Abstract
Recently, engineering problems associated with two-phase flows in turbomachinery have become increasingly important in relation to the safety analysis of nuclear reactors or the usage of low quality energy resources; the research on this subject has been promoted. It is a really knotty problem caused by the multiform flow patterns as well as the variety of its applications. However, the mechanics in two-phase machines may involve similar phenomena. In this paper, developments of the research of air-water mixtures in turbomachinery well be briefly reviewed, and the mechanics of two-phase flows in rotating flow fields and the prediction methods of the performance of turbomachinery based on some analytical models are discussed.
