turbine-combustor assembly
1Combustor — Flame stabilized by cyclone. A combustor is a component or area of a gas turbine, ramjet, or scramjet engine where combustion takes place. It is also known as a burner, combustion chamber or flame holder. In a gas turbine engine, the combustor or …
2combustor — ☆ combustor [kəm bus′tər ] n. the chamber and related assembly in a jet engine, gas turbine, etc., in which combustion occurs …
3Turbine — 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,… …
4Gas 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… …
5Tesla turbine — The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centrifugal flow turbine expander patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional …
6Chrysler Turbine Car — Manufacturer Chrysler Corporation Production 55 Class Concept car …
7William C. Pfefferle — (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American scientist and inventor. Nicknamed the father of catalytic combustion, he invented the original catalytic combustor for gas turbine engines in the early 1970s. Gas turbines work by mixing fuel with… …
8Airbreathing jet engine — An airbreathing jet engine (or ducted jet engine) is a jet engine propelled by a jet of hot exhaust gases formed from air that is drawn into the engine via an inlet duct. All practical airbreathing jet engines are internal combustion engines that …
9CFM International CFM56 — CFM56 …
10Scramjet — Part of a series on Aircraft propulsion Shaft engines (to drive pr …
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