The report opens with a brief survey of various blade profiles and their two-dimensional cascade performance characteristics. The requirements of the different stages of an axial compressor are then discussed. This is ...

This report describes tests on a single compressor stage with circumferentially non-uniform inlet conditions. The stage was a model of the first stage of a typical modern aircraft-engine compressor, and the tests were ...

In general, conventional compressor stages are designed by the cascade method, while high stagger low solidity ducted fans are designed on modified isolated aerofoil theory. The purpose of these notes is to provide a basis ...