Compressor Tip Speed
Calculate rotor tip speed, corrected speed, and tip Mach number for compressor preliminary checks.
Tip Mach
1.25 M
424.1 m/s tip speed / 340.3 m/s sound speed
Tip speed
424.1 m/s
pi D N / 60 from 0.45 m rotor
Corrected speed
18,000.00 rpm
referenced to 288.15 K compressor inlet temperature
Compressor tip Mach
Rotor diameter and rpm set blade tip speed; inlet temperature sets the sound speed used for the Mach check.
M 1.25 / transonic tip region
Tip-speed relation
Utip = pi D N / 60
Sound-speed reference
340.3 m/s from sqrt(gamma R T)
Tip Mach
M 1.246
transonic tip region
Temperature correction
18,000 rpm corrected
actual speed 18,000 rpm at 288.2 K
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