Exact calculation of the flow of a staggered tandem cascade with moving second blade row

Summary

 The plane flow around a tandem cascade of flat plates is calculated by means of conformal mapping. The blades of the two rows are perpendicular to each other. The first row is stationary, the second row moves with constant velocity. The conformal mapping will be constructed by a “mapping flow”. The blades of one row are stream lines and those of the other row are potential lines of the flow. By conformal mapping, the physical flow around the tandem cascade of the physical ζ-plane is converted into a flow between infinitely long straight walls in the z-plane, each wall corresponding to one of the blades. The conditions far upstream and far downstream of the cascade are represented by source-vortices. In the z-plane, the boundary conditions may be easily fulfilled by reflection and repetition of the source-vortices, and the flow may be calculated by well-known methods. The physical flow searched for is then obtained by inverse mapping.