozzles, references, where does the lost energy go? Acknowledgement, tom Jones