'Air Breathing Engines' is a course offered in the B. Tech. in Aerospace Engineering program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Unit 1
Review of Cycle Analysis of Air-Breathing Engines – Application of Euler’s Turbo Machinery Equation to Axial and Centrifugal Machines: Velocity Diagrams, Stage Parameters, Three Dimensional Flows in Turbo-Machinery – Components of Axial and Centrifugal Turbines – Performance Maps – Compressor Turbine Matching – Surge Control.
Unit 2
Thermal Limits of Blades and Vanes – Blade Cooling, Film Cooling and Regenerative Cooling – Subsonic, Supersonic and Hypersonic Inlets – Inlet Sizing – Inlet Performance – The Combustion Process: Stability, Length Scaling.
Unit 3
Fuels – Types of Combustors – Combustor Performance – Afterburners – Flame Stabilization – Nozzles, Thrust Vectoring – Nozzle Performance.
- Mattingly. Jack. D, “Elements of Propulsion: Gas Turbines and Rockets,” AIAA Education Series, 2006.
- Flack. R. L, “Fundamentals of Jet Propulsion with Applications,” Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Hill and Peterson, “Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion,” Dorling Kindersely (India), 2010.
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