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It is now 71 years since the first successful electric power-generating gas turbine, designed and constructed by A. B. Brown Boveri, went into commercial operation in 1939 in the municipal power station in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. In the same year on 27 August, the world’s first aircraft to fly on turbojet power, the Heinkel He 178 took off from the airfield in Rostock, Germany. Ten years later the worlds first commercial jet airliner made its maiden flight. Since that time the gas turbine found more and more applications in fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, ships, power stations and in the gas compression stations of pipelines.
Gas turbine performance is an engineering discipline dealing with many tasks:
- Specification of the overall engine performance design aim and - derived from this - the component design data.
- Interpretation of engine test results and diagnosis of operational problems.
- Developing and maintaining the overall gas turbine system model.
- Providing control system designers with a simulation of the engine behavior.
- Finding out performance enhancement options for derivative engines.
- Providing operators, airframe manufacturers and power station designers with mathematical models.
- Assessing competitive gas turbines with respect to their suitability for specific applications.
- Providing material for teaching gas turbine performance.
Performance has to be understood by all concerned with gas turbine technology. The software offered on this web site is useful for those working for gas turbine industry, airframe manufactures and airlines, engine maintenance companies and operators of air, land and sea based gas turbines. It is helpful for consultants as well as research organizations and - last but not least - the software is exceptionally well suited for teaching at academies and universities.
The main differences to competitive software are in the graphical user interface and the quality of the graphical output. Get your own impression - surf this web site.
Last update
25 Jun, 2010
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