impulse turbine








noun

  1. a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.

noun

  1. a turbine in which the expansion of the fluid, often steam, is completed in a static nozzle, the torque being produced by the change in momentum of the fluid impinging on curved rotor bladesCompare reaction turbine
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