From the SiliconANGLE Media office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Stu Miniman. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman, and welcome to a special presentation of theCUBE here in our Boston area studio. Happy to welcome to the program Mike Epigen, Mike's senior director of education services at Dell EMC. Mike, great to talk to you. Thanks, Stu, thanks for having me. Talk about careers, you talk about jobs. When you're talking to partners and end users, what are some of the biggest concerns they have, and especially, you know, how do things like skill sets and training fit into it? Yeah, sure, I mean, it's twofold, really. It's part of it's the technology and how the technology industry is changing so fast and to your point, needing to keep up with that, which is blistering. So that's definitely a big challenge we look to address. And then the other part of it is just time, time in the day, and the ability to get out of work, to train, and that's actually driven a big shift in the industry to different ways of learning, different types of learning experiences that don't require someone to be in a physical classroom all the time. Yeah, I have to imagine that that's the case. Tell us, what's the state of certification these days? You know, there's always debates in the industry. It's like, ah, you know, have I just had the same certification for the last 20 years and I just kind of go through the road? Or what am I learning on the job? How are my certifications changing? You mentioned kind of remote versus there. You know, what's the industry look like these days? There is a big focus, as there always has been, around certifications on specific technologies, vendors, products, and obviously at Dell EMC. We have a big focus there. We have a portfolio of certifications to meet that need. But what we see in the market and hear loud and clear from our customers is that with all the change going on and the change driving, IT professionals need to be skilled, knowledgeable, proficient in much more than specific products and technologies. It's really the connection across multiple domains, infrastructure, applications, and security, which is really the interesting part of it and opportunity for us. What is the focus, you know, and why does the Dell family of companies, you know, have a right to kind of be, you know, a major partner for users in doing those certifications in the education? Yeah, we feel there's no one in a better position to really help build that knowledge and validate those skillsets based upon, first and foremost, Dell EMC's breadth of infrastructure and the capabilities there and with certifications really broadening across that infrastructure, looking at it more holistically. And then when you think about the family of Dell Technologies and bringing in VMware and Virtustream and Pivotal and RSA, very much adjacent technologies and broader solutions that really tie into what we envision and what we see and hear from our customers as defining and requiring the skillsets of the future. Give us a landscape of what the certifications look like today and you've got some news that you're going to tell us about, you know, what's new today also. Yeah, yeah, I mean, the state of current state today is, as I mentioned, very product centric, maybe a combination of products and moving forward now, we're excited to have more transformational certifications which span those different domains. So for example, as organizations to begin to or continue to modernize their data centers, implement integrated systems, convert systems, it requires a different skill set to manage and support that infrastructure that's now being deployed and leveraged in a different way, just as one example. You know, you said across multiple domains, but bring us inside a little bit just to know what's involved here. Yeah, yeah, certainly. So there's definitely a simplicity aspect to it, absolutely contrasted to deep expertise in server storage network, but that dynamic with the converge in hyper-converged infrastructure is actually administrator that they may not need to have as much depth in any of those areas, but they need to have breadth across all of them, right, also skill sets, knowledge and experience around different cloud and operating models to really round out the skill sets required there. Okay, who are these, you know, certifications targeted at? You know, what kind of stage in their careers? You know, what kind of path is there?  Sure, so the new certifications that we have, it really spans quite a range, right? We have associate level certifications. Think of that as very foundational in concepts, which aren't even anchored specifically on Dell EMC products, but more concepts around converged infrastructure, cloud, hybrid cloud environments and concepts. For something like that at that associate level, it could be a technical person, a technical professional, it could be a business professional. It could be someone coming out of a university or even while they're in a university that's focused in building some knowledge and some skill set to enter the IT industry. So for that, there's a pretty broad spectrum. And then as you go up the levels or tiers within our certification program, as you'd expect more advanced, higher levels of knowledge and as you get up to the highest tiers in the program, it's really not just grounded on knowledge, but actually real world experience. And in some cases, the experience required may be five years of the right experience or in some cases with our new enterprise architect certification. It's at minimum 15 years of experience. How do you balance that and how does that fit in kind of IT with business and those various skill sets? Yeah. Great question, because you're right on about the technologies. There's the role itself in that example, architecting enterprise-wide solutions where there's extent in many years of experience required. But when it comes down to a technology perspective, obviously the shelf life on many of those is not quite that long. So it is a balance there. What I'd also say is that what these certifications help validate and what we see required in the market today is not just that technical focus, but very much so the business focus, the business acumen and the ability to engage with the business, understand business requirements, the corporate strategy, if you will, where they're going, and really translate or convert that into enterprise architecture. And enterprise architecture, that's very different than the past, that more sets the stage for an organization to be successful moving forward. Yeah, so if I hear you right, it's really a pairing of the technology and the business and making sure that there's good partnership there. Absolutely. Okay, you mentioned kind of skill set in the market. What are some of the big gaps? What are customers coming and saying, hey, I've got people with skills, but I need to retrain them? Where's the place where you see the biggest opportunity today that some of these new certifications are helping? Yeah, a couple that come top to mind. First one is security, a hot topic everywhere. And a critical step in that, in implementing security is making sure the infrastructure is secure, right? We hear that over and over again. And what we see is that a very product-oriented approach in IT to securing products or parts of the infrastructure. So one of the new certifications where we're excited to have brought to market is infrastructure security. And it's looking across the spectrum, across all Dell EMC infrastructure, as well as connections to VMware and other vendors. And it's really focused on taking a security-first approach and implementing the right security controls in the infrastructure to meet an organization's security policy and requirements. So security, you know, super hot. What else from the announcement do you want to make sure people understand some of the new pieces that are helping on these transformations? You know, I think another area that is definitely worth a shout-out is the deployment of multi-cloud environments and Dell EMC infrastructure, private cloud, connectivity and integration with different public cloud providers. That's what our large customers around the globe are doing. That's one of the biggest problems we've seen is the operating environment for that multi-cloud world is challenging for customers. There is no single pane of glass. And if I'm a Dell customer working with Azure and Azure Stack, I've got one thing. If I'm then a VMware customer and I'm looking at VM, where the Amazon, that can be very different. And customers are stuck in the middle. How do you, from an education standpoint, live in that multi-cloud world? What do you do? Where do you say, oh, hey, I've got an associate program here, but you might want to take the AWS associate program here and terminology and multi-cloud environments? Yeah, yeah. So the certification is called the Multi-Cloud Administrator Expert Certification. And there's a path to get there. There's actually multiple paths to get there. And it really focuses in anchors around Dell EMC infrastructure and VMware vRealize Suite and the automation capabilities there. Now, the certification isn't just validating the knowledge. It's actually also the real world of experience of managing that environment. And it extends to public clouds. As part of that certification, it's validating that individuals have the experience and have actually working environments where they're actually integrating into those different public cloud providers. So that could be, of course, both Dell EMC and VMware cloud partner providers, but also into other popular cloud providers like Virtustream, Microsoft Azure, AWS, and so on. So we're not certifying them on those third-party cloud providers, but our certification validates an individual's experience and their proficiency working with those environments. It's part of a larger solution. So, Mike, your background's from the EMC side. Maybe speak to a little bit. The portfolio you mentioned, Virtustream. VMware, of course, has very rigorous types of certifications there. How do those play across the various solutions? Yeah, there's a lot of great synergies there. So as I mentioned, our certification validate into some of those areas, but an additional opportunity for the individuals who are looking to get certified, for example, it's called co-badging. So for individuals who have a specific Dell EMC certification, like that multi-cloud expert, as well as, in this case, a VMware certification, their VCP, not only do they get to proudly wear those two badges, but there's a third co-badge which really distinguishes that person as having a broader set of experience across that even bigger solution. Last thing I want to touch on, Mike, is plan it for the future, to talk a little bit about the rollout of some of these new certifications and how does this prep customers not just for the needs of today, but where they need to go in their career for the next five years? Yeah, sure. So what we're validating in these certifications is absolutely relevant to a lot of our customers that we see that are transforming at a rapid pace. But what I like to say is that transformations of journey, the masses of organizations are in motion, they're obviously at all different stages, but really what we're focused on validating is the future skills needed. And we see a big, a lot of pent-up demand actually for that today. So what we, for example, our master level certification to your question about kind of what's next, where it's going, that is an extremely rigorous certification, not one that is achieved via an online proctored exam, it's actually conducted by a board review. So candidates submit applications, and depending upon the application, it's accepted or not, those that are accepted actually will have the opportunity to present in front of a board. And it's something that we'll run quarterly. Our first one at Dell Technologies World, just coming up in a couple months, and we'll run them quarterly after that. And for those who pass the board review and have the extensive amount of experience and meet the requirements, achieve that master level enterprise architect certification in that case. Okay, great. Well, we're looking forward to being, we're going to have the cube at Dell Technologies World. It's actually the first event we ever did was EMC World back in 2010. So it'll be, I can't believe our ninth year doing the cube there, lots of coverage. Mike, I just want to give you the final word, you know, we were talking offline a bit. We've got friends in the industry, lots of things have changed. Personal level, what do you give people that have been in tech for a while? You know, what advice do you give them? I'd say like any role, even outside of tech, but I think mostly in tech is keeping up with the pace of things. It's, that right there is a full-time job, as you know, and as our customers know. And you know, coming from the learning industry and education services, it's a passion of mine and something I get really, really excited about. All right, Mike and Pigeon, thank you so much for joining us. Congratulations on the update. We look forward to hearing the results from the board of views at Dell Technologies World and beyond. And be sure to check out thecube.net for coverage of Dell Technologies World, lots of other shows 2018 and beyond. I'm Stu Minin, thank you so much for watching theCUBE.


You mentioned Costco, any more thoughts on those comparable store sales? Well, I think that people, when you report a good number, as Home Depot did, all people do is say it postpones the inevitable, which is Amazon. I continue to believe that there are three bargains in this country. They are Costco with its membership. They are Netflix with its membership.  And that all three could have their prices raised, and that's where the gross margins are. So while Costco is regarded as a retailer, I think it's more of a club, the thing that is hurting Costco is it sells at 25 times earnings. And you would like to see that multiple come down before you take a stab, because that's a very rich multiple for any retailer.


Can you tell me your funniest and most memorable moment for filming? Honestly, the whole thing was memorable. I know it sounds corny, but it's true. It was fun. Everything that I got to be a part of, whether it be rehearsals or actually shooting, it was just, it was a blast. And I think everybody was there, felt the same way. Yeah, I was like going to theater camp. Yeah. Yeah, I was like going back to something extraordinarily fun.  Get up and learn. Try something new and sing and you end up in a recording studio. Like, how often do you get behind a mic and record? Like, I don't, it's not my everyday thing. So it was really fun. Took me out of my element and put me back into this world that I really missed. Were there any blooper moments where I assume there must have been so many times when you guys tripped up or choreography went wrong? No, none. Seamless. It's perfect. What you saw, we did it once. Our number is pretty much impossible to do all the way through because it's just there's too many setups and rigs and harnesses. To get into this tight spiral span, we had to like run away from each other and like do this kick turn and then get lifted up. They would like pull us up and we would come off the ground and that would sort of like make us swing together even faster. And if we weren't in the exactly the right place, like we would meet in the middle and for this tight spiral. It was just a head on collision. So that would happen. Just bam. Quite a bit. She was upside down. She started to swing upside down on your knees, right? Yeah. And would come all the way from across the room and just literally her head would just barely miss this handrail and she would come up to the eye level with me. And I was like, what the heck? This is crazy. They're like, I didn't even, I didn't have to act at all. Mind you, we have to be cute. I have to be cute. I have to be like a beautiful. Yeah, she would pull up and it would be like a perfect. Elegant face. It's not Zoolander, it's a dead face. It's like the whole time I'm like, and then as soon as I'm back down. That was it. You just got a little. I was going to be like. Ah. I usually don't like that shot. I kept going, Michael, because I have this huge vein just right down my forehead because I've been upside down for like three minutes. That's the one thing you notice. That was pretty impressive. My face is red.  It was a good icebreaker. Yeah, first day we were in there. So we, that kind of, that uncomfortableness of like slamming into each other or whatever, it's gone. It became a partnership very quickly. Yeah, it was very much, you know, we were always checking in with each other first and foremost. And after we knew we were okay, then we would take notes and everything, but first we were like, well, we did. Yeah, we did. I mean, there's very little that is not us. It must have been months. Quite literally, it was a month of rehearsals and everything like that, it was a lot. That was incredible, if we had a month to prepare for every movie and get ready for a film, everything would be wonderful. I was so excited to do dance rehearsals and then they'd be like, oh no, you're in the air.  You don't need to memorize that. She was always spinning above everybody. I was always doing something in the air, so. Which is dope. Which is pretty cool. But I wish I could have been on the ground every now and then.


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Hello and welcome to lecture number 20 of this lecture series on turbo machinery aerodynamics. We have we have probably half way through this course and I guess you must have had some good idea about what in what is involved in turbo machinery analysis and what is involved in design of different types of turbo machines especially the compressors. Now, starting the last lecture onwards we are now looking at the axial turbines and of course, subsequently we will also be talking about the radial turbines and so on. So, I think in the last class you must have had got some introduction to what axial turbines are and what constitutes axial turbines and so on. So, let us take that discussion little bit further in today's class where we will we will be talking about two dimensional analysis of axial compressors well axial turbines. In a very similar fashion to what we had discussed for axial compressors if you remember during one of the initial lectures probably the lecture second lecture or the third lecture. We had been talking about axial compressors and how one can analyze axial compressors in a two dimensional sense. So, we will we will carry out a similar analysis and discussion in today's class about how the same thing can be carried out for turbines axial turbines in particular. In today's class we basically been going to talk about the following topics we will initially discuss have some introduction to axial turbines turbines in general. We will talk about impulse and reaction turbine stages which are the two basic types of axial turbines. We will then talk about the work and stage dynamics how you can calculate work done by a turbine and how is it different for impulse and reaction turbines. We will then spend some time on discussion about turbine blade cascade. We will assume that the nomenclature we had used in the case of compressors will still be valid, but of course, we will just highlight some simple differences between a compressor cascade and a turbine cascade. The nomenclature remains the same in the sense that what we had called as camber or stagger or incidence all that remains the same for a turbine. So, I will probably spend lesser time discussing about those and take up some more topics on cascade analysis which we had not really covered in detail in compressors. Now, when we talk about turbines you must have had some discussion of some introduction to the different types of turbines as we know there are different types of compressors like axial and centrifugal. Similarly, we have different types of turbines as well. Now, in a turbine just like in a compressor we have different components. In a compressor we know that we have a rotor followed by a stator. In the case of turbines we have a nozzle or a stator which precedes a rotor. So, a nozzle or a stator guides and accelerates the flow into a rotor and of course, the work extraction takes place in the rotor and which is unlike in a compressor where it is the rotor which comes first and drives the flow and then that goes into a stator which again turns it back to the axial direction and so on. Diffusion takes place in both the rotor and the stator. In a turbine as well you could have differential amounts of acceleration or pressure drop taking place in the rotor and the stator and there are certain types of turbines where the entire pressure drop takes place only in the stator. This the rotor does not contribute to any pressure drop it simply deflects the flow. These are called impulse turbines we will discuss that in little more detail in some of these later slides. So, basically the flow in a turbine is accelerated in nozzle or a stator and it then passes through a rotor. In a rotor the working fluid basically imparts momentum to the rotor and basically that converts the kinetic energy to power output. Now, depending upon the power requirement this process obviously is repeated in multiple stages. You would have number of stages which will generate the required work output which is also similar to what you have in a compressor where you might have multiple stages which basically are meant to give you the required pressure rise in a typical axial compressor. Now we have seen this aspect in compressors as well that due to the motion of the rotor blades you have basically two distinct components or types of velocities. One is the absolute component or type of velocity and the other is the relative component or relative velocity. This was also discussed in detail in compressors and so you would in a turbine analysis that we will do in by analyzing the velocity triangle. You will see that there are these two distinct components which will become obvious when we take up velocity triangles and this very similar to what you had discussed in compressor. So, if you have understood velocity triangle construction for an axial compressor it is pretty much the same in the case of a turbine as well. So, that is probably the reason why it will make it simpler for you to understand the construction of a velocity triangle. Now the fundamental difference between a compressor and a turbine is the fact that a compressor is required to generate a certain pressure rise. There is a work input into the compressor which is what is used in increasing the pressure across the compressor. Compressor operates in a adverse pressure gradient mode that is the flow always sees an increasing pressure downstream. In the case of a turbine it is not that case it is the other way around that the flow always sees a favorable pressure gradient because there is a pressure drop taking place in a turbine which leads to which is how the turbine extracts work from the flow. That is it converts part of the kinetic energy which the flow has into work output and therefore, in a turbine the flow always sees a favorable pressure gradient and that is one fundamental difference between a turbine and a compressor. Now because you have a favorable pressure gradient the problems that we have seen in the case of compressor like flow separation and blade stall and surge and all that does not really affect a turbine because a turbine the flow is always in an accelerating mode and so the problem of flow separation does not really limit the performance of a turbine. So, it is possible that we can extract lot more work per stage in a turbine as compared to that of a compressor. And therefore, you would if you have noticed a schematic of a typical modern day jet engine you will find that there are numerous stages of compressors may be 15 or 20 which are actually driven by may be 2 or 3 stages of turbine. So, each stage of a turbine can actually give you much greater pressure drop than what we can achieve or the kind of pressure rise we can achieve in one stage of a compressor which is why a single stage of a turbine can drive multiple stages of compressors. So, that is a very important aspect that you need to understand because the fundamental reason for this being the fact that turbines operate in a favorable pressure gradient compressors operate in an adverse pressure gradient. So, there are limitations in a compressor which will prevent us from having very high values of pressure rise per stage that is not a limitation in a turbine and that is why you have much greater pressure drop taking place in a turbine as compared to that of the pressure rise that you get from one stage of a compressor. So, turbines like compressors can be of different types compressors we have seen can be either axial or centrifugal in the case of turbines you can in fact in the some literature which also says they could also have mixed type of compressors axial and centrifugal mixed similar thing is also there in the case of turbine you could have an axial turbine or a radial turbine or a mixture or combination of the two called mixed flow turbines. Axial turbines obviously, can handle large mass flows and obviously, are more efficient as very similar analogy we can take from compressors which have larger mass flow and are obviously, more efficient and axial turbine main advantage is that it has the same frontal area of that of a compressor and also it is possible that we can use an axial turbine with that of a centrifugal compressor. So, that is also an advantage and what is also seen is that efficiency of turbines are usually higher than that of compressors. The basic reason again is related to the comment I made earlier that turbines operate in a favorable pressure gradient and so the problems that flows sees in an adverse pressure gradient is not seen there are no problems of flow separation except in some rare cases and this also means that theoretically turbines are easier to design well easier is in court and uncourt well in the sense that you know compressors require little more care in terms of aerodynamic design. But of course, turbines have a different problem because of high temperatures and so turbine blade cooling and associated problems that is an entirely different problem all together. So, aerodynamically if you have to design a compressor and a turbine, turbines would be a tad easier to design than compressors just because of the fact that you do not have to really worry about the chances of flow separation across the turbine because it is always an accelerating flow. In the case of compressors that is not the case and there is always a risk that a compressor might enter into stall. So, let us now take a look at now that I have spoken a lot about types of turbines and their functions and so on. Let us take a look at a typical axial turbine stage. So, what is shown here is a simple schematic of an axial turbine stage. So, an axial turbine stage consists of as I mentioned a nozzle or a stator followed by a rotor. So, this is just representing a nozzle through which hot gases from the combustion chamber are expanded and then that passes through a rotor which is what gives us the power output. Rotor is mounted on what is known as a disk and of course, a flow from the rotor is exhausted into either a next stage or through the component downstream which could be a nozzle in the case of an aircraft engine. So, usually we would be denoting the stator inlet as station 1, stator exit as station 2 and rotor exit as station 3. In some of the earlier generation turbines the disk was a separate entity, rotor was mounted on slots which were provided on the disk and so those separation separate mechanism for mounting rotor blades on the disk. Some of the modern days so it was very soon realized that having a separate disk and different blades in obviously, will increase the number of parts. So, the part count will increase tremendously. So, but with modern day manufacturing capabilities in terms of 5 axis and 7 axis numerical machines called CNC machines, computer guided machines it is possible for us to make them out of a single piece. And this is done in smaller sized engines now and some of the companies have their own names for that for example, G calls such a disk which is combination of disk and the blade as blisk. Blisk means blade and disk together machined out of a single piece of metal and similarly, their competitors also have their own terminologies like patent Whitney calls it integrated blade rotor or IBR. There is no distinct root fixture for a blade because the blade and the disk are a single component. The main advantage being that you have reduced significantly the number of parts whereas, you would have let us say a typical turbine blade may have something like 70 to 80 blades or even more of course mounted on a disk. So, that is like 80 to 90 parts for one stage of a rotor. Now, if you have a blisk you have just one component because all the blades have been mounted on one disk. That is a tremendous advantage for in terms of maintenance aspect, but at the same time the primary disadvantage is the fact that if there is one blade which gets damaged in the earlier scenario you just have to replace the blade. Here it becomes impossible to replace the blade and so then of course, you will have to do a rebalancing of the disk and if the damage is severe then the whole disk has to be replaced. Of course, there are pros and cons of having an integrated blade rotor concept and of course, there are lot of disadvantages and advantages, but that for at least smaller engines economically that is in the long run that seems to be an advantage that you have a combination of the blade and the disk. So, having understood some of the fundamentals of turbines, let us move on to the more important aspect of analysis, the two dimensional analysis that is to do with velocity triangles. I think we spent quite some time discussing velocity triangles for compressors. So, I will assume that you have understood the fundamentals of velocity triangles and try to kind of move on to constructing the velocity triangles just like that unlike in compressors where I had done it step by step. The process is exactly the same as what you had done for a compressor, but of course, it being a turbine there are certain differences which you need to understand. Now, velocity triangle analysis is an elementary analysis and this is elementary to axial turbines as well just like in the case of compressors. Now, the usual procedure for analysis is to carry out this analysis at the mean blade height and we will have a blade speed at that height assuming to be U capital U absolute component of velocity we will denote by C and relative component we will denote by V and the axial velocity the absolute component of that is obviously, denoted by C subscript A just like in compressors tangential components will be denoted by a subscript W. So, C W is absolute component of tangential velocity V W is the relative component in the tangential direction and regarding angles alpha will denote the angle between the absolute velocity and the axial direction and beta denotes the corresponding angle for relative velocity. So, these are the terminologies nomenclature that we have used even in a compressor we will follow exactly the same nomenclature in the case of turbine as well. So, let us move directly to a velocity triangle of a typical turbine stage. So, turbine stage as we have already seen consist of a rotor a well a stator or a nozzle it is usually referred to as a nozzle in the case of turbine because of flow is accelerated in a stator of a turbine and that is why it is called a nozzle and then you have a rotor which follows a stator or a nozzle. Now, inlet to stator is denoted as station 1 exit is denoted as station 2 exit of the rotor is station 3. So, let us say there is an inlet velocity which is given by C 1 which is absolute velocity entering at an angle alpha 1 it exits the stator or nozzle with a highly accelerated flow which is C 2 you can see that C 2 is much higher than C 1 and that is exactly the reason why this is called a nozzle. Now, at the rotor entry we also have a blade speed u please note that the direction of this vector u is from the pressure surface to the suction surface unlike in compressor where it was the other way around. Here the flow drives the blades and that is why you have the blade speed which is in this direction. This is the absolute velocity entering the rotor and relative velocity will be the vector sum of these two or vector difference between these two and that is given by V 2 alpha 2 is the angle which C 2 makes with the axial direction beta 2 is the angle which V 2 makes with the axial direction and just like we have seen in compressors V 2 enters the rotor at an angle which is tangential to the camber at the leading edge. This is to ensure that the flow this is obviously when the incidence is close to 0 to ensure that the flow does not separate. At the rotor exit we have V 3, V 3 is less than V 2 as you can see and of course that also depends upon the type of the turbine whether it is impulse or reaction and you also have C 3 here and this is the blade speed u beta 3 is the angle which V 3 makes with the axial direction alpha 3 is the angle which the absolute velocity C 3 makes with the axial direction. So, if you now come go back to the earlier slides of lecture 2 or 3 where we had discussed about velocity triangles for an axial compressor you can quite easily see the similarities as well as the differences. So, I would strongly urge you to compare both these velocity triangles by keeping them side by side. So, you can understand the differences between a compressor and a turbine at the same time you can also try to figure out some similarities between these two components and so it is very necessary that you understand clearly both the differences as well as the similarities from a very fundamental aspect that is the velocity triangle point of view. So, this is a standard velocity triangle for a typical turbine stage I have not really mentioned here what kind of a turbine it is whether it is impulse or reaction we will come to that classification very soon and you will see that there are different ways in which you can express the velocity triangle for both of these types of turbines. So, let us now try to take a look at the different types of turbines I mentioned in the beginning that there are two different configurations of axial turbines that are possible the impulse and the reaction turbine. In an impulse turbine the entire pressure drop takes place in the nozzle and the rotor blades would simply deflect the flow and would have a symmetrical shape. So, there is no acceleration or pressure drop taking place in the rotor in an impulse turbine. So, the rotor blades would simply deflect the flow and guided to the next nozzle if there is one present. In a reaction turbine on the other hand the pressure drop is shared by the rotor as well as the stator and the amount of pressure drop that is shared is defined by the degree of reaction which we will discuss in detail in the next lecture. Now, which means that the degree of reaction of an impulse turbine would be 0 because the entire pressure drop has already taken place in the stator the rotor does not contribute to any pressure drop and. So, the degree of reaction for an impulse turbine should be 0. So, these are two different configurations of axial turbines which are possible and what we will do is that we will take a look at their velocity triangles also, but before that we need to also understand the basic mechanism by which work is done by a turbine. Now, if you were to apply angular momentum equation for an axial turbine what you will notice is that the power generated by a turbine is a function of well three parameters one is of course, a mass flow rate. The other parameters are the blade speed and the tangential component of velocity the absolute velocity. So, if you apply angular momentum at the inlet and exit of the rotor then the power generated by the turbine is equal to mass flow rate multiplied by u 2 into C w 2 which is the product of the blade speed and the tangential velocity absolute at the inlet of the rotor minus u 3 times C w 3 which is again blade speed at rotor exit and multiplied by the tangential component of the absolute velocity at the rotor exit. Now, we would normally assume that the blade speed is does not change from at a given radial plane and therefore, u 2 can be assumed to be equal to u 3 and therefore, the work done per unit mass would now be equal to blade speed that is u multiplied by C w 2 minus C w 3 or which is also equal to the from the thermodynamics point of view. There is a stagnation pressure a stagnation temperature drop taking place in a turbine because the turbine expands the flow and work is extracted from the turbine and therefore, there has to be a stagnation temperature drop taking place a turbine. Therefore, the enthalpy difference between the inlet and exit of the turbine would basically be equal to the work done by or work developed by this particular turbine. So, work done per unit mass is also equal to C p times T 0 1 minus T 0 3 where this is basically the enthalpy difference C p T 0 1 is enthalpy at inlet of the turbine C p T 0 3 is the enthalpy at the exit of the turbine. Let us now denote delta T 0 which basically refers to the stagnation temperature the net change in stagnation temperature in the turbine delta T 0 is equal to T 0 1 minus T 0 3 which is also equal to T 0 2 minus T 0 3 because 1 to 2 is the stator and there cannot be any change in stagnation temperature in the stator. Therefore, T 0 1 minus T 0 3 is equal to T 0 2 minus T 0 3. So, we now define what is known as the stage work ratio which is basically delta T naught by T 0 1 and that is equal to u times C w 2 minus C w 3 divided by C p times T 0 1. So, this basically follows from these two equations here which correspond to the work done per unit mass 1 is in terms of the velocities and the other is in terms of stagnation temperatures. So, a similar analysis was also carried out when we were discussing about axial compressors and where also we had kind of equated the work that the flow does on well work done by the compressor on the flow as compared to the stagnation temperature rise taking place in a compressor as a result of the work done on the flow. So, there also we had defined the pressure rise or pressure ratio per stage in terms of the temperature rise across that particular stage and the velocity components which come from the velocity triangles. Now, what you can see here is that the turbine work per stage would basically be limited by two parameters. One is the pressure ratio that is available for expansion and of course, the other aspect is the amount of blade stress and turning that is physically be possible for one to achieve in the case of a particular turbine. So, there are two parameters one being the available pressure ratio and the other is the allowable blade stress and turning that one can achieve in a particular turbine configuration. So, in unlike in a compressor where we also had the issue of boundary layer behavior because the flow was always operating in an adverse pressure gradient mode in compressors in a turbine the pressure gradient is favorable. So, boundary layer behavior is generally something that can be controlled and there are normally not much issues related to boundary layer boundary layer separation or growth of boundary layer and so on. Of course, there are certain operating conditions and which under which certain the stages of turbines may undergo local flow separation, but that is only for short durations. In general in a favorable pressure gradient boundary layers generally tend to be well behaved. Now the turbine work ratio that we had seen in the previous slide is also often defined in as a ratio between the work done per unit mass divided by the square of the blade speed. Therefore, W t by u square which is also equal to the enthalpy rise or rather enthalpy drop in the case of turbine divided by u square which is basically equal to delta C w divided by u or net change in the tangential velocity absolute divided by the blade speed. Now this is an important parameter because based on this we can understand the differences between an impulse turbine and a reaction turbine which is what we are going to do next. To take a look at what are the fundamental differences besides of course, the fact that in an impulse turbine flow is the entire pressure drop takes place only in the nozzle and in reaction turbine that is shared between the nozzle and the rotor. Let us take up an impulse turbine first and we will take a look at the velocity triangles for an impulse turbine and then try to find out the work ratio per stage of an impulse turbine and relate it to some parameters which we can get from the velocity triangles. So, here we have a typical impulse turbine stage a set of a row of nozzle blades followed by a row of rotor blades and so flow is accelerated in the nozzle and so the velocity that reaches the rotor the absolute component is C 2 and at an angle of alpha 2 with the axial direction and as a result of the blade speed u the relative velocity which enters the rotor is v 2 which is at an angle of beta 2 with the axial direction and in an impulse turbine I mentioned that the rotor simply deflects the flow and there is no pressure drop taking place in the rotor and therefore, at the exit of the rotor we have v 3 which is at an angle of beta 3 and by virtue of the symmetry of the blades we will have beta 2 is equal to minus beta 3 and velocity in magnitude v 2 would be equal to v 3. So, which we can also see from the velocity triangle shown here C 2 is the absolute velocity entering the rotor v 2 is the relative velocity and the corresponding angles here alpha 2 and beta 2. Now, in the rotor we have v 3 which is equal to v 2 in magnitude, but at an angle which is different from the inlet that is beta 3 will be negative of beta 2 in the other direction absolute velocity leaving the blade is C 3. Now, if you look at the other components of velocities like this is the axial component of the absolute velocity C A and the corresponding tangential components of the relative velocity which are obviously equal and opposite direction like v w 2 and v w 3 you can see that these are equal in magnitude, but of course, the directions are opposite because v 2 and v 3 are in opposite directions and C w 2 is the absolute component of the well tangential component of the absolute velocity at inlet C w 3 that at the exit of the rotor. So, this is a typical velocity triangle of an impulse turbine stage and if you take a closer look at the velocity triangles I had mentioned that the angles beta 3 and beta 2 are equal in magnitude, but they are different by their orientation. So, beta 3 is equal to minus beta 2 which means that we have v w 3 is equal to minus v w 2 and the difference in the tangential component of the absolute velocity C w 2 minus C w 3 will be equal to twice of v w 2. So, let us take a look at the velocity triangle again C w 2 is this minus C w 3 is equal to the sum of v w 2 and v w 3 and since they are equal we have that is equal to twice of v w 2 which is also equal to 2 into C w 2 minus u or this is equal to 2 u into C a by u tan alpha 2 minus 1. So, that is again coming from the velocity triangles you can see that C a tan alpha 2 is this component minus u is equal to twice of this. So, the difference between the tangential component of the absolute velocity C w 2 and C w 3 that is delta C w for an impulse turbine will be equal to 2 u into C a by u tan alpha 2 minus 1. Therefore, the work ratio that we have defined earlier for an impulse turbine that is delta h naught by u square is equal to 2 u into C a by u tan alpha 2 minus 1. We will now take a look at what happens in the case of a reaction turbine and calculate the work ratio as applicable for a reaction turbine and see the is there a difference fundamentally in the work ratio of an impulse turbine and a reaction turbine. Now, let us take a look at a typical 50 percent reaction turbine just for simplicity the reason why we took up a 50 percent reaction turbine is because in a 50 percent reaction turbine the pressure drop is shared equally between the nozzle and the rotor. And therefore, the velocity triangles as you can see are mirror images of one another the velocity triangle at the inlet of the rotor is this where C this is C 2 the absolute velocity coming in from the rotor from the nozzle v 2 is the relative velocity and this is the blade speed and since they are mirror images at the exit of the rotor you have v 3 and C 3. And therefore, you can clearly see that C 2 will be equal to v 3 and v 2 will be equal to C 3 corresponding the angles alpha 2 will be equal to beta 3 and beta 2 will be equal to alpha 3. So, this is true only for a 50 percent reaction turbine for any other reaction stages of course, the velocity triangles need not necessarily be symmetrical and this is also assuming that the axial velocity is does not change across the rotor and the nozzle. Now, for this kind of a reaction turbine which is having a degree of reaction of 0.5 since the velocity triangles are mirror images are symmetrical if you assume constant axial velocity we have C w 3 is equal to minus C a tan alpha 2 minus u. And therefore, the turbine work ratio would basically be equal to twice into twice of C a by u tan alpha 2 minus 1. This we can compare with that of the impulse turbine where it was 2 u multiplied by C a by u tan alpha 2 minus 1. So, you can immediately see that there is fundamental difference between the work ratio as compared to a turbine which is impulse or in this case of course, example was for a 50 percent reaction turbine. So, there is a fundamental difference between the work ratio as applicable for an impulse turbine as compared to that of a 50 percent reaction turbine and in general for any reaction turbine as well. Now, this was as far as the different types of turbine configurations were concerned and how one can analyze these turbine configurations and what are the fundamental differences between let us say an impulse turbine and a reaction turbine and how one can from the velocity triangle estimate the work ratio that of the work done by these kind of turbine stages. So, what I was suggesting right at the beginning was that you can clearly see differences between the compressors and turbines by looking at the velocity triangle for these two different cases and comparing them to understand the fundamental working of compressors and turbines and what makes them two different components. What we can take up next for discussion is something we have discussed in detail for compressors as well that is to do with a cascade and as you have already seen a cascade is a simplified version of rotating machine and you could have different versions of cascade you could have a linear cascade or an annular cascade and basically a cascade would have a set of blades which are arranged set of similar blades which are all arranged in a certain fashion at a certain angle which we have referred to as the stagger angle and cascade analysis forms a very fundamental analysis of design of turbo machines whether it is compressors or turbines. So, cascade basically consists of an array of stationary blades and constructed basically for measurement of performance parameters and what is usually done is that we would like to eliminate any three dimensional effects which are likely to come up in a cascade and one of the sources of three dimensionality is the presence of boundary layer. So, one would like to remove boundary layer from the end walls of a cascade and so that is a standard practice that one would have porous end walls through which boundary layer flow it can be removed to ensure two dimensionality of the flow entering into a cascade. Now, it is also a standard assumption that radial variations in velocity field can be kind of eliminated or ignored and cascade analysis is primarily meant to give us some idea about the amount of blade loading that a particular configuration can give us as well as the losses in total pressure that one can measure from a cascade analysis. So, and in turbine cascades testing also involves wind tunnels which are very similar to what we had discussed for compressors. I had shown you cascade wind tunnels when we were discussing about cascades in the context of compressors in turbine cascades are also tested in similar wind tunnels and just that in a case of turbine since they are operating in an accelerating flow there is a requirement of a certain pressure drop across a turbine. So, therefore, the wind tunnel is required to generate sufficient pressure which can be expanded through a turbine cascade. Now, turbine blades as you are probably aware would are likely to have much higher camber than compressor cascades or compressor blades and turbine cascades are set at a negative stagger like in compressor blades something I will explain when we take up a cascade schematic in detail. Now, cascade analysis will basically give us as I mentioned two parameters besides a set of other parameters like boundary layer thickness and losses etcetera. The most fundamental parameter we would like to look at from the cascade analysis is this surface static pressure distribution or C P distribution which is related to the loading of the blade and the second aspect to this is a total pressure loss across the cascade which is yet another parameter that one would like to infer from the cascade analysis. Now, let us take a look at a typical cascade turbine cascade nomenclature I think I mentioned in the beginning that all the terms that we have used for compressors will it is the same nomenclature that we apply for a turbine as well just that the way the blades are set for the blade geometry they are quite different between compressors and turbines. So, if you look at a typical compressor cascade these are the blades you can immediately see that these blades have much higher turning or camber than compressor blades. So, it is a set of these blades which are arranged either linearly or in an another fashion which constitute a cascade. So, these blades are set apart by a certain distance which is as you can see denoted by pitch or spacing and these blades are set at a certain angle which is called the blade setting or the stagger angle. So, you can see this lambda which you see here refers to the blade setting or stagger angle the blades have a certain camber which is basically the angle subtended between the tangent to the camber line at the leading edge and that at the tail trailing edge. So, the difference between that gives us the blade camber. Now, the flow enters the cascade at a certain angle you can see that inlet blade angle is given here as beta 1 and the blade outlet angle is beta 2. Now, so if there is a difference between the blade angle and the flow angle at the inlet that is basically the incidence which is denoted by I here. So, this is the incidence angle similarly a difference between the blade outlet angle and the out flow angle is the deviation which is denoted by delta. So, at the exit you may have a flow deviation at the inlet one may have an incidence and if you draw a normal or at normal to the tangent at the trailing edge and take it to the next adjacent blade the suction surface of the adjacent blade. So, this distance that you see here is basically referred to as the throat or opening at the turbine exit and that is here denoted by a symbol o. The blade chord as we already know is denoted by c and then the blades also would have a certain finite thickness at the trailing edge. So, that is denoted here by the trailing edge thickness. So, the blades practically will have a certain amount of finite thickness and that is what is denoted here as the thickness at the trailing edge. So, these are the fundamental nomenclatures nomenclature that is used in turbine very similar aspect was also used in compressor where we had defined all these different parameters like incidence and deflection deviation and blade angle the camber pitch stagger all of them were defined. The difference is of course, the blade the way the blades are set this is set at a negative stagger as you can see the compressor cascade if you go back you will see that the way the blades are set is opposite to what you see in the case of a turbine. That is basically to ensure that the flow passage gives you the required amount of flow turning and also the flow acceleration in the case of turbine cascades and in compressor cascade the setting is to ensure that you get a deceleration in a compressor. So, having understood the fundamental nomenclature of a turbine cascade we would now take a closer look at the different aspects of flow through a cascade and I would be deriving well not really a detail derivation, but I would just give you some idea about how one can calculate the lift developed by a certain cascade turbine cascade in two different cases. One is if we do not assume any losses or if it is an inviscid analysis and followed by a viscous analysis one of course, would also get a drag in the case of a viscous analysis how one can calculate the lift and of course, that is basically related to the loading of the blades eventually. So, the basic idea of cascade analysis is that just like in the case of an airfoil because cascade is in some sense an airfoil analysis we can determine the lift and drag forces acting on the blades. And this analysis as I mentioned can be carried out using both these assumptions a potential flow or inviscid analysis or by considering viscous effects in a rather simplistic manner. So, we will assume that the mean velocity which we are going to denote as V subscript m makes an angle of alpha subscript m with the axial direction. What we will do is to determine the circulation developed on the blades and subsequently the lift force in the inviscid analysis. Obviously, there is no drag and there is only a lift force which is the lift is the only force acting on the blade in the case of an inviscid analysis when you take up a viscous analysis there are two components of the force and the resultant force they will lift and the drag. So, this is the geometry we are considering for an inviscid flow through a turbine cascade. If you take a look at two different stream lines let us say this is one streamline another streamline which is bounding one particular blade that is shown here. These are the two different stream lines. What we are going to do is to find the circulation produced over this particular airfoil which is currently an airfoil here and then relate that to the lift developed on this particular blade. So, the inlet flow entering the cascade is V 1 and the flow exiting the blade is V 2 and of course, we will assume a mean velocity of V m which makes an angle alpha m with the axial direction. So, if this is the case and this is how you can take a look at the circulation axis. So, this is the axis along which we are calculating the circulation and therefore, this is the lift acting on this particular blade. Since it is a turbine blade you know that this is basically the direction in which the lift is going to act. So, the mean velocity that is shown here by a vector V m acts in this direction this is the inflow velocity V 1 and this is the exit velocity V 2. So, circulation that is denoted by capital lambda here is equal to s multiplied by the difference in the tangential velocities V w 2 minus V w 1 and lift is related to the circulation which is the product of density times the mean velocity and the circulation. Therefore, lift acting when there are no other effects considered like viscous effects then the lift acting here would be simply the product of rho times V m into the circulation which is s into V w 2 minus V w 1. So, this is expressed in a non dimensional form which we refer to as the lift coefficient. So, C l here is lift divided by half rho V m square into C and this is equal to rho into V m into s V w 2 minus V w 1 by half rho V m square into C. So, this can be related to the angles the across the cascade and so, we can simplify this lift coefficient as 2 into s by C into tan alpha 2 minus tan alpha 1 multiplied by cos alpha alpha m. So, this is the this is basically the lift coefficient on a turbine blade assuming that the flow is in this it. Now, what happens if there are viscous effects the primary effect of viscous flow on the flow through a turbine cascade is the fact that viscous effects will manifest themselves in the form of pressure losses total pressure losses. And therefore, the wake from the blade trailing edge will lead to a non uniform velocity leaving the blades in the previous analysis we were assuming uniform velocity entering the blades and uniform velocity leaving the blades because it is a potential flow. So, here in the case of viscous analysis in addition to lift one would also have a drag which will also contribute to lift in some way of the other. So, the effective force acting on the blade will be a resultant of both the lift as well as the drag acting on the blade. So, we now define what is known as a total pressure loss coefficient we have defined a similar parameter for compressors as well. So, this is denoted by omega bar because there is a total pressure loss taking place across the blades as a result of the viscous effects. So, omega bar is equal to p 0 1 minus p 0 2 divided by half rho v 2 square. So, this is the loss in total pressure across the turbine cascade. So, the schematic I had shown earlier now gets modified because you have a set of uniform stream lines entering the turbine cascade, but as they leave the cascade you can see that they have become non uniform basically at the trailing edge where there is a wake. So, this what is shown here schematically is the these are the different wakes of all these blades that are present here. So, there is a difference in the forces acting on the blade as a result of this non uniformity in the velocity at the at the exit of the turbine cascade. So, in this case we can calculate drag as equal to the losses we can relate the drag to the losses total pressure losses omega bar into S into cos alpha m. And therefore, the effective lift will now be equal to the sum of the lift as well as the component of drag in that effective direction that is omega bar into S into cos alpha m and lift we know is the product of density and the mean velocity and the circulation.  Therefore, the lift coefficient in this case will get modified as twice into S by C tan alpha 2 minus tan alpha 1 cos alpha m plus the drag component C d times tan alpha m. So, this is the manner image we can calculate lift coefficient for both these cases one is for the case without viscous effects and the second is if we consider viscous effects. So, the basic idea of calculating these coefficients was to calculate also calculate the blade efficiency. So, based on the calculation of the lift and drag coefficients we can now calculate the blade efficiency which is basically the ratio of ideal static pressure drop to obtain a certain degree of kinetic energy change to the actual static pressure drop which will produce the same change in kinetic energy. Therefore, the blade efficiency is of course, skip the derivation of the blade efficiency, but it can be related to the lift and drag coefficients like blade efficiency is 1 minus C d by C l tan alpha m divided by 1 plus C d by C l cot alpha m. And if you were to neglect the drag term in the lift definition because C d the drag term is usually much smaller in comparison to the lift the blade efficiency is simply 1 by 1 plus 2 into C d divided by C l sin into twice alpha m. So, this the basic idea of calculating the lift and drag coefficients was also to calculate the blade efficiency which is basically a function of C d C l and the mean angle alpha m. So, let me now quickly recap our discussion in today's class. We had taken up three distinct topics for discussion one was the different types of turbine configuration axial turbine configurations the impulse and the reaction turbine stages. And we have done we had a look at the velocity triangles and how you can calculate the work ratio for impulse and reaction turbine stages. We also carried out the work and stage dynamics we have looked at these different components or configurations of axial turbines and how we can go about determining the work ratio for these two configurations of axial turbine. And then we had some discussion on turbine cascades and calculation of lift and drag for a typical turbine configuration and how we can use that information to calculate the blade efficiency from simple turbine cascade testing that is a simple cascade testing can actually give us some idea about the blade efficiency that this kind of a blade configuration can give us. So, that brings us to the end of this lecture we will continue discussion on axial turbines in the next lecture as well where we will primarily be talking about the performance parameters degree of reaction losses as well as efficiency of axial turbines. And where we will also take up detail discussion on what are the different losses in a two dimensional sense and how we can define efficiency and you will see that there are different ways of defining efficiency for a turbine. So, we will take up some of these topics for discussion in the next class.


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I forgot about Edwin going with the white socks. White socks and the reds when they went for it. And then there are- Edwin's so good. There are some other guys that can move the needle a little bit. Eric Tames is with the Nationals now. Justin Smokes and Milo Waukay. So there's some other dudes out there, but those are the big names. Second base. Been there, not in a while. How about Mike Moustakis? The Moose Man is gonna be playing second base this year for your Cincinnati Reds. The Reds were another winner of this year's off season, more or less. Howie Kendrick still listed at second base. The World Series hero, he returns to the Nats. Caesar Hernandez for the Indians. Starlin' Castro's going to Washington. And then, yeah, a lot of chip away guys. So guards in Milwaukee, but Moustakis playing second base. That's a really fun storyline. Yep. Got to love it. Friend of the pod? Friend of the pod. Friend of the family. And he's one of my prop bets. Early season prop bets. Good call. 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Ryu goes to Toronto in the Baby Jays. That's fun. Kikel to the White Sox. White Sox had a fun offseason. I'm forgetting how much the White Sox. They did it early in the offseason. They did it early. They made their moves. Atlanta brought in Cole Hamels. I think he's still recovering a little bit, but expect him to join that young rotation.  Oda Rizzi accepted the qualifying offer with Minnesota. Odo's our guy. Mad Pump went to Arizona, which was a shocking move. And then it kind of filters out a little bit. Actually, hey, Kyle Gibson to Texas. That was kind of a big one. And then Tehran, Gossman, and some other guys. But Cole, Strasburg, and Wheeler were really the stories. But a couple of south paws after that were Ryu and Kikel, so. That was a lot. Wow. Boom. Just like that, we're back. Yes. Welcome back.


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