Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery, 5e

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Rotor configurations (wind turbines) 353
effect of varying number of blades 354
effect of varying tip-speed ratio 354
optimum design criteria 356
Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) 145
Royal Society 3
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Scroll 210 304
Second law of thermodynamics 24 30
Secondary flow 65
losses 86
vorticity 65
Secondary flows 202
gyroscope analogy 202
overturning due to 203
Settling-rate rule 197
Shroud 210 249
Shape number 10
SI units 3
Similitude 6
Slip definition 222
Slip factor 222
in IFR turbines 259
Slip velocity 223
Soderberg’s correlation 72 98 106
aspect ratio correlation 99
Reynolds number correction 100
Sonoluminescence 319
Specific speed 10
application and significance 273
highest possible value 12
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