A three-dimensional viscous cascade code has been developed for linear cascades with flat, parallel endwalls. It employs scalar implicit approximate factorization, a finite-volume formulation, second-order upwind differencing, and a two-equation q-& turbulence model based on integration to the wall. A special form of the thinlayer approximation for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations is used which gives accurate skin-friction predictions on highly skewed meshes, now based on sheared H-grids. This code has been validated by considering three-dimensional viscous flows in Langston's large-scale turbine blade geometry. This validation includes threedimensional heat-transfer predictions. Agreement with experiment is quite good.
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