Gas Turbines

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.