Research on turbine flowfield analysis methods

This report contains a description of conformal mapping procedures that can be used to generate computational grids for turbomachinery flowfield calculations, and to determine the incompressible potential flow on such a grid. The mapping procedures represent an extension of the Ives transformation to blade rows having a high solidity. The flowfield solution takes advantage of the fact that one of the mapping steps takes the blade row into a unit circle; by writing down the classical source/sink/vortex solution in this circle, it is possible to find the incompressible potential flow in the original cascade. This solution is of interest in its own right, and provides a useful initial condition for iterative or time marching calculational method.