Thermo-Fluid Essentials for Gas Turbine Design

As seen in the previous chapters, gas turbines consist of many components within which a chain of conversion of energy takes place. Design of a modern gas turbine engine with its components requires solid knowledge of aero-thermodynamic, heat transfer, combustion and solid mechanics design of these components. Aerothermodynamics is the very basic tool for design, off-design and dynamic calculations of gas turbine components and hence the gas turbine system.