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Preliminary design of turbopumps and related machinery
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Wislicenus, George F. |
| Copyright Year | 1986 |
| Description | Pumps used in large liquid-fuel rocket engines are examined. The term preliminary design denotes the initial, creative phases of design, where the general shape and characteristics of the machine are determined. This compendium is intended to provide the design engineer responsible for these initial phases with a physical understanding and background knowledge of the numerous special fields involved in the design process. Primary attention is directed to the pumping part of the turbopump and hence is concerned with essentially incompressible fluids. However, compressible flow principles are developed. As much as possible, the simplicity and reliability of incompressible flow considerations are retained by treating the mechanics of compressible fluids as a departure from the theory of incompressible fluids. Five areas are discussed: a survey of the field of turbomachinery in dimensionless form; the theoretical principles of the hydrodynamic design of turbomachinery; the hydrodynamic and gas dynamic design of axial flow turbomachinery; the hydrodynamic and gas dynamic design of radial and mixed flow turbomachinery; and some mechanical design considerations of turbomachinery. Theoretical considerations are presented with a relatively elementary mathematical treatment. |
| File Size | 25544168 |
| Page Count | 406 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19870008232 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t5q866d9x |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1986-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aerodynamics Incompressible Flow Turbine Pumps Gas Dynamics Hydrodynamics Cavitation Flow Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines Rocket Engine Design Compressible Flow Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
