The Design of High-Efficiency Turbomachinery and Gas Turbines, second edition, with a new preface

A welcome return. Any book can present equations and algorithms; these authors desire to give us insight. They want to enable us to reason why certain choices are better than others and understand the consequences of our decisions. I have appreciated this book for a long time. It is not harder, but makes us smarter.

Andrew R. Mech, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

You have to be smarter than the wheelbarrow you're operating! The object of the metaphor is to encourage the student to understand what is happening inside the gas turbine. In this text the authors use a design approach not found in other texts. That is why I specified the second edition of this book when I started teaching my gas turbines class. My sincere thanks to the authors and the MIT Press for producing this updated second edition.

Raymond L. Mathewson, Jr., Associate Professor, United States Merchant Marine Academy; author of Thermodynamic Review Notes for Thermal Power Systems

Turbomachinery designs of high efficiency are essential for the production of high efficiency gas turbine engines, hence it is appropriate to combine these subjects in one text and this is done in a clear and comprehensive manner. There are a great number of textbooks on these subjects but what makes this text stand out is the ability to make the subject highly accessible with its emphasis on a design approach in thermodynamics, turbomachines, and associated elements such as combustors and heat exchangers. Given the quantity and depth of material presented, the authors are to be greatly commended in making such information accessible that has in the past been difficult to extract from a plethora of specialist research papers.

K. R. Pullen, Professor and Chair in Energy Systems, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, City University London