""In Prime Movers, Smil's passion for the Cinderellas of civilization focuses on the diesel engines and gas turbines that power ocean vessels and wide-body jets. These engines have made ocean shipping and intercontinental air travel so cheap that they have changed the face of ou…
""In Prime Movers, Smil's passion for the Cinderellas of civilization focuses on the diesel engines and gas turbines that power ocean vessels and wide-body jets. These engines have made ocean shipping and intercontinental air travel so cheap that they have changed the face of ou…
Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines is widely used as a text in the United States and abroad, and has also become a standard reference for professionals in the aircraft engine industry. Unique in treating the engine as a complete system at increasing levels of sophistication, it c…
Covering all types of modern aircraft engines, including turbojets, turbofans and turboprops, this text treats the engine as a complete system at increasing levels of sophistication, and also discusses hypersonic propulsion systems of the future.
Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines is widely used as a text in the United States and abroad, and has also become a standard reference for professionals in the aircraft engine industry. Unique in treating the engine as a complete system at increasing levels of sophistication, it c…
Proceedings of a Conference Held at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 5-7 October 1999. Contents include: Design and Life Management; Cracks and Lifing; Continuum Damage; Coatings; Low Ductility Materials; Remaining Life Assessment; Repair Technology.
Blending fuels with hydrogen offers the potential to reduce NOx and CO2 emissions in gas turbines, but doing so introduces potential new problems such as flashback. Flashback can lead to thermal overload and destruction of hardware in the turbine engine, with potentially expens…
