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Theory of air-breathing and rocket engines. Propulsion performance parameters and mission requirements. Operation of diffusers, combustors, rockets, and jet engines. Design project.
This course is intended to prepare students to effectively use the principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics in the design and analysis of propulsion devices used in aerospace applications.
14 weeks, two 80 minute lectures per week.
- Introduction
- Review of applicable fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and compressible flow
- One dimensional steady flow of a perfect gas
- Normal and oblique shocks
- Thermodynamics of aircraft jet engines
- Thrust, efficiency, fuel consumption, turbojet, ramjet, turbofan and aerodynamic losses
- Aerodynamics of jet engine components, diffusers, inlets, combustors, thrust nozzles
- Axial flow and centrifugal compressors
- Axial flow turbines
- Rocket performance parameters
- Chemical rockets - Thrust, nozzles, heat transfer, cooling, combustion chambers
- Boundary layer heat transfer
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