Rotor vs Rotodynamic - What's the difference?
rotor | rotodynamic |
A rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump.
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(of a pump) In which energy is continuously imparted to the pumped fluid by means of a rotating impeller, propeller, or rotor (unlike a positive displacement pump, in which a fluid is moved by trapping a fixed amount of fluid and forcing the trapped volume into the pump's discharge).
As a noun rotor
is a rotating part of a mechanical device, for example in an electric motor, generator, alternator or pump.As an adjective rotodynamic is
in which energy is continuously imparted to the pumped fluid by means of a rotating impeller, propeller, or rotor (unlike a positive displacement pump, in which a fluid is moved by trapping a fixed amount of fluid and forcing the trapped volume into the pump's discharge).rotor
English
(wikipedia rotor)Noun
(en noun)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor , which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}