Aurel Stodola

Aurel Stodola
Born(1859-05-10)10 May 1859
Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš, Kingdom of Hungary
(today: Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia)
Died25 December 1942(1942-12-25) (aged 83)
Zürich, Switzerland
Resting placeLiptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
EducationBudapest University of Technology and Economics
Known forCentrifugal compressor
Steam turbine
Stodola's cone law
Stodola's equation
Gouy–Stodola theorem
Awards

Aurel Boleslav Stodola (11 May 1859 – 25 December 1942) was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor. He was a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications and published his book Die Dampfturbine (the steam turbine) in 1903. In addition to the thermodynamic issues involved in turbine design the book discussed aspects of fluid flow, vibration, stress analysis of plates, shells and rotating discs and stress concentrations at holes and fillets.[1] Stodola was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute (now ETH) in Zurich. He maintained friendly contact with Albert Einstein.[2][3] In 1892, Stodola founded the Laboratory for Energy Conversion.

  1. ^ Rao, S. (1995). Mechanical Vibrations (3rd ed.). Wokingham, England: Addison-Wesley.
  2. ^ "Osobnosti Pýcha inžinierstva celého sveta Aurel Stodola: Moje city nikdy neochabli pre môj národ" (in Slovak). civil.gov.sk. Archived from the original on 15 September 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
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