AE4803: Course Overview
Catalog Description
Analysis and design of compressors, turbines and combustors for aircraft propulsion; compressor-turbine matching and off-design engine performance. Introduction to advanced propulsion architectures including scramjets, pressure gain combustion, and electric/hybrid-electric.

Course Objectives

  1. Familiarize students with the preliminary design and analysis of turbomachinery components (multi-stage compressors and turbines ) found in modern aircraft engines.
  2. Explore the concept and procedures for compressor-turbine (gas generator) matching and off-design engine performance for simple propulsion cycles.
  3. Introduce students to the basic analysis and preliminary design of the aerodynamics and liner cooling for main combustors found in aircraft jet engines.
  4. Introduce students to advanced propulsion architectures for hypersonic aircraft, and for enhanced cycle efficiency or reduced fuel-consumption in subsonic or transonic aircraft.

Learning Outcomes
A student successfully completing this course will be able to:

  1. Provide preliminary design parameters for compressors and turbines and characterize their performance based on a mean (pitch) line approach.
  2. Evaluate the operation and performance of a jet engine based on compressor and turbine maps for different operating conditions.
  3. Provide preliminary design parameters and define key design issues and constraints for main combustors in jet engines.
  4. Describe the advantages, drawbacks and challenges of various advanced propulsion architectures.
Prerequisites
AE 4451. Specific areas/concepts include:
  1. Jet engine (thermodynamic) cycle analysis.
  2. Aircraft engine performance parameters.
  3. Basic operation of aircraft engine components.
Textbooks

The following suggested texts may be useful:

  • Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion, 2nd Edition, Philip Hill and Carl Peterson, Addison-Wesley, 1992.
  • Aircraft Propulsion, S. Farokhi, Wiley, 2009.
  • Gas Turbine Combustion, A. Lefebvre, 2nd ed., Taylor and Francis, 1999 or 3rd ed., A. Lefebvre and D. Ballal, CRC Press, 2010.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery, 6th ed.,S. L. Dixon and C. A. Hall, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010.
  • Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion, 3rd ed., Gordon Oates, AIAA Education Series, 1997.
  • Elements of Gas Turbine Propulsion, J. D. Mattingly, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
  • Aircraft Engine Design, J. D. Mattingly, W. H. Heiser and D. H. Daley, AIAA Education Series, 1987.
  • Aerothermodynamics of Aircraft Engine Components, Gordon Oates, ed., AIAA Education Series, 1985.