Fundamentals of Turbomachinery simplifies complex turbomachinery concepts, helping engineering students understand the basics step-by-step to prepare for more advanced studies and real-world applications. It provides the theoretical details with a strong emphasis on a solid mathematical foundation.
Fundamentals of Turbomachinery simplifies complex turbomachinery concepts, helping engineering students understand the basics step-by-step to prepare for more advanced studies and real-world applications. It provides the theoretical details needed to explain the principles underlying turbomachinery behavior with a strong emphasis on a solid mathematical foundation.
Designed to guide readers through an understanding of machines in terms of increasing complexity, this textbook focuses on core principles instead of advanced approximations or computational tools. It covers dimensional analysis and pump systems before progressing into axial compressors, axial turbines, centrifugal compressors, and centripetal turbines. The chapters transition from theoretical and mathematical concepts to practical applications and feature numerous end-of-chapter problems and examples.
This book is intended for senior undergraduate engineering students taking turbomachinery and fluid mechanics courses.
Instructors will be able to utilize a Solutions Manual and Figure Slides for their course.
1. Basic Concepts.
2. Introduction to Turbomachines.
3. One-Dimensional
Theory of Turbomachines.
4. Dimensional Analysis of Turbomachines.
5. Pump
Systems.
6. Two-Dimensional Cascades.
7. Three-Dimensional Flow in Axial Flow
Machines.
8. Three-Dimensional Flow Losses.
9. Axial Flow Compressors.
10.
Axial Flow Turbines.
11. Centrifugal Compressors.
12. Centripetal Turbines.
13. General Principles of Rotor Dynamics in Turbomachinery.
14. Materials for
Turbomachines. Appendix A.
Dr. Ernesto Benini is a Full Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Padova, Italy, and leads the TEMPEST research group. He earned his PhD in Energy Science and Engineering (2000) from the University of Padova, Italy. He has more than 25 years of experience in the research and development of advanced methods for the design and analysis of high-speed fluid machines, with an emphasis on super-hypersonic propulsion and transonic machines. He is a Principal Investigator of numerous private and European research projects, as well as a Scientific Advisor to major international companies in the propulsion sector. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a member of the Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innovation in Europe (ACARE). He serves as the Chair of the AIAA Gas Turbine Engines Technical Committee Education. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 scientific publications concerning fluid dynamics of machines and has also been granted several international patents.
