Handbook of Turbomachinery and Mechanical Engineering

The text Handbook of Turbomachinery and Mechanical Engineering presents new material on advances in fluid mechanics of turbomachinery, high-speed, rotating, and transient experiments, cooling challenges for constantly increasing gas temperatures, advanced experimental heat transfer and cooling effectiveness techniques, and propagation of wake and pressure disturbances. Performance modelling of steam turbine performance using fuzzy logic membership functions has been focused in first chapter. A study on fluid self-excited flutter and forced response of turbomachinery rotor blade has been presented in second chapter. Third chapter discusses some design systems for turbomachinery applications that have been developed over the years in order to assist the designer in finding the optimal geometry by making better use of the available information.-