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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kerrebrock, Jack L.
Aircraft engines and gas turbines/Jack L. Kerrebrock.-2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Aircraft gas-turbines. I. Title.
TL709.K46 1992
629.134 ?35-dc20

91-41047
CIP

10 9 8 7 6 5 4

Acknowledgements

My contacts within the aircraft propulsion community-industrial, government, and academic-have broadened since the writing of the first edition; the number of persons to whom I am indebted has increased well beyond my ability to accurately record them all here. But some certainly must be noted. Professors Alan H. Epstein and Edward F. Greitzer of MIT, Professor Nicholas Cumpsty of Cambridge University, and Professors Frank Marble and Edward Zukoski of Caltech have contributed greatly to my understanding of the fluid mechanics of aircraft propulsion. I have been privileged to work with many excellent doctoral students at MIT; each contributed more to my understanding than I to theirs. Those who influenced the contents of this book include Wai K. Cheng, Edward F. Crawley, Mohammed K. Durali, James Fabunmi, Alan H. Epstein, Jeffrey B. Gertz, John C. Kreatsoulas, Wing F. Ng, Arun Sehra, William T. Thompkins, and Vreg Yousefian.

The undergraduate students who have used the first edition in classes at MIT...