Title: Gas Turbine Performance, 2nd Edition (I.E.) Author: P. Fetcher, P. P. Walsh ISBN: 812652572X / 9788126525720 Format: Soft Cover Pages: 646 Publisher: Blackwell Year: 2010 Availability: Out of Stock
Description
Contents
This book provides a practical guide to the fundamentals of performance, including the requirements of all major applications. power generation, mechanical drive, automotive, marine and aircraft installations. The new edition includes two additional chapters on performance issues of engines in-service and on the techno-economic issues that determine whether a gas turbine project will be profitable.
Foreword to the First Edition
Preface
Gas Turbine Engine Configurations
Chapter 1 : Gas Turbine Engine Applications Chapter 2 : The Operational Envelope Chapter 3 : Properties and Charts for Dry Air, Combustion Products and other Working Fluids Chapter 4 : Dimensionless, Quasidimensionless, Referred and Scaling Parameter Group Chapter 5 : Gas Turbine Engine Components Chapter 6 : Design Point Performance and Engine Concept Design Chapter 7 : Off Design Performance Chapter 8 : Transient Performance Chapter 9 : Starting Chapter 10 : Windmilling Chapter 11 : Engine Performance Testing Chapter 12 : The Effects of Water - Liquid, Stream and Ice Chapter 13 : Fuel and Oil Properties and their Impact Chapter 14 : Performance of In-service Products Chapter 15 : Performance and the Economics of Gas Turbine Engines
Appendix A : Station Numbering and Nomenclature
Appendix B : Unit Conversions
References
Index