Aerothermodynamics of Turbomachinery

• Overview of applications and construction designs for thermal turbomachinery (e.g. aircraft engines, gas turbines and steam turbines for power plants, turbochargers and compressors for industrial purposes)
• Energy conversion in a single stage of a turbomachine
• Fundamentals of thermodynamics: changes of state of the working medium, thermodynamic cycles and efficiencies
• Design of a blade cascade, physical cascade flow, characteristic blade parameter and setup of whole stages out of cascades
• Typical examples for the design of radial compressors, axial compressors and turbines using the example of a gas turbine

• Thermodynamics
• Fluid Mechanics I
• The lecture Fluid Mechanics II should be attended earlier or in the same semester

• Lecture notes
• Wilson, Korakianitis: The Design of High-Efficiency Turbomachinery and Gas Turbines, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, New York, 1998

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