The Euler Turbine Equation relates the power added to or removed from a fluid flow to characteristics of a rotating blade row. It is based on conservation of angular momentum and energy. The equation states that the torque on the blade row is equal to the rate of change of angular momentum in the fluid flow. If the torque and angular velocity have the same sign, work is being done on the fluid as in a compressor. If the signs are opposite, work is being extracted from the fluid as in a turbine.
The Euler Turbine Equation relates the power added to or removed from a fluid flow to characteristics of a rotating blade row. It is based on conservation of angular momentum and energy. The equation states that the torque on the blade row is equal to the rate of change of angular momentum in the fluid flow. If the torque and angular velocity have the same sign, work is being done on the fluid as in a compressor. If the signs are opposite, work is being extracted from the fluid as in a turbine.
The Euler Turbine Equation relates the power added to or removed from a fluid flow to characteristics of a rotating blade row. It is based on conservation of angular momentum and energy. The equation states that the torque on the blade row is equal to the rate of change of angular momentum in the fluid flow. If the torque and angular velocity have the same sign, work is being done on the fluid as in a compressor. If the signs are opposite, work is being extracted from the fluid as in a turbine.
The Euler Turbine Equation relates the power added to or removed from a fluid flow to characteristics of a rotating blade row. It is based on conservation of angular momentum and energy. The equation states that the torque on the blade row is equal to the rate of change of angular momentum in the fluid flow. If the torque and angular velocity have the same sign, work is being done on the fluid as in a compressor. If the signs are opposite, work is being extracted from the fluid as in a turbine.
Figure : Control volume for Euler Turbine Equation
The Euler turbine equation relates the power added to or removed from the flow, to characteristics of a rotating blade row. The equation is based on the concepts of conservation of angular momentum and conservation of energy.
Applying conservation of angular momentum, we note that the
torque (T) must be equal to the time rate of change of angular momentum in a streamtube that flows through the device Linear momentum = m velocity Angular momentum = radius of rotation m vel.
This is true whether the blade row is rotating or not.
The sign matters (i.e. angular momentum is a vector- positive means it is spinning in one direction, negative means it is spinning in the other direction). So depending on how things are defined, there can be positive and negative torques, and positive and negative angular momentum.
Torque is positive when --
If the blade row is moving, then work is done on/by the fluid. The work per unit time, or power (P) is the torque multiplied by the angular velocity (w) : Eq.( 1)
If torque and angular velocity are of like sign, work is being done on the fluid (a compressor). If torque and angular velocity are of opposite sign work is being extracted from the fluid (a turbine). If the tangential velocity increases across a blade row (where positive tangential velocity is defined in the same direction as the rotor motion) then work is added to the flow (this happens in a compressor).
If the tangential velocity decreases across a blade row (where positive
tangential velocity is defined in the same direction as the rotor motion) then work is removed from the flow (this happens in a turbine).
