UNIQUE SERIES AKTU Syllabus
BAE061

Aircraft Propulsion-II

L-T-P3-0-0 Credits3 Session2024-25 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech Aeronautical Engineering · Sem 6 (Departmental Elective-III)

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Syllabus

5 units · 42 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1

8 hrs
  • Introduction to Jet Engines Development of Jet Aircraft Propulsion, Turbojet, Turbofan, Turbo-prop & Turbo shaft, various components & working of jet engines, Ramjet and Scramjet engine
  • Cycle Analysis Brayton cycle, Ideal & real cycle analysis of turbojet & ramjet engine, Performance, Thrust equation.
Unit2

Unit 2

9 hrs
  • Basics of Turbo machinery Euler equation for turbo machinery and its significance, velocity triangles for a generalized turbo-machine, degree of reaction in turbo machines, free vortex and forced vortex.
  • Centrifugal compressor Characteristics and applications, various parts and their working, Principle of operation, Analysis of work done and efficiencies, compressibility effects, Design of diffuser, Pressure losses, surging, chocking, and degree of reaction, Comparison between axial compressor & centrifugal compressor.
Unit3

Unit 3

8 hrs

Axial Compressor Characteristics and applications, parts of axial compressor. Principle of operation, two dimensional flow analyses, ideal and real work and efficiency of axial compressor, Analysis of Cascade effect & Losses, Factor effecting stage pressure, Blade design, stage performance estimation & off-design performance, compressibility effects, Degree of reaction, stalling, chocking & surging.

Unit4

Unit 4

8 hrs
  • Axial Turbine Characteristics and applications, Blade (cascade) profile analysis. Analysis of multi-staging axial
  • Turbine, estimation of stage performance, Work done, efficiency & degree of reaction, Turbine Cooling
  • Radial Turbine Characteristics and applications, aerodynamics & thermodynamics, Principle of operations, design of radial blades, Analysis of work done and efficiencies, estimation of stage performance degree of reaction, Stalling& surging, Losses.
Unit5

Unit 5

9 hrs
  • Combustion Chamber Types of combustion systems, requirements, combustion process, mechanism & parameters, Combustion efficiency and intensity, losses, design of combustion chamber, combustion chamber performance, and Fuel injection atomization in simplex and duplex burners.
  • Nozzle Nozzle configurations, under and over expanded nozzles, mass flow through a nozzle. Theory of isentropic C-D nozzles, Types of nozzles, their application in aircrafts & rockets.
Course Outcomes (COs)6 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1K2 engines and advantages and disadvantages, its applications. Understand the jet propulsion is and how thrust is produced the working
  2. CO2K2 of turbofan, turbojet, turboprop and turbo-shaft engines. Apply the concept of the energy transfer in turbo-machines and application
  3. CO3K3 of Euler momentum equation of. Understand the characteristics and applications of different types of
  4. CO4compressor and Principle of operations, design of radial blades, Analysis of work done and efficiencies. Understand the process of combustion, types of combustors and relatedK2
  5. CO5K2 terminologies. Fuel injection atomization in simplex and duplex burners. Apply the concept of the working of nozzles and inlets and their application
  6. CO6K3 in aircrafts & rockets.

Books and Reference

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  2. Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion by Hill and Peterson.
  3. V. Ganesan, Gas Turbines, McGraw Hill Education
  4. H. Cohen and G.F.C Rogers, Saravanamutto, Gas Turbine Theory
  5. J. Mattingly, Elements of Propulsion, Tata McGraw Hill

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 37, 38 of the original AKTU PDF.

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