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Theory and Design of Fluid MachineryGeneral classification: Equations of work transfer for rotodynamic type machinery; operation, performance and similarity laws of rotodynamic type of pump, fan, blower and compressor; cavitation in pump; hydraulic design of centrifugal type pump and blower. Positive displacement type and jet pump type machinery: Impulse type and reaction type hydroturbines; operation, performance, similarity laws, governing, runaway speed; hydraulic design of impulse type and radial flow type hydroturbines. Nagaratnam, S., Fluid Machines and Systems, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co., 1971.

Cherkassky, V.M., Pumps, Fans, Compressors MIR Publishers, 1977.

Matley, J., Fluid Movers: Pumps, Compressors, Fans and Blowers, McGraw Hill Publication, 1979.

Krivchenko, G.I., Hydraulic Machines: Turbines and Pumps, MIR Publishers, 1986.