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Volume 25, Issue 6
1 June 1953
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| June 01 1953

Efficiency and Drag of an Axial‐Flow Compressor Stage: The Connexion Between the Efficiency of a Stage, the Forces on the Blade Sections and the Profile Drag; the Relation Between Different Definitions of Efficiency, and the Effect of other Sources of Loss

J.M. Stephenson
Lately of the Performance Department, Engine Division, Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd.; now at Brown University, U.S.A.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1953
Aircraft Engineering (1953) 25 (6): 158–160.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb032298

THE performance of an axial‐flow compressor is most easily analysed in terms of the characteristics of each stage, by which is meant each pair of blade rows. Usually one row rotates on a central shaft and the other is fixed to an outer casing.

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