Overview
- Guide for solving real world problems with modern computer software
- Good text for teaching gas turbine design and performance
- Solutions of overall system simulation problems
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Simulation Tasks
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Preliminary Design
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Off-Design
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Basics
Keywords
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Joachim Kurzke spent his engineering life dealing with gas turbine performance, first at the Technical University of Munich, Institute for Flight Propulsion.
1976 Kurzke joined the performance department of the company which is now MTU Aero Engines and stayed there for 28 years. He worked on a multitude of different engine projects, designed the engine performance program MOPS for MTU, and applied it to the everyday problems in the performance department.
MOPS is due to the modular design very flexible and can be adapted easily to new requirements, however, it’s use requires significant training in gas turbine performance. This observation resulted in the development of the performance program GasTurb™. This software concentrates on the user interface, without neglecting any detail which is required for professional gas turbine performance work. After more than 20 years in the public domain, GasTurb™ is well known and acknowledged all over the world.
Kurzke has published numerous papers dealing with gas turbine performance, and was a member of several RTO (former AGARD) working groups, as well as the SAE E33 committee “Thrust in Flight”. He is still a member of the ASME/IGTI Aircraft Engine and Education Committees.
Ian Halliwell obtained his B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering and M.Sc. in Aerodynamics from Imperial College, London, followed by a Ph.D. in Experimental Gas Dynamics from the University of Southampton. His professional career began in 1975 at Rolls-Royce, Derby in Turbine Aerodynamics Research. He then crossed the Atlantic to work for Pratt and Whitney Canada in Mississauga and subsequently GE in Cincinnati, where he moved into the preliminary design of complete engine systems and spent a few years on the High Speed Civil Transport program. During that period, he also began teaching in GE after-hours education.
While continuingto model complete engine systems, his teaching activities continued after moving to the small business world, as a contractor at the NASA Glenn Research Center and expanded through involvement with AIAA and ASME/IGTI. He chaired the AIAA Air Breathing Propulsion and Gas Turbine Engine Technical Committees and is still an active member of AIAA. He is also a member of the ASME/IGTI Aircraft Engine and Education Committees. His connection to students and university faculty was enhanced during the 14 years he organized the AIAA International Engine Design Competition for undergraduate teams. He met Joachim Kurzke while presenting a tutorial on Preliminary Engine Design at ASME TurboExpo in 2001 and the seeds were sown for this book a few years later.
His current special interests are in new engine architectures, involving vaneless counter-rotation and exoskeletal architectures for compressors and turbines – both axial and radial. The past 10 years or so, back in aerodynamics, involved the development and application of new design tools.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Propulsion and Power
Book Subtitle: An Exploration of Gas Turbine Performance Modeling
Authors: Joachim Kurzke, Ian Halliwell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75979-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75977-7Published: 11 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09370-9Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75979-1Published: 28 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 755
Number of Illustrations: 557 b/w illustrations
Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Engineering Design, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture), Transportation