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For blade conguration in general, see airfoil. For 1 Flow over isolated airfoil
how it is linked to turbomachinery application, see
Turbomachinery.
Blade solidity is an important parameter that inter relates turbomachine parameter to airfoil parameter .Lift
Blade solidity is an important design parameter for the and drag coecient for an airfoil is inter related to blade
axial ow impeller and is dened as the ratio of blade solidity as shown :
chord length to pitch.
CL = 2(s/c)(tan 1 tan 2 )cosm
angle of attack
chord line
camber line
Cd =
upper surface
relative wind
(s) (
c
p0
W12 /2
leading edge
max. thickness
max. camber
where
lower surface
trailing edge
CL is lift coecient
Airfoil nomenclature
Where
s = 2rm /Zb
Zb is blade number
Wm is mean ow velocity
s is pitch
b is the wingspan
c is the chord length
1
c
10
=
s
(Dh /Dt )(Ns /1000)1.5
where
Dh
Dt
See also
Aerodynamics
Turbomachinery
Axial-ow pump
Mechanical fan
Compressors
Autorotation_(helicopter)
References
Peng, William W. (2008), Fundamentals of Turbomachinery, Wiley, ISBN 978-0-470-12422-2
Venkanna, B.K. (2009), Fundamentals of Turbomachinery, PHI learning private limited, ISBN 978-81203-3775-6
Turton, R.K. (1995), Principles of turbomachinery,
Springer (New Delhi), ISBN 8184896042
Rama, S.R. Gorla (2003), Turbomachinery Design
and Theory, Marcel Dekker ,Inc., ISBN 0-82470980-2
Yahya, S.M. (2002), Turbines, compressors and
fans, TMH, ISBN 0070707022
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