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This course presents aerospace propulsive devices as systems, with functional requirements and engineering and environmental limitations along with requirements and limitations that constrain design choices
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Description
Both air-breathing and rocket engines are covered, at a level which enables rational integration of the propulsive system into an overall vehicle design. Mission analysis, fundamental performance relations, and exemplary design solutions are presented.
Course content
- Rocket equation; gravity loss; optimum acceleration Unlimited
- Rocket staging; range of aircraft; climb & acceleration Unlimited
- Orbital mechanics; single force center Unlimited
- Hyperbolic orbits; interplanetary transfer Unlimited
- Non-chemical rockets; optimum exhaust velocity Unlimited
- Modeling of thermal rocket engines; nozzle flow; control of mass flow Unlimited
- Modeling of rocket nozzles; effects of nozzle area ratio Unlimited
- Types of nozzles; connection of flow to nozzle shape Unlimited
- Solid propellant gas generators; stability; grain designs Unlimited
- Models for rocket engines; flow of reacting gases Unlimited
- Reacting gases (cont.); temperature dependence of specific heats Unlimited
- Nozzle flow of reacting gases Unlimited
- Rocket casing design; structural modeling Unlimited
- Heat transfer and cooling Unlimited
- Ablative cooling Unlimited
- Thrust vectoring; engine cycles; mass estimates Unlimited
- Aircraft propulsion, configuration and components Unlimited
- Aircraft engine modeling; turbojet engine Unlimited
- Turbojet engines (cont.); design parameters; effect of mass flow on thrust. Unlimited
- Introduction to component matching and off-design operation Unlimited
- Turbofan engines Unlimited
- Inlets or diffusers Unlimited
- Exhaust nozzles Unlimited
- Compressors and fans Unlimited
- Velocity triangles; compressor performance maps Unlimited
- Compressor blading; design; multi-staging Unlimited
- Turbines; stage characteristics; degree of reaction Unlimited
- Turbine solidity; mass flow limits; blade temperature Unlimited
- Turbine cooling; general trends and systems; internal cooling Unlimited
- Film cooling; thermal stresses; impingement cooling; how to do cooling design Unlimited
- Compressor-turbine matching; gas generators Unlimited
- Engine structures; centrifugal stresses; engine arrangements Unlimited
- Critical speeds and vibration Unlimited
- Combustors; afterburners Unlimited
- Pollutant; motivations for control; formation; strategies for reduction Unlimited
- Aircraft engine noise: principles; regulations Unlimited
- Jet noise, turbomachinery noise Unlimited
- Rotordynamics of the jet engine Unlimited
Instructor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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