Pressure Recovery of Rotating Diffuser With Distorted Inflows

Abstract

The pressure recovery and velocity distributions in a two-dimensional rotating curved diffuser have been studied experimentally when even and uneven flows, respectively, were introduced to the diffuser. Two types of uneven flow were adopted; one has a linear velocity gradient on the surface of revolution and the other a linear velocity gradient in the meridian plane. The pressure recovery in the diffuser is improved by the unformalizing process of the uneven inlet velocities in the downstream sections if larger velocities are in the suction side region, but it is deteriorated if larger velocities are introduced in the pressure side region. When an uneven flow with a velocity gradient in the meridian plane is introduced to the diffuser, increased rotation speed and the gradient of the inlet velocity profile deteriorate the pressure recovery.