This book, the world’s first technical dictionary on the gas turbine technology, is developed to be helpful for people involved with gas turbines including but not limited to users, designers, application engineers, project developers, consultants, operation, maintenance and repair, sales, contracts, procurement, etc.Gas turbines involve various engineering disciplines and/or topics such as aero-thermodynamics, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, vibrations, rotor dynamics, materials, metallurgy, manufacturing, coatings, cooling designs for hot gas-path components, operations, maintenance and repair methods, fuels and fuel systems, etc. With so many technical fields involved, it is difficult, if not impossible, for people involved with gas turbines to understand various technical terms encountered in the discussion or while reading the available literature.Instead of researching through multiple books and publications on various specialized topics related to gas turbines, it would be helpful if one book can provide preliminary information on important terms experienced. The main objective of this book is to provide a person involved in the gas turbine industry a resource, a desk-top handy reference guide, in finding preliminary, simple, and easy to understand description of various technical terms encountered while dealing with the most complex machine which depends on multiple engineering disciplines. It is developed so that all major areas of engineering related to the gas turbine are covered in one book.This book not only provides definition of a selected term, but it also includes additional details about the term as it might relate to the design, operation, maintenance, manufacturing, performance, and gas turbine history aspects, as applicable. Pictures of actual gas turbine parts, wherever possible, are included to get a better understanding of a specific term. A comprehensive list of widely used acronyms is provided. A selected list of bibliography has been included on major engineering disciplines for acquiring additional information on the included terms.
