Introduction to Aerospace Propulsion

Lecture 1 - Course Intro & Historical development of flights

Lecture 2 - Early development of aircraft propulsive devices

Lecture 3 - Development of Jet propulsion for aircraft

Lecture 4 - Introduction to thermodynamics, Scope and method, Basic concepts: system, surroundings, property, intensive and extensive, state, equilibrium and state postulate, process, path and cycle

Lecture 5 - Quasi-static processes, zeroth law of thermodynamics and temperature, concept of energy and its various forms, internal energy, enthalpy

Lecture 6 - Specific heats at constant pressure and volume Work and heat transfers

Lecture 7 - Tutorial

Lecture 8 - First law of thermodynamics for closed systems

Lecture 9 - First law of thermodynamics for open systems/flow processes

Lecture 10 - Second law of thermodynamics, heat engines, refrigerators and heat pumps, Kelvin-Planck and Clausius statement of second law of thermodynamics

Lecture 11 - Reversible and irreversible processes, concept of entropy

Lecture 12 - Increase of entropy principle, third law of thermodynamics, absolute entropy, perpetual motion machines

Lecture 13 - Tutorial

Lecture 14 - Carnot cycle, Carnot principle, thermodynamic temperature scale

Lecture 15 - Exergy, availability and second law efficiency

Lecture 16 - Tutorial

Lecture 17 - Gas and vapour power cycles, Otto cycle, Diesel cycle, Dual cycle

Lecture 18 - Rankine cycle, Brayton cycle, Stirling and Ericsson cycles

Lecture 19 - Thermodynamic property relations, Jacobean and Legendre transformations, Maxwell’s equations

Lecture 20 - Tutorial

Lecture 21 - Properties of gas and vapour mixtures

Lecture 22 - One-dimensional compressible flows, isentropic flows

Lecture 23 - Flows with friction and heat transfer, normal and oblique shocks

Lecture 24 - Piston-prop engines: Otto cycles; Ideal and Real cycles

Lecture 25 - IC Engines for aircraft application

Lecture 26 - Performance parameters of IC engines

Lecture 27 - Supercharging of aircraft IC engines

Lecture 28 - Tutorial: IC Engines

Lecture 29 - Propeller fundamentals

Lecture 30 - Propeller aerodynamic theories - I

Lecture 31 - Propeller aerodynamic theories - II

Lecture 32 - Tutorial: Propellers

Lecture 33 - Ideal cycles for Jet engines

Lecture 34 - Ideal cycles for variants of jet engines

Lecture 35 - Tutorial

Lecture 36 - Fundamentals of Ramjets and Pulsejets

Lecture 37 - Fundamentals of Rocket engines

Lecture 38 - Fundamentals of Missile engines

Lecture 39 - Various space vehicles and their engines

Lecture 40 - Closure of the lecture series : recap