Volume 24, Issue 2 No AccessReal-Gas Effects in Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine NozzlesP. Colonna, J. Harinck, S. Rebay and A. GuardoneP. Colonna Delft University of Technology, 2628 California Delft, The NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this author, J. Harinck Delft University of Technology, 2628 California Delft, The NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this author, S. Rebay Università degli Studi di Brescia, 25123 Brescia, ItalySearch for more papers by this author and A. Guardone Politecnico di Milano, 20159 Milano, ItalySearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:23 May 2012https://doi.org/10.2514/1.29718SectionsRead Now ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee PDF for referencesCited byUnderstanding and modeling unstarting phenomena in a supersonic inlet cascade2 October 2023 | Physics of Fluids, Vol. 35, No. 10Numerical investigation of trailing edge losses in transonic ORC turbines17 February 2023 | Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, Vol. 237, No. 5Numerical simulation of ideal and non-ideal under-expanded supersonic jets with adaptive gridsJournal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 427On the Development of an Implicit Discontinuous Galerkin Solver for Turbulent Real Gas Flows31 March 2023 | Fluids, Vol. 8, No. 4Design and numerical 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