JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Gas Turbine Theories: Impulse and reaction balding of gas turbines, Velocity triangles and power output, Elementary theory, Vortex theory. Choice of blade profile, pitch and chord, Estimation of stage performance. Design Consilretions: Limiting factors in gas turbine design, Overall turbine performance. Methods of blade cooling, matching of turbine and compressor, Numerical problems.

UNIT - II

Thrust Control: Thrust Augmentation through after burning, thrust vector control methods. RAMJET Propulsion: Operating principle Subcritical, critical and supercritical operation. Combustion in ramjet engine, Ramjet performance, Sample ramjet design calculations. Introduction to SCRAMJET, Preliminary concepts in supersonic combustion, Integral ram, Rocket, Numerical problems.

UNIT - III

Chemical Rockets: Solid Propellant: Solid propellant rockets, Selection criteria of solid propellants, important hardware components of solid rockets, Propellant grain design considerations. Liquid Propellant: Liquid propellant rockets, cooling in liquid rockets. Limitations of hybrid rockets, Relative advantages of liquid rockets over solid rockets.

UNIT - IV

Fundamentals of Rocket Propulsion: Operating principle, Specific impulse of a rocket, internal ballistics, Rocket nozzle classifications. Rocket performance considerations, Numerical problems.

UNIT - V

Advanced Propulsion Techniques: Electric rocket propulsion, Ion propulsion techniques, nuclear rocket - Types, Solar sail, and Preliminary concepts in nozzle less propulsion.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Sutton G. P. (2010), Rocket Propulsion Elements, 8th edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc, USA.
• 2. Philipa Hill, Carl Peterson (2010), Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion, 2nd edition, Addison Wesley Longman Inc, USA.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Oates G. C (1986), Aero Thermodyanamics of Aircraft Engine Components, AIAA Educational Series, USA. R16 B.TECH AERONAUTICAL ENGG.
• 2. Rolls- Royce (2005), Jet Engine, 6th edition, Rolls - Royce Ltd, USA.
• 3. Ganesan V (2010), Gas Turbines, Tata McGraw- Hill, New Delhi.
• 4. S. M. Yahya(2010), Fundamentals of Compressible Flow with Aircraft and Rocket propulsion, 4th Edition, New Age International Publications, New Delhi. R16 B.TECH AERONAUTICAL ENGG.