This course on Aerospace Propulsion aims to introduce students to the historical development of flights, early aircraft propulsive devices, and jet propulsion for aircraft. The course covers topics such as thermodynamics, specific heats, work and heat transfers, laws of thermodynamics, entropy, and thermodynamic cycles. Students will learn about gas and vapor power cycles, compressible flows, shocks, and more. The teaching method includes lectures and tutorials. This course is intended for individuals interested in aerospace engineering, propulsion systems, and thermodynamics.
Overview
Syllabus
Mod-01 Lec-01 Course Intro & Historical development of flights.
Mod-01 Lec-02 Early development of aircraft propulsive devices.
Mod-01 Lec-03 Development of Jet propulsion for aircraft.
Mod-01 Lec-04 Introduction to thermodynamics.
Mod-01 Lec-05 Quasi-static processes, zeroth law of thermodynamics.
Mod-01 Lec-06 Specific heats at constant pressure and volume Work and heat transfers.
Mod-01 Lec-07 Tutorial.
Mod-01 Lec-08 First law of thermodynamics for closed systems.
Mod-01 Lec-09 First law of thermodynamics for open systems/flow processes.
Mod-01 Lec-10 Second law of thermodynamics, heat engines.
Mod-01 Lec-11 Reversible and irreversible processes, concept of entropy.
Mod-01 Lec-12 Increase of entropy principle.
Mod-01 Lec-13 Tutorial.
Mod-01 Lec-14 Carnot cycle, Carnot principle, thermodynamic temperature scale.
Mod-01 Lec-15 Exergy, availability and second law efficiency.
Mod-01 Lec-16 Tutorial.
Mod-01 Lec-17 Gas and vapour power cycles, Otto cycle, Diesel cycle, Dual cycle.
Mod-01 Lec-18 Rankine cycle, Brayton cycle, Stirling and Ericsson cycles.
Mod-01 Lec-19 Thermodynamic property relations, Jacobean.
Mod-01 Lec-20 Tutorial.
Mod-01 Lec-21 Properties of gas and vapour mixtures.
Mod-01 Lec-22(A) One-dimensional compressible flows, isentropic flows.
Mod-01 Lec-22(B) Flows with friction and heat transfer, normal and oblique shocks.
Taught by
aerospace engineering
