Jet Propulsion & Air-Craft Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Jet Propulsion & Air-Craft Engineering (subject code 2712110) as prescribed for M(E · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 33 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2712110)Unit 1 Fundamental of Gas Dynamics
- Study of Wave motion
- stagnation condition and parameters
- Mach Number and its influence
- Isentropic Flow
- Rayleigh and Fanno Flow
Unit 2 Principles of Jet Propulsion
- Fundamentals of aircraft propulsion
- aircraft matching
- various efficiencies
- rockets and air breathing jet engines
- pulse jet & ramjet engine and their performance characteristics
Unit 3 Solid & Liquid Propulsion System
- The concept of Solid & Liquid propellants
- homogeneous and heterogeneous propellants
- composite propellant oxidizers and binders
- effect of binder on propellant properties
- burning rate and burning rate laws
- factors influencing the burning rate
- methods of determining burning rates
- liquid propellants
- cryogenic and storage propellants
- physical and chemical characteristics of liquid propellant
Unit 4 Solid & Liquid Propulsion Engines
- Solid propellant rocket engine
- internal ballistics
- equilibrium motor operation and equilibrium pressure to various parameters
- rocket motor hardware design
- heat transfer considerations in solid rocket motor design
- Liquid propellant rocket engine
- system layout
- pump and pressure feed systems
- feed system components
- design of combustion chamber
- characteristic length
- constructional features, and chamber wall stresses
- heat transfer and cooling aspects