Background
Wilson, David Gordon was born on February 11, 1928 in Sutton Coldfield, Warwick., England. Son of William and Florence Ida (Boulton) Wilson.
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Regenerative gas turbines are attractive alternatives to diesel engines and spark ignition engines for automobiles and to diesel engines and combined-cycle en gines for power generation. Theory indicates regenerative gas turbines should achieve higher thermal efficiencies than those of diesel engines and combined cycle engines. Further, regenerative gas turbines are potentially lower in cost, require less maintenance, require less space, and pollute less than competitive systems. Regenerators can be used for exhaust-gas heat exchange or for intercooling in gas-turbine systems. As an exhaust-gas heat exchanger, a regenerator recovers heat from the exhaust and uses it to preheat the compressed air before the compressed air enters the combustor. Preheating of the compressed air permits a small heat input to the combustor for a given power output of the engine. As an intercooler, a regenerator cools the gas between compressor stages. Less work is required to compress cool gas than is required to compress warm gas. Therefore, a regenerator intercooler can reduce the required work input to the compressor. Thus, regenerators can be used to increase the thermal efficiencies and power outputs of gas turbines. the backbones of high-performance re High-performance regenerators are generative gas turbines. In the past, lack of understanding of regenerator per formance has led to sub-optimal engine designs. Now this book gives com prehensive regenerator information. With this book, the designer can design regenerators that will yield gas turbines with maximum thermal efficiencies.
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The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it uses human muscles in a near-optimum way. This new edition of the bible of bicycle builders and bicyclists provides just about everything you could want to know about the history of bicycles, how human beings propel them, what makes them go faster, and what keeps them from going even faster. The scientific and engineering information is of interest not only to designers and builders of bicycles and other human-powered vehicles but also to competitive cyclists, bicycle commuters, and recreational cyclists. The third edition begins with a brief history of bicycles and bicycling that demolishes many widespread myths. This edition includes information on recent experiments and achievements in human-powered transportation, including the "ultimate human- powered vehicle," in which a supine rider in a streamlined enclosure steers by looking at a television screen connected to a small camera in the nose, reaching speeds of around 80 miles per hour. It contains completely new chapters on aerodynamics, unusual human-powered machines for use on land and in water and air, human physiology, and the future of bicycling. This edition also provides updated information on rolling drag, transmission of power from rider to wheels, braking, heat management, steering and stability, power and speed, and materials. It contains many new illustrations.
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This comprehensive textbook is unique in its design-focused approach to turbomachinery and gas turbines. It offers students and practicing engineers methods for configuring these machines to perform with the highest possible efficiency. Examples and problems are based on the actual design of turbomachinery and turbines. After an introductory chapter that outlines the goals of the book and provides definitions of terms and parts, the book offers a brief review of the basic principles of thermodynamics and efficiency definitions. The rest of the book is devoted to the analysis and design of real turbomachinery configurations and gas turbines, based on a consistent application of thermodynamic theory and a more empirical treatment of fluid dynamics that relies on the extensive use of design charts. Topics include turbine power cycles, diffusion and diffusers, the analysis and design of three-dimensional free-stream flow, and combustion systems and combustion calculations. The second edition updates every chapter, adding material on subjects that include flow correlations, energy transfer in turbomachines, and three-dimensional design. A solutions manual is available for instructors. This new MIT Press edition makes a popular text available again, with corrections and some updates, to a wide audience of students, professors, and professionals.
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Mechanical engineering educator
Wilson, David Gordon was born on February 11, 1928 in Sutton Coldfield, Warwick., England. Son of William and Florence Ida (Boulton) Wilson.
Postgraduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, 1957. Bachelor of Science with honors, University Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University Nottingham, United Kingdom, 1953.
Brush fellow, research assistant Nottingham University, 1950-1953. Ship's 7th engineer officer Donaldson Line, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1953. Engineer Brush Electrical Engineering Limited company, United Kingdom, 1953-1955.
Senior gas-turbine designer Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, United Kingdom, 1957-1958. Senior lecturer, mechanical engineering University Ibadan, Zaria, Nigeria, 1958-1960. Vice president, technical director Northern Research and Engineering Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, also United Kingdom, 1960-1966.
Associate professor mechanical engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966-1971, professor, 1971-1994. Professor emeritus, since 1994. Co-founder, chief science officer, president Wilson TurboPower, Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts, 2001—2009.
Visiting engineer, Boeing Airplane Company, 1956-1957. Visiting fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, 1955-1956. Consultant, lecturer in field.
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Married Anne Ware Sears, July 18, 1963 (divorced May 1988). Children: John Bachelor of Medicine, Erica Sears. Married Ellen Cecilia Warner, December 30, 1988.
1 child, Susan Speck.