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
