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Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Turbomachinery

ISBN: 978-0-471-85546-0
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848 pages
December 1995
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BUDUGUR LAKSHMINARAYANA is an Evan Pugh Professor of AerospaceEngineering, the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member atPennsylvania State University. He is also the Director of theCenter for Gas Turbines and Power. Dr. Lakshminarayana has morethan thirty years of teaching, research, and consulting experiencein turbomachinery aerodynamics, acoustics, and heat transfer;analytical, computational, and experimental fluid dynamics;aerospace propulsion; gas turbines; and turbulence modeling. He wasinstrumental in developing the Computational Fluid Dynamics Programat Penn State and directed this program from 1981 to 1987.

A Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauticsand the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dr.Lakshminarayana has received many awards and honors, including the1994 AIAA Air Breathing Propulsion Award, 1989 AIAA PendrayAerospace Literature Award, 1990 ASME Freeman Scholar Award, andAdvisory Professorships from the Shanghai Jaio Tong University andthe Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of EngineeringThermophysics. He was visiting faculty member at MIT, University ofCambridge, University of Aachen, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, IndianInstitute of Science, and NASA Ames Research Center. He has been aconsultant to the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of UnitedTechnologies, Teledyne CAE Turbine Engine Division, the U.S. Navy,Allied Signal (Garrett) Company, Rolls Royce, General MotorsCorporation, and Societe Europeene de Propulsion.
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