Initial investigations of transonic turbine aerodynamics using the Carleton University High-Speed Wind Tunnel

In recent years, Carleton University has been commissioning a high-speed blow down wind tunnel. The wind tunnel was commissioned to support on-going axial turbine research efforts and to provide a facility for transonic turbine cascade research. Much effort has been made at Carleton to investigate the performance of axial turbines at off-design conditions and to develop correlations to be used for predicting turbine off-design performance. The current study was a contribution to the off-design work being done at Carleton.; This thesis describes the first transonic turbine cascade study conducted using the Carleton University High-Speed Wind Tunnel. To document the Carleton wind tunnel capabilities, cascade measurements were taken and compared to four European wind tunnels using the same cascade at equivalent conditions. The development of experimental procedures used at Carleton and estimates of measurement uncertainties are also presented in this text. Measurements at off-design incidences were made using a transonic turbine cascade to increase the body of published data on off-design turbine performance.