Ronald D. Flack, Jr. is a Professor Emeritus, the former Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and former Director of the Rotating Machinery and Controls (ROMAC) Industrial Research Program at the University of Virginia. He is an ASME Fellow.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Components and their operating characteristics: ideal and non-ideal; 3. Cycle analysis: ideal and non-ideal; 4. Turbomachinery fundamentals; 5. Axial flow compressors and fans; 6. Centrifugal compressors; 7. Axial flow turbines; 8. Diffusers and inlets; 9. Combustors, reheat burners and afterburners; 10. Nozzles; 11. Ducts, mixers, exhausts and stacks; 12. Matching of gas turbine components: Capstone; Appendices.

'The previous edition - one of the best on air-breathing propulsion - is now even better, with content reorganized to be even clearer, while retaining its good balance between underlying thermodynamic and fluid dynamic fundamentals and their application in analyzing components and systems. The result is a very strong introductory text on this subject.' Werner J.A. Dahm, Arizona State University and Former Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force