Considers a broad reange of fundamental factors and conditions influencing the optimum design and operation of machinery. Emphasizes the force and and motion analysis of machine components in multiple applications. Serves as an essential guidebook for machinery design and development-with practical methods, approaches, and solutions to machinery dynamics.

"This entirely updated and enlarged Second Edition broadens the scope of the previous edition while maintaining its concise, easy-to-read style in presenting the basic principles of turbomachine theory and its application to specific devices -- providing immediately useful step-by-step procedures that show how the essentials of turbomachinery are applied in design and to predict performance. "

Examining practical, hands-on applications in large-scale industrial settings, this work covers the principles of the science of thermodynamics. It presents applications for power plants, refrigeration and air conditioning systens, and turbomachinery. Solutions manual available.