The Design, Construction and Investigation of a Tesla Turbine,
Masters Thesis by
Audley B. Leaman. Tested with air. Lots of detail on design
and construction including nozzle and exhaust dimensions; simple math. Its
nuts-and-bolts approach makes this thesis more accessible than the others.
Unique design eliminates holes in discs, making the whole disc area a
working surface.
Item #20-95
Tesla Turbine Theory (2nd edition),
Transcript of
20-minute interview with Jerry LaBine, assembly drawings from patent
files, articles from technical journals 1913-1975, Gurth’s Discflo pumps,
Bibliography of theses and dissertations on the Tesla turbine.
Item #17-00
Performance Characteristics of a Friction Disc Turbine,
Ph.D. Thesis by Elroy
William Beans. Air was used in the testing. Also tested was a
disc-type fan, with encouraging results. Starts with a good
technical, yet understandable, description of how and why the Tesla
turbine works, and ascends into higher math and fluid dynamics. Lots
of good information.
An
Investigation of Multiple-disk Turbine Performance Parameters,
Masters Thesis by
Michael John Lawn Jr. This Tesla turbine was tested with liquid
sodium, liquid hydrogen, and glycerine as working fluids.
