Nikola Tesla was a great scientist so that to truly appreciate the magnitude of his discoveries humanity has yet to be.Most of his inventions, which to this day is legendary, for the possibility of the transmission of electric energy at a distance.However, among the patents, but there are many more thousands who got this outstanding theoretician and experimenter practitioner, there are other relating exclusively to the mechanical components of machines.One describes the working principle of an unusual design, converts the energy of the gas stream into a rotary motion.Tesla Turbine - is the name of the mechanism.
Every invention must be unique, it is the current rules of registration of a patent, so they were in 1913, when the great scientist was another inventor's certificate.The originality of the invention lies in the absence Tesla vanes, which rotor is provided with virtually any turbine.Transfer of kinetic energy of the flow of air or any other gas, is carried out not by direct pressure supplied by the vane angles thereto, and the movement of the boundary of the fluid flow environment absolutely flat discs.Tesla Turbine uses the properties of gases, their viscosity.
All inventions of this extraordinary man is very beautiful.Tesla Turbine - is no exception.Her beauty in simplicity, not in primitive, namely, to the refined brevity that has become a genius handwriting.No one before and did not occur to spin the disk gas flow directed in the same plane with him.
course, to increase the efficiency of the entire device should increase the number of drives and to minimize the distance between them, so the turbine Tesla is a rotor mounted on the drive shaft, consisting of a plurality of flat "plates", and the stator - a space in which revolvesthis shaft with nozzles directed tangentially, i.e. perpendicular to the radius of the rotor disks.This design is a great advantage in the case if it is necessary to change the direction of rotation.To do this, simply switch the inlet on the nozzle, which was previously the weekends, and the entire turbine starts to rotate in a reverse direction.
Another advantage - the motion of the gas, it is laminar, that is, it does not arise vortex flows on the overcoming of which is consumed useful energy, and which so persistently struggling designers turbines.In general, at a time when Tesla invented a turbine, the engineers had a lot of problems with the materials for the manufacture of blades, so he figured out how to do without them altogether.
Have design and its shortcomings.These include the low gas flow rate at which efficient Tesla turbine.However, this does not detract from the significance of this invention, which may suddenly need to become indispensable simply solving technical problems, as has happened with other patents Tesla.
Simplicity of design - the obvious quality, which has a Tesla turbine.His hands make it possible, however, for it will still take considerable expertise and high precision performance of all works.After Qualitet discs and a small gap between them, which must be very uniform, and the nozzle housing using simple tools perform virtually impossible.
