S. Larry Dixon (Senior Fellow at the University of Liverpool), Cesare Hall (University of C University Lecturer in Turbomachinery

Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Starting with background principles in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, this title discusses axial flow turbines and compressors, centrifugal pumps, fans, and compressors, and radial flow gas turbines, hydraulic turbines, and wind turbines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
• 7 ed
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 191mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1308g
• ISBN-13: 9780124159549
• ISBN-10: 0124159540
• Artikelnr.: 36867913

Autorenporträt

Dr. Dixon has published numerous scientific research papers in turbomachinery and lectured in turbomachinery at the University of Liverpool for nearly 40 years. For 25 of those years he was Chief Examiner in Mechanics for the Council of Engineering Institutions in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction-Basic Principles
Dimensional Analysis: Similitude
Two-dimensional Cascades
Axial-flow Turbines: Mean-line Analysis and Design
Axial-flow Compressors and Ducted Fans
Three-dimensional Flows in Axial Turbomachines
Centrifugal Pumps, Fans and Compressors
Radial Flow Gas Turbines
Hydraulic Turbines
Wind Turbines
Appendix A: Preliminary Design of an Axial-flow Turbine for a Large Turbocharger
Appendix B: Preliminary Design of a Centrifugal Compressor for a Turbocharger
Appendix C: Tables for the Compressible Flow of a Perfect Gas
Appendix D: Conversion of British and US Units to SI Units
Appendix E: Answers to Selected Problems
Index