Consider a family of turbines each having a flow coefficient phi = 0.4 blade aspect ratio H / b = 3 and Reynolds number Re = 10 ^ 5 Calculate and plot ne and ne versus degree of reaction for stage loading factors V of 1, 2 and 3 using Soderberg's correlation. For each loading factor find the degree of reactions which yield maximum nt and ns ,respectively

Consider a family of turbines each having a flow coefficient phi = 0.4 blade aspect ratio H / b = 3 and Reynolds number Re = 10 ^ 5 Calculate and plot ne and ne versus degree of reaction for stage loading factors V of 1, 2 and 3 using Soderberg's correlation. For each loading factor find the degree of reactions which yield maximum nt and ns ,respectively

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