AE xxx Thermodynamics 2 1 0 6

Prerequisite: NIL

Basic concepts: System boundary, surroundings, state, extensive and
intensive properties, energy interactions, work and heat transfers,
equilibrium, quasi-static and reversible processes, non-equilibrium and
irreversible processes.

Thermodynamic laws: Zeroth law and temperature, first law and internal energy, first
law applied to flow processes, second law, entropy and absolute
temperature, third law and absolute entropy, thermodynamics of
simple compressible systems, energy and exergy.

Applications: Closed and open systems, polytropic processes, cyclic
processes, Carnot cycle; Cycle analysis: Otto cycle, Diesel cycle,
Joule-Brayton cycle; ideal and real cycles, design point analysis.

Special topics: Elements of heat transfer and combustion, isentropic flow, flow with
friction and heat transfer.

Introduction to aerospace power plants: Piston prop, turboprop,
turbojet, turbofan, turbo shaft, ramjet, rockets.

Texts and references:
1. G. F. C. Rogers and Y. R. Mayhew, Engineering thermodynamics: work
and heat transfer, 4th ed., Longman, 1992.
2. P. K. Nag, Engineering thermodynamics, Tata McGraw Hill Co., 1989.
3. H. Cohen,  G. F. C. Rogers and H. I. H. Saravanamuttoo, Gas turbine
theory, 5th Ed., Pearson Education Asia, 2001.
4. R. E. Sonntag, C. Borgnakke and G. J. Van Wylen, Fundamentals of
Thermodynamics, 6th ed., Wiley, 2002.

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AE xxx Propulsion 3 1 0 8

Prerequisite: AE xxx Thermodynamics

Real cycle analysis for jet engines: Off-design points,
engine performance maps, power plant performance with
varying speed and altitude, comparison of real cycle turboprops, turbofans, turbojets and ramjets.

Jet engine components: Intake, fan, compressors,
combustors, turbines, afterburner and nozzle; component performance,
cascade theory,
matching of propeller/fan/compressor with turbine in turboprop, turbofan and turbojet,
single and multi-spool engines, turbine blade cooling mechanisms,
thrust augmentation, variable geometry intakes and nozzles, thrust vector control.

Ramjets and scramjets: Ideal and real cycles, 1-D analysis of intake, isolator,
nozzle and reactive flows in combustor.

Classification of rocket: Chemical, electric, ion and
nuclear powered rockets.

Chemical rockets: Solid and liquid propellant rockets, types of
solid and liquid rocket motor propellants, rocket performance
parameters, flow through nozzle, real nozzles, equilibrium and
frozen flow.

Texts and references:
1. P. G. Hill and C. Peterson, Mechanics and thermodynamics of
propulsion, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1991.
2.  H. Cohen,  G. F. C. Rogers and H. I. H. Saravanamuttoo, Gas turbine
theory, 5th Ed., Pearson Education Asia, 2001.
3. G. P. Sutton, and O. Biblarz, Rocket propulsion elements, 7th Ed.,
Wiley Interscience, 2000.
4. G. C. Oates, Aerothermodynamics of gas turbine and rocket propulsion,
AIAA Education Series, 1997.