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Introduction to Airbreathing Propulsion

By Prof. Ashoke De   |   IIT Kanpur
Learners enrolled: 1434
Due to the rapid advance in air transportation as well as military and intelligence missions, aircraft and rocket propulsion has become an essential part of engineering education. Propulsion is the combined aero-thermal science for aircrafts and rockets. Propulsion has both macro and microscales. Macroscale handles the performance and operation of aircrafts and rockets during different missions, while microscale is concerned with component design including both rotary modules (i.e., compressor, fan, pump, and turbine) and stationary modules (i.e., intake, combustor, afterburner, and nozzle). The fundamental knowledge of propulsion is expected to improve the design of the industrial propulsive systems by enhancing the stability, improving the efficiency, and reduction in pollutant formation. In this course, an integrated understanding of theory and practice of propulsion would be covered. The discussion would continue on the design, operation, installation and several inspections, repair, and maintenance aspects of aircraft and rocket engines.

INTENDED AUDIENCE
Junior/Senior undergraduate students and postgraduate students of Aerospace, and Mechanical Engineering
PREREQUISITES : Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Basic Compressible flows
INDUSTRIES  SUPPORT     : Aerospace, Mechanical, Power Generation and Defense Industries
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Elective
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Flight Mechanics
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 14 Sep 2020
End Date : 04 Dec 2020
Enrollment Ends : 25 Sep 2020
Exam Date : 20 Dec 2020 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Propulsion, Review of basic fluid mechanics and thermodynamics
Week 2: Introduction to compressible flows: 1D steady, isentropic flows, Normal shocks
Week 3:  Introduction to gas turbine engines: Thrust, efficiencies and performance parameters
Week 4: Piston Engines and Propellers
Week 5: Performance/cycle analysis: Pulsejet, Ramjet, and Scramjet Engines
Week 6: Performance/cycle analysis: Turbojet, Turbofan, Turboramjet
Week 7:  Performance/cycle analysis: Turboprop, Turboshaft, and Propfan
Week 8: Combustors & after burners, intakes, nozzles
Week 9: Industrial Gas Turbines, Introduction to turbo-machinery: basic principles and equations
Week 10:Centrifugal compressor: Principle, performance characteristics, efficiency, stall and surge
Week 11: Axial compressor: Theory, single stage and multi-stage compressor, cascades and losses
Week 12:Axial turbines: Theory of operation, stage and overall performances, turbine and compressor matching, turbine blade cooling; Radial Flow Turbine, Module Matching

Books and references

1. Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion- Hill & Peterson
2. Gas Turbine Theory – Cohen, Rogers, Saravanamuttoo
3. Modern compressible Flow – Anderson
4. Aircraft Propulsion- Saeed Farokhi
5. Thermodynamics – Cengel & Boles
6. Rocket Propulsion Elements - Sutton and Ross/Biblarz

Instructor bio

Prof. Ashoke De

IIT Kanpur
Dr. Ashoke De is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He leads large scale initiatives in the modeling of turbulent reacting and non-reacting flows at IIT Kanpur. So far, he has authored more than 130 peer reviewed articles in journals and conferences. His primary research focus is the emerging field of computational mechanics with particular interest in combustion and turbulent flows.

Course certificate

•The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
• The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 20 December 2020, Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm. 
• Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
• The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
• Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE:
• Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course. 
• Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
• Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. 
• If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.
• Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
• Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.


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