The majority of the world’s electricity is produced by steam turbines ... to blade design that makes sense of the complex, interconnected forces and dynamics in these turbines 1.

In a steam turbine, high-enthalpy (high pressure and temperature) steam is expanded in the nozzles (stationary blades) where the kinetic energy is increased at the expense of pressure energy (increase ...

There are two basic types of steam ... gas turbines, the combustor adds energy to the gas stream. There, air is mixed with fuel and ignited. Combustion increases the temperature, velocity and volume ...

Steam turbines have helped drive a large chunk of our technological development over the last century or so, and they’ll always make for interesting DIY. [Hyperspace Pirate] built a small ...