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8.2.3.4. Axial machines 299
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8.2.4. Fundamentals of pitting rate as function of velocity 302
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8.2.4.1. Introduction 302
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8.2.4.2. Assumptions about wall-attached cavity and its erosion 303
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8.2.4.3. Realization of the approach 303
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8.2.4.4. Erosion rate as a function of the velocity
w,
305
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8.3. Water hammer 306
8.3.1. Celerity, fundamentals of method of characteristics in the
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c,
p.plane 306
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8.3.2. Fundamentals of method of characteristics in the
s
t-plane
308
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8.3.3. Application of method of characteristics in
x,
2-plane 310
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8.3.4. The celerity a in two phase mixture 310
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8.3.5. Influence of evaporation and diffusion 312
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8.3.6. Boundary conditions in the p, c-plane, loss influence 313
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8.3.7.
Examples of the method of characteristics in the
c,
p-plane 315
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8.3.8. Characteristics method in the c, o-plane 319
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8.3.9. Remedies against water hammer 320
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9
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Similarity laws. characteristics.
research
322
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9.1. Introduction 322
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9.2. Similarity laws and characteristice of machines
323
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9.2.1. Criteria of similarity. numbers of Froude. Euler. Reynolds 323
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9.2.2. The unit values of speed. flow. power 324
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9.2:3. The type number (specific speed) 325
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9.2.4. The efficiency hill diagram 330
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9.2.5. The cam curves of double regulated turbines 333
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9.3. Head and efficiency measurement by the thermodynamic method
334
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9.3.1. Specific head. enthalpy. component measurement 334
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9.3.2. Fundamentals of thermodynamic head measurement 336
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9.3.3. Thermodynamic measurement of internal efficiency 338
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9.3.4. Conventional measurement of internal efficiency 339
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9.3.5. The scale effect of internal efficiency 341
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9.3.6. Several efficiences and their measurement 344
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9.4. Experimental techniques 345
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9.4.1. Instrumentation for steady flow 345
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9.4.1.1. Manometers 345
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9.4.1.2. The measurement of velocity by piezometry 347
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9.4.1.3. Pressure measurement by air injection 351
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9.4.2. Calibration of probes for arbitrary flow 352
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9.4.3. Methods for dynamical measurements of unsteady flow 352
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9.4.3.1. General remarks on unsteady flow 352
9.4.3.2. Velocity measurement
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353
9.4.3.3. Measurement of pressure
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354
9.4.4. Problems arising with rotating probes
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355
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9.4.4.1. General remarks about rotating probes 355
9.4.4.2. Transmission of values measured from rotor to stationary indicator
356
9.4.4.3. Scanning valve for connection of rotating tappings with stationary
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manometers 356
9.4.5. Measurement of the torque
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357
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