The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 454
triangle ABC. The function of the curved vane CD,or of the channel between two successivevanes, is to change the direction of thesteam current so that it escapes withthe relative velocity V2, here equal toVi and making the same angle with the line of bucket movement. Thedj-Tiamic pressure of the… … Fig. 306. — Velocity Diagram. 440 ACTION OF THE STEAM IN THE TURBINE. [Chap. IX. the absolute exit velocity of the steam. The decrease in kinetic jetenergy which accompanies the drop from V to Vo is equal to the workdone by the steam in driving the turbine wheel — except that a portionof this…
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