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Axial and Radial
Turbines
Hany Moustapha, Mark Zelesky,
Nicholas Baines, David Japikse
$145.00
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The book is suitable for engineers at all levels working in turbine
design, together with managers, users, and sales personnel who
need to understand the current level and future directions of
technology. It is also aimed at university researchers and graduate
students working in this field, for whom it represents a comprehensive
review of the state of the art.
For many years Concepts NREC has offered a course on axial and
radial turbine design to practicing engineers and students of
turbomachinery, presented by the authors of this volume. The present
book has been developed from that. It is, however, very much more
than a simple collection and reprinting of the course notes. Great
effort has been made to produce a book that presents a complete,
coherent, and up to date account of the design and analysis of
axial and radial turbines.
Contents:
- Turbine fundamentals and parameters
- Aerodynamic losses
- Preliminary and through flow design
- Airfoil design
- Advanced turbine design
- Turbine durability and cooling
- Introduction to radial turbines
- The aerodynamics of radial turbines
- Radial turbine design
- Exhaust energy recovery
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Design of Highly
Loaded Axial-
Flow Fans & Compressors
Arthur J. Wennerstrom - $95.00
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In this monograph the author summarizes the most important points
he has learned during a career devoted to advanced fan and compressor
research and development. Although all of this work was originally
aimed at military aircraft engine applications, much of it is
relevant to commercial aircraft engines and also to industrial
and even consumer-oriented turbomachinery.
Guidance is given to the aerodynamic designer in most aspects
of the detail design of axial compressors, backed up with references
which the reader can pursue for a more comprehensive treatment
of individual points. Practical and convenient design approaches
are recommended wherever possible. The author believes that the
simplest approach which can be logically defended is usually the
best one unless a designer has a very good reason for escalating
the level of complexity in any area.
Contents:
- Review of the means of achieving high loading
- Approaches to the detail design of a highly-loaded compressor
stage
- Empirical input required for detail design
- The axisymmetric through-blade design approach
- The definition of arbitrary airfoil geometry
- Design optimization using a three-dimensional CFD code
- Secondary-flow considerations for multi-stage designs
- Advanced methods for increasing loading
- Corrections for rotor blade deflections due to stress
- Aeroelastic considerations for fans and compressors
- Compressor development lessons learned the hard way
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Diffuser Design Technology
David Japikse and Nicholas C. Baines
$160.00
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This volume is the most comprehensive review of diffuser technology
ever published. Over 1,500 original research papers have been
examined, and their results have been summarized and collated
into a single reference volume with a critical commentary by the
authors. This provides an overview which will help to focus attention
on the essential characteristics of diffusers and their applications,
and a broad perspective by which new researchers and engineers
can obtain an effective orientation to the basic characteristics
of diffuser fluid dynamic problems.
Originally published for a limited readership in 1984, this has
now been completely revised and updated with the latest findings
and understanding of the subject.
Contents:
- Basic elements of diffuser technology
- Channel diffuser technology
- Conical diffuser technology
- Annular diffusers with axial inlets
- Radial flow vaneless diffusers
- Calculation methods for diffusers
- Flow structure of research diffusers
- Diffuser augmentation
- Compendium of diffuser maps
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Centrifugal Pump Design and Performance
David Japikse, William D. Marscher,
and Raymond B. Furst
$145.00
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This is the most thorough, up-to-date, and comprehensive review
of centrifugal pump design published in many years. The authors
are practicing engineers with a wealth of experience in pump hydraulic
and mechanical design, manufacture, installation, and troubleshooting.
The book outlines significant contributions made to the pump technology
industry worldwide and is a must for every pump engineer.
Contents:
- Background and foundation of pump performance
- Impeller flow physics
- Diffusers in centrifugal pump design
- Additional stage elements
- Operating limits: stability and cavitation
- Centrifugal pump stress and structural vibration
- Systematic design and optimization
- Design and performance of rocket engine turbopumps
- Experimental development
- Problem sets for each chapter
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Introduction to Dynamics of Rotor-Bearing
Systems ,
Wen Jeng Chen and Edgar J. Gunter
$120.00
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This book is written as an introduction to rotor-bearing dynamics
for practicing engnieers and students who are involved in rotor
dynamics and bearing designs. The goal of this book is to provide
a step-by-step approach to the understanding of fundamentals of
rotor-bearing dynamics. Therefore, the emphasis of this book is
on the basic principals, phenomena, modeling, theory, and interpretations
of the results. Numerous examples, from a single-degree-of-freedom
system to complicated industrial rotating machinery, are employed
throughout this book to illustrate these fundamental dynamic behaviors.
The concepts in the text are reinforced by parametric studies
and numerous illustrative examples and figures.
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Introduction to Turbomachinery,
Reprint
David Japikse and Nicholas C. Baines
$125.00
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The result of many years of teaching, research, and consulting
within universities and the professional turbomachinery industry,
this unique book presents comprehensive coverage of fundamental
principles and industrial design, and also covers turbomachinery
application diversity. It focuses on basic physical understanding
but acknowledges advances in modern computing methods and experimental
techniques made to the turbomachinery industry.
Contents:
- Introduction to turbomachinery
- Essentials of turbomachinery performance
- Essentials of turbomachinery durability
- Centrifugal compressors and pumps
- Axial fans, compressors, and pumps
- Axial turbines
- Radial turbines
- Modeling turbomachinery flows
- Stability and range
- The design approach
- Experimental methods for turbomachinery development
- Problem sets for each chapter
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Centrifugal Compressor Design and
Performance
David Japikse - $125.00
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This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the technology
base of compressors and is a practical guide for designers. The
author has been a major contributor to the research and development
of centrifugal compressors for many years and has been responsible
for a number of significant technological advances, such as the
two-zone model of impeller flow, and the TEIS (two-elements-in-series)
model of diffusion. Design examples from the author's vast experience
are used extensively.
Contents:
- Foundation of compressor design
- Impeller flow physics
- Diffusers in centrifugal compressor design
- Additional stage elements
- Stability and range
- Strategies for systematic design and optimization
- Centrifugal compressor experimental development
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Hydrodynamics of Pumps
Christopher E. Brennen,
California Institute of Technology
$95.00
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This unique text focuses on those special problems and design
issues associated with pumps: the potential for cavitation, the
damage and vibration problems which result from cavitation, and
the possibility of large unsteady flows and forces on the machine.
The book provides a coherent and unified treatment of the hydrodynamics
of pumps with an emphasis on the underlying physical phenomena.
An important reference text for engineers and scientists, it is
also appropriate for graduate courses in turbomachinery.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Basic principles
- Two-dimensional performance analysis
- Other flow features
- Cavitation parameters and inception
- Bubble dynamics, damage, and noise
- Cavitation and pump performance
- Pump vibration
- Unsteady flow in hydraulic systems
- Radial and rotordynamic forces
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A thorough survey and analysis of investigations into instabilities
in axial and centrifugal compressors, this book provides a resource
for engineers and scientists working in compressor design or wishing
to gain an up-to-date understanding of the field. It is suggested
for compressor designers and users who appreciate the need for
understandable surge lines for a wide range of stall-free, surge-free
operation.
Contents:
- Concept of compressor stability
- Compressor stall
- Stall correlations
- Compressor surge
- Multistage compressors
- Surge and stall theory
- Methods for extending stable operation
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Advanced Experimental Techniques
in Turbomachinery
David Japikse (Editor)
$49.50 (Paperback)
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The modern worker often finds the process of information documentation,
storage and retrieval to be overwhelming. The task of remaining
current in a technical discipline is almost a full time occupation,
in addition to the daily responsibility of contributing to progress
in a technical field. The material in this volume has been selected
from principal lectures provided by key contributors to the turbomachinery
field. Each chapter in this book has been prepared in close collaboration
with the original author. Extensive editing has been carried out
to ensure a readable and accurate text.
The intent of this text is to make available the key material
collected by recognized lecturers for the general usage in industry.
Since the authors of the various chapters are key experts in their
field, these chapters should serve as appropriate starting points
for thought by many readers.
Contents:
- Advanced experimental techniques for turbomachinery development
(D. Eckardt)
- Pressure and velocity measurements (T. R. Heidrick)
- Thermocouple theory and practice (R. J. Moffatt)
- Standards for turbomachinery laboratory work (D. Japikse)
- Successes in the application of laser velocimetry to turbomachinery
studies
(H. Krain, R. Schodl, A. Binder, and R. Dunker)
- State-of-the-art gas turbine measurement techniques (W. G.
Alwang)
- Blade pressure measurements (J. W. H. Chivers)
- The design, development, and operation of gas turbine radio
telemetry systems
(J. G. B. Worthy)
- Solving 100 turbomachinery fluid dynamic test problems (D.
Japikse)
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This book is the first comprehensive treatment of turbochargers
and turbocharging to be made widely available in the last twenty
years. It is intended to serve as both an introduction to the
turbocharger itself, and to the problems of matching a turbocharger
with an internal combustion engine. The turbocharger is a highly
sophisticated device, which has been described as aerospace gas
turbine engineering allied to mass production techniques. Undoubtedly
the key to commercial success lies in achieving the correct compromise
between performance, life, and cost, and this runs as a continuous
thread through the book.
The operation of turbomachines is fundamentally different from
that of reciprocating machines, so that the turbocharged engine
has many complex characteristics, not all of them desirable. The
means by which the advantageous characteristics are exploited
to the full, and the technology required to overcome disadvantageous,
are fully explained. The latter includes modern developments such
as variable geometry, turbocompounding, and electric assist.
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