Aerothermodynamics

of Aircraft
Engine Components
Edited by
Gordon C. Oates
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

AIAA E D U C A T I O N SERIES
J. S. Przemieniecki
Series Editor-in-Chief
Air Force Institute of Technology
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

Published by
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
1633 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
New York, New York

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Main entry under title:

Aerothermodynamics of aircraft engine components.

(AIAA education series)

Includes index.
1. Aerothermodynamics. 2. Aircraft gas turbines.
I. Oates, Gordon C.
TL574.A45A37 1985 629.134'353 85-13355
ISBN 0-915928-97-3

Second Printing

Copyright 1985 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astro-

nautics, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted,
in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system,
without the prior written permission of the publisher.
 Foreword

Aerothermodynamics of Aircraft Engine Components, edited by Gordon

C. Oates, is the third volume in the newly established Education Series
of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). It
complements an earlier volume on the Aerothermodynamics of Gas
Turbine and Rocket Propulsion by Gordon C. Oates, and it will be
followed by a volume on the Aircraft Propulsion System Technology
and Design. These three texts will represent a comprehensive descrip-
tion of aircraft gas turbine theory and technology. They will provide
an understanding of the principles of the design of modern aircraft
engines and stimulate interest in one of the most important disciplines
in aerospace industry.
The Education Series represents the AIAA's response to a need
for textbooks and monographs in highly specialized disciplines of
aeronautics and astronautics. The Institute's Publications Committee
identified this need and endorsed this new series as a service to the
aerospace engineering profession. The present volume covers a wide
spectrum of topics including combustion, afterburners, axial compres-
sors, turbine aerodynamics, turbine cooling, turbomachinery boundary
layers, and engine noise. The comprehensive treatment of each topic
makes this volume suitable for the graduate student and, as well, the
practicing engineer or scientist concerned with the development and
design of aircraft engines.
The publication of this volume would not have been possible
without the support of the U.S. Air Force Wright Aeronautical
Laboratories, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and other
organizations, notably the California Institute of Technology, Cam-
bridge University, Engineering Research Institute of Iowa State Uni-
versity, Exxon Research Engineering Company, General Electric,
Scientific Research Associates, and United Technologies Research
Center. Their cooperation and support has made it possible to pro-
duce a comprehensive textbook covering the most important aspects
of aerothermodynamic principles in the design of aircraft engine
components.

J. S. P R Z E M I E N I E C K I
Editor-in-Chief
AIAA Education Series
 Preface

This book was conceived as a fundamental text and reference for

advanced engineering students and practicing engineers. It will, we
hope, particularly interest and inform advanced students planning to
expand their understanding beyond what they would normally attain
in senior or first-year graduate classes. In addition, we hope and
expect that engineers planning on embarking upon research will find
these writings a solid foundation from which to initiate their own
programs.
This book complements a preceding volume in the AIAA Educa-
tion Series, Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propul-
sion, by expanding upon the fundamentals and introducing advanced
material leading to identification of the research issues of the day.
Each chapter is written by an expert in the given speciality. Because of
the advanced nature and complexity of the material, only minor
efforts have been made to standardize on notation.
Taken in total, the book presents, we believe, a comprehen-
sive overview of the fundamentals of the major aircraft engine
components.

GORDON C. OATES
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

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