Gas Turbine Performance, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Philip P. Walsh, Paul Fletcher(auth.)

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 660
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A significant addition to the literature on gas turbine technology, the second edition of Gas Turbine Performance is a lengthy text covering product advances and technological developments. Including extensive figures, charts, tables and formulae, this book will interest everyone concerned with gas turbine technology, whether they are designers, marketing staff or users.Content:
Chapter 1 Gas Turbine Engine Applications (pages 9–60):
Chapter 2 The Operational Envelope (pages 61–101):
Chapter 3 Properties and Charts for Dry Air, Combustion Products and other Working Fluids (pages 102–142):
Chapter 4 Dimensionless, Quasidimensionless, Referred and Scaling Parameter Groups (pages 143–158):
Chapter 5 Gas Turbine Engine Components (pages 159–291):
Chapter 6 Design Point Performance and Engine Concept Design (pages 292–382):
Chapter 7 Off Design Performance (pages 383–443):
Chapter 8 Transient Performance (pages 444–476):
Chapter 9 Starting (pages 477–500):
Chapter 10 Windmilling (pages 501–518):
Chapter 11 Engine Performance Testing (pages 519–563):
Chapter 12 The Effects of Water—Liquid, Steam and Ice (pages 564–586):
Chapter 13 Fuel and Oil Properties and their Impact (pages 587–598):
Chapter 14 Performance of In?Service Products (pages 599–606):
Chapter 15 Performance and the Economics of Gas Turbine Engines (pages 607–616):