Gas Turbines: Internal Flow Systems Modeling: 44 (Cambridge Aerospace Series, Series Number 44)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 9/13/2018
EAN 9781107170094, ISBN10: 1107170095
Hardcover, 372 pages, 25.9 x 16 x 2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This long-awaited, physics-first and design-oriented text describes and explains the underlying flow and heat transfer theory of secondary air systems. An applications-oriented focus throughout the book provides the reader with robust solution techniques, state-of-the-art three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methodologies, and examples of compressible flow network modeling. It clearly explains elusive concepts of windage, non-isentropic generalized vortex, Ekman boundary layer, rotor disk pumping, and centrifugally-driven buoyant convection associated with gas turbine secondary flow systems featuring rotation. The book employs physics-based, design-oriented methodology to compute windage and swirl distributions in a complex rotor cavity formed by surfaces with arbitrary rotation, counter-rotation, and no rotation. This text will be a valuable tool for aircraft engine and industrial gas turbine design engineers as well as graduate students enrolled in advanced special topics courses.
1. Overview of gas turbines for propulsion and power generation
2. Review of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer
3. 1-D flow and network modeling
4. Internal flow around rotors and stators
5. Labyrinth seals
6. Whole engine modeling.