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Turbomachines are important machines in our industrial civilization. Steam turbines are used to generate electricity at central station power plants, whether fueled by coal or uranium. Gas turbines and axial compressors are found in jet engines. Aero-derivative gas turbines are used to generate electricity with natural gas as fuel. Same technology is used to drive centrifugal compressors for transmission of natural gas across continents. Blowers and fans are in use for mine and industrial ventilation. Large pumps provide feed-water to boilers and move wastewater in sanitation plants. Hydraulic turbines generate electricity from water stored in reservoirs, and wind turbines do the same from the blowing wind.
This is a textbook on turbomachines. It aims for a unified treatment of the subject
matter, with consistent notation and concepts. Chapter 4 is new to this edition. It consists of an account of droplet laden flows of steam that is relevant to the flow in the low pressure end of a steam turbine. It is quite specialized and ought to be left for an advanced course, or later self-study. Similarly, the new section on oblique shocks in Chapter 3 is included as background material for understanding phenomena in transonic compressors. Those with a background on thermodynamics and gas dynamics, may just glance through Chapter 2 and early parts of Chapter 3. Some sample computer codes are given in the text. They are based on MATLAB and its equivalent GNU-OCTAVE. The latter is free software and tailored to be compatible with MATLAB. In the Appendix B is a script that can be used in the calculations
of air with variable specific heats. The program XSTEAM by Magnus Holmgren is used
when the properties of steam are needed. It is available from Mathworks website. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/profile/authors/870351-magnus-holmgren