and then the gas turbine as smooth but much more inefficient. The free piston engine, a design with opposed pistons working against compressed air springs and combining both compression and firing ...

Technical difficulties were never fully overcome, the increasing cost of fuel made gas turbine cars uneconomic to run, and meanwhile by the 1960s the piston engine had improved immeasurably over ...

The aerospace industry relies on advanced diagnostic methods to ensure the safety and efficiency of gas turbine ... faults in compressors and turbines of a mixed-flow turbofan engine.

Laser shock peening, or more simply laser peening, is an effective method of increasing the resistance of gas turbine engine compressor and fan blades in aircraft to foreign object damage and ...

The high-pressure turbine drives the high-pressure compressor, while the low-pressure ... The Russian T-80BWM is powered by a gas turbine engine, enabling it to handle muddy and post-snow ...

With its help, for the first time in the engine industry, mathematical modeling of self-oscillation of compressor blades of gas turbine engines was carried out. The project became a finalist for the ...