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Introduction to Aerospace Propulsion NPTEL

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Description: The making of thrust to fly - science and history of propulsion; How the jet engines make thrust : conceptual basis; Jet engine : Turbo-jet, Turbo-fans, Turbo prop, Turbo-shaft.

Resources: OpenCourseware from NPTEL (India), Sheridan College, MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford & many other of the World's finest University's.
Language: English

Professors: Michael Williams

Units: 40

Lesson content
  • 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, Scope and method, Basic concepts.  
  • Mod-01 Lec-05 Quasi-static processes, zeroth law of thermodynamics and temperature  
  • 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, refrigerators and heat pumps  
  • Mod-01 Lec-11 Reversible and irreversible processes, concept of entropy  
  • Mod-01 Lec-12 Tutorial  
  • Mod-01 Lec-13 Increase of entropy principle, third law of thermodynamics, absolute entropy  
  • 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 and Legendre transformations  
  • 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  
  • Mod-01 Lec-23 Piston-prop engines: Otto cycles; Ideal and Real cycles  
  • Mod-01 Lec-24 IC Engines for aircraft application  
  • Mod-01 Lec-25 Performance parameters of IC engines  
  • Mod-01 Lec-26 Supercharging of aircraft IC engines  
  • Mod-01 Lec-27 Tutorial: IC Engines  
  • Mod-01 Lec-28 Propeller fundamentals  
  • Mod-01 Lec-29 Propeller aerodynamic theories --I  
  • Mod-01 Lec-30 Propeller aerodynamic theories -II  
  • Mod-01 Lec-31 Tutorial: Propellers  
  • Mod-01 Lec-32 Ideal cycles for Jet engines  
  • Mod-01 Lec-33 Ideal cycles for variants of jet engines  
  • Mod-01 Lec-34 Tutorial  
  • Mod-01 Lec-35 Fundamentals of Ramjets and Pulsejets  
  • Mod-01 Lec-36 Fundamentals of Rocket engines  
  • Mod-01 Lec-37 Fundamentals of Missile engines  
  • Mod-01 Lec-38 Various space vehicles and their engines  
  • Mod-01 Lec-39 Closure of the lecture series : recap  
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