NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SPONTANEOUSLY CONDENSING FLOWS IN A PLANE TURBINE CASCADE

Abstract

The low efficiency of wet steam turbine is mainly attributed to wetness losses. To investigate the mechanisms which give rise to these losses, a fully Eulerian model has been developed for calculation of the wet steam flows with spontaneous condensation. In this model, the liquid phase is described with two conservation equations in Eulerian form and coupled with a solver of gas dynamics equations. With such a model, the existing code for simulation of single-phase flows can easily be changed to include wet steam two-phase flows in wet steam turbines. A numerical simulation of condensing flow in a plane turbine cascade is performed, and the numerical results are presented and compared with the experimental results.