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Frank Kushner

Frank Kushner is an independent Consulting Engineer specializing in dynamics and acoustics testing and analysis. He has had 42 years of experience with industrial turbomachinery, mostly with the Elliott Company, and four years previous experience with the jet engine combustion section development group at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. Mr. Kushner holds patents for a blade damping mechanism and a method to prevent a one-cell rotating stall in centrifugal compressors.

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Compressors
Better design for less noise in compressors

This article applies to centrifugal and axial compressors. Reciprocating, screw, and scroll compressors and ejectors have different considerations. For “dynamic” radial or axial gas compressors the predominant noise ...
On October 6, 2014 / By Frank Kushner
Steam Turbines
Review of long steam turbine blade packet resonance

Interference Diagrams” also termed by some as “Safe Diagrams” are utilized for fully-coupled rotating blades. In Reference No. 1 resonance where harmonic of speed is equal to nodal ...
On May 19, 2014 / By Frank Kushner

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Better design for less noise in compressors

Review of long steam turbine blade packet resonance

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