Tesla turbomachinery

Handbook of Turbomachinery, Second Edition: Revised and Expanded

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 861-874

  Rice, Warren ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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