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Design and Experiment of Rotating Fluid Flow in a Tesla Disc Turbine


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1 Mechanical Engineering Department, MCKV Institute of Engineering, Liluah, Howrah - 711204, West Bengal, India
 

Turbine discs were designed and building a prototype to improve the efficiency of the working fluid in Tesla turbines. The fluid flow field within tesla disc turbine have been investigated experimentally. The turbine is a bladeless centripetal and tangential flow turbine. The turbine runs by the principle of momentum transfer by developing a boundary layer on the smooth surfaces of the disks. Circular nozzles were analyzed using air as the working fluid and flow taken to be incompressible, turbulent and non-reacting. Different inlet velocity ranging from 20.0 to 70.0 m/s has been investigated. In the range investigated the lower velocity did not influenced the performance. Paper will develop an adequate design of nozzles contribute to increase the overall yield of a Tesla turbine.

Keywords

Design, Nozzle, Tesla Disc, Turbine, Velocity.
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Authors

Suvanjan Bhattacharyya
Mechanical Engineering Department, MCKV Institute of Engineering, Liluah, Howrah - 711204, West Bengal, India
Anindya Guin Ayan Haldar
Mechanical Engineering Department, MCKV Institute of Engineering, Liluah, Howrah - 711204, West Bengal, India
Samir Kumar Saha
Mechanical Engineering Department, MCKV Institute of Engineering, Liluah, Howrah - 711204, West Bengal, India

Abstract


Turbine discs were designed and building a prototype to improve the efficiency of the working fluid in Tesla turbines. The fluid flow field within tesla disc turbine have been investigated experimentally. The turbine is a bladeless centripetal and tangential flow turbine. The turbine runs by the principle of momentum transfer by developing a boundary layer on the smooth surfaces of the disks. Circular nozzles were analyzed using air as the working fluid and flow taken to be incompressible, turbulent and non-reacting. Different inlet velocity ranging from 20.0 to 70.0 m/s has been investigated. In the range investigated the lower velocity did not influenced the performance. Paper will develop an adequate design of nozzles contribute to increase the overall yield of a Tesla turbine.

Keywords


Design, Nozzle, Tesla Disc, Turbine, Velocity.

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