Turbines consist of a set of rotor blades interleaved with a set of stationary blades, or stators.  The working fluid enters at high velocity and expands as it flows through the turbine.  This expansion, resisted by the rotor blades, causes the rotor shaft to turn, creating shaft work.  The temperature of the working fluid also drops during this process.  The fluid entering the turbine must be either dry saturated vapor or gas; wet saturated vapors or liquids will seriously erode the turbine blades due to the high velocity of the fluid stream. 

Possible modeling assumptions for turbines include isentropic and adiabatic.


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