“EVALUATION OF TESLA TURBO MACHINE AS TURBINE”

Mechanical Engineering

Turbo-machine applications have a several alternatives, each of which emanates to help build the world of power. One of these ideas is ‘The Tesla turbine’, which is also referred to as a bladeless turbine or friction turbine. A turbine is a machine that transforms rotational energy from a fluid that is picked up by a rotor system into usable work or energy. The principle of Tesla turbine comes from two main rudiments of physics: Adhesion and Viscosity, instead of the conventional energy transfer mechanism in traditional turbines. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional turbine. In this Analysis by the means of changing mass flow rate and proper design of bladeless rotor the efficiency is to be calculated and the analysis of viscous fluid that can be transferred is to be measured. The Turbo machine will also be analyzed as a turbine for a viscous fluid transfer and will be compared with the previous cfd analysis.

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