Turbine Aerodynamics, Heat Transfer, Materials, and Mechanics (Hardback)

Since the initial development and implementation of the modern gas turbine engine during the 1930s, tremendous progress has been made in advancing the technology for aircraft and marine propulsion, electric-power generation, and mechanical drives for industrial applications. Even with seventy years of development, there remain numerous opportunities for advances in efficiency, performance, service life, environmental friendliness, and affordability. A high-technology engineered system, the gas turbine can still benefit from advances in many fields to enable both breakthroughs and the removal of design constraints. Turbine Aerodynamics, Heat Transfer, Materials, and Mechanics, provides an introduction to turbines in the context of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, materials, and mechanics. Divided into four parts, it addresses Major considerations in the design of turbines, from aerodynamics to turbine cooling, seals, and clearance control for efficiency and performance Details of turbine cooling, including uncertainty issues that must be addressed in experimental and computational studies Super alloys, thermal barrier coatings, and mechanisms by which materials can fail due to thermal and mechanical loads, as well as the nondestructive evaluation of the turbine component Challenges that arise from burning alternative fuels and operating in dusty environments ABOUT THE EDITORS Tom I-P. Shih is Professor and Head of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Purdue University. His research interests include turbine cooling, control of shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions, aircraft icing, and verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification issues in computational fluid dynamics. A Fellow of AIAA and ASME, he was an associate editor of the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power and has been an editor for the Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering since 2008 and the Journal of Propulsion and Power Research since 2012. He received the Distinguished Engineering Educator Award from the Engineers’ Council of San Fernando Valley in Sherman Oaks, California in 2010. Vigor Yang is the William R. T. Oakes Professor and Chair of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include fluid and combustion dynamics in chemical propulsion systems, energetics, and high-pressure thermodynamics and transport. A Fellow of AIAA, ASME, and the Royal Aeronautical Society, he has been editor-in-chief of the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power and the JANNAF Journal of Propulsion and Energetics. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force Interagency Propulsion Committee in 2014.