Gas Turbines: Internal Flow Systems Modeling (Cambridge Aerospace Series, Series Number 44)

Gas Turbines: Internal Flow Systems Modeling (Cambridge Aerospace Series, Series Number 44)

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. '… it delivers a good reference text for the bookshelves of engineers practicing in this subject.' Dr. Adrian Spencer, The Aeronautical Journal This physics-first, design-oriented textbook explains concepts of gas turbine secondary flows, reduced-order modeling methods, and 3-D CFD. Bijay K. Sultanian is founder and managing member of Takaniki Communications, LLC, a provider of web-based, and live technical training programs for corporate engineering teams and an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida, where he has taught graduate-level courses in turbomachinery and fluid mechanics since 2006. Prior to founding his own company he worked in and led technical teams at a number of organizations, including Rolls-Royce, GE Aviation and Siemens Power and Gas. He is the author of Fluid Mechanics: An Intermediate Approach (2015) and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.