Aviation dictionary. 2014.
Turbine de tesla — La turbine de Tesla est un type de turbine sans pales breveté par Nikola Tesla en 1913. Elle utilise l effet de couche limite, et pas l impact d un fluide contre des pales comme c est le cas dans une turbine conventionnelle. La turbine de Tesla… … Wikipédia en Français
turbine — /terr bin, buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as … Universalium
Turbine de Tesla — La turbine de Tesla est un type de turbine sans pales breveté par Nikola Tesla en 1913. Elle utilise l effet de couche limite et non l impact d un fluide contre des pales comme c est le cas dans une turbine conventionnelle. La turbine de Tesla… … Wikipédia en Français
gas-turbine engine — Introduction any internal combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a… … Universalium
Gas turbine — Microturbine redirects here. For turbines in electricity, see Small wind turbine. For turbines driven by the flow of gas, see Turbine. A typical axial flow gas turbine turbojet, the J85, sectioned for display. Flow is left to right, multistage… … Wikipedia
Turbine — A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin (1788 1873) coined the term from the Latin turbo , or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition. Benoit Fourneyron (1802 1867), a student of Claude Burdin,… … Wikipedia
Inlet cone — Infobox Aviation name=Inlet cone caption=Inlet cone of a MiG 21MFInlet cones (sometimes called shock cones) are a component of some supersonic aircraft. They are primarily used on ramjets, such as the turboramjets of the SR 71 or the pure ramjets … Wikipedia
Turbine engine failure — This article is an adaptation of a publication of the United States National Transportation Safety Board which can be found [http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/jet engine problems.pdf here] . As a work of the United States Federal Government, the… … Wikipedia
Tesla turbine — The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centrifugal flow turbine expander patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional … Wikipedia
Steam turbine — A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into rotary motion. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Parsons… … Wikipedia
