| Pumps, fans, compressors and turbines are essential components in all engineering complexes. This book explains the basic fluid mechanics and thermodynamics underlying their design in a clear and uncomplicated way, with many examples and worked exercises. A wealth of problems and solutions are also included in the book to assist students.
An important class of fluid machine has, as its characteristic, the transfer of energy between a continuous stream of fluid and an element rotating about a fixed axis. Such a machine is classed as a turbomachine: fans, pumps, compressors and turbines come into this group. Discussion is limited in this book to those machines where the fluid is at all times totally enclosed by the machine elements, so that it is controlled by passage walls. This restriction excludes the Pelton turbine and wind turbines. |