The paper describes a theoretical treatment for nucleating throughflow of steam in a turbine stage. The conservation equations governing the overall behaviour of the fluid are combined with those describing droplet behaviour and treated by a time-marching method. The computer program developed has been applied to some test cases and comparisons are presented between solutions allowing for non-equilibrium effects and those in which steam has been assumed to remain in thermodynamic equilibrium.
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