The Rocketdyne Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) cryogenic, rocket engine system, high pressure, liquid hydrogen turbopump was designed with a two-stage, partial-admission axial turbine. The turbine is basically two single-stage, partial-admission, subsonic impulse stages designed so the kinetic energy leaving the first-stage rotor is discharged directly into the second-stage nozzle at nominal operation to minimize staging losses. Very little data were available in the literature for this type of turbine design. Therefore, it was decided to test a full-size model of the turbine design using ambient-temperature gaseous nitrogen as the working fluid. The tester design features a variable orientation second-stage nozzle to determine the optimum circumferential location for highest performance. The tester also features the capability to vary the nozzle arcs of admission and incorporates quartz windows to study the flowfield upstream of the second-stage nozzle using a laser velocimeter. The test operations will probe the efficiency and flow characteristics for three arcs of admission and the effects of second-stage nozzle circumferential orientations over wide ranges of speed and pressure ratios as well as the interstage pressure distributions.


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    Title :

    Small, two-stage, partial-admission turbine


    Contributors:
    Sutton, R. F. (author) / Boynton, J. L. (author) / Scheer, D. (author)


    Publication date :

    1985-04-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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