Gas Turbine Cycles
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Gas Turbine Cycles
£4.50
Topics in this product include turbojet, turboprop and turbofan thrust and efficiency, ideal and real turbofan calculations, combustor and compressor design, and axial turbine limitations.
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PropulsionPage-by-page contents
Propulsion
Page-by-page contents
- 01Basic gas generator, turbojet, turboprop, turbofan
- 02Thrust equation derivation, overall efficiency, thermal efficiency, propulsion efficiency
- 03Thrust, efficiency, specific thrust, Breguet’s range formula derivation
- 04Ramjet engine, h-s diagram, enthalpy-entropy, energy equation
- 05Ideal ramjet calculation, example
- 06Ideal turbojet, h-s diagram, reheat, ideal turbojet calculation, conventional h-s diagram of turbojet
- 07Ideal turbofan, calculation, optimisation
- 08Ideal turbofan, real turbofan, adiabatic efficiencies, diffuser, compressor, turbine, nozzle, burner
- 09Combustors, flame stability loop, zonal combustions, combustor characteristics, primary zone design, atomisers
- 10Compressors, velocities in frame of reference, blockage, deviation
- 11Real losses in compressors, friction, secondary flow, stall losses, separation, shock losses, repeating stage, reaction
- 12Temperature and flow coefficients, stage efficiency, surge and rotating stall, stage stacking
- 13Non-dimensional parameters of a compressor, mass flow rate, rotational speed, map of compressor regimes
- 14Axial turbines, turbine limitations, turbine h-s diagram, equilibrium running line