axial flow turbine
11turbine — /terr bin, buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as …
12axial-centrifugal compressor — A combination of centrifugal and axial flow compressors in a gas turbine engine. The axial flow compressor is ahead and serves as a low pressure compressor, while the centrifugal flow compressor is in the rear and functions as a high pressure… …
13ax|i|al-flow — «AK see uhl FLOH», adjective. having a fluid flow directed by rotary blades and stators alg a line parallel to the axis of rotation: »an axial flow compressor, an axial flow turbine. An axial flow pump is a high speed pump used for liquid or for… …
14dual-spool gas turbine engine — An axial flow turbine engine with two independent axial flow compressors, each driven by its own stage(s) of turbines. The high pressure, or N2 , compressor is speed governed by the fuel control system. The speed of the low pressure compressor,… …
15Turbine — Tur bine, n. [L. turbo, inis, that which spins or whirls round, whirl.] 1. A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction …
16turbine wheel — Turbine Tur bine, n. [L. turbo, inis, that which spins or whirls round, whirl.] 1. A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or… …
17Turbine — A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin (1788 1873) coined the term from the Latin turbo , or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition. Benoit Fourneyron (1802 1867), a student of Claude Burdin,… …
18gas-turbine engine — Introduction any internal combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a… …
19Steam turbine — A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into rotary motion. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Parsons… …
20Gas turbine — Microturbine redirects here. For turbines in electricity, see Small wind turbine. For turbines driven by the flow of gas, see Turbine. A typical axial flow gas turbine turbojet, the J85, sectioned for display. Flow is left to right, multistage… …
