The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 489
ctions of Curtis wheels in Figs. 23 and 359. Withoutsuch gradual enlargement, the current would back up and the pressurebe higher on the nozzle side of the wheel. These remarks refer espe-cially to multiple-impulse wheels of the Curtis type, but apply in a lowerdegree to single vane rows in the… … Fig. 337. — Behavior of the Jet in the Bucket or Vane Channel. represented by dotted lines. To compensate for this and get a largerdriving component from the reaction of the escaping jet, impulse vanesare now often made as shown at III in Fig. 337, with a narrower angleof exit ABD than of entrance…
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