Fundamentals of Propulsion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-6

3. Basics of Compressible One-Dimensional Flows

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   Pages 7-23

4. Basics of Turbomachinery

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   Pages 25-42

5. Basics of Combustion Thermodynamics

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   Pages 43-59

6. The Turbojet Engine

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   Pages 61-81

7. The Turbofan Engine

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   Pages 83-94

8. Thrust Calculations

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   Pages 95-133

9. Ramjet and Scramjet Engine

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   Pages 135-153

10. Back Matter

    Pages 155-159

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This highly informative book offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of propulsion. The book focuses on foundational topics in propulsion, namely gas dynamics, turbomachinery, and combustion to more complex subjects such as practical design aspects of aircraft engines and thermodynamic aspects and analysis. It also includes pedagogical aspects such as end-of-chapter problems and worked examples to augment learning and self-testing. This book is a useful reference for students in the area of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Also, scientists and engineers working in the areas of aerospace propulsion and gas dynamics find this book a valuable addition.

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• Compressible One Dimensional Flows
• Turbomachinery
• Combustion Thermodynamics
• Turbojet Engine
• Ramjet and Scramjet Engine

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

  V. Babu

Dr. V. Babu is currently Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai. He received his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from REC Trichy in 1985 and Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1991. He worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Ohio State University from 1991 to 1995. He was a Technical Specialist at the Ford Scientific Research Lab, Michigan from 1995 to 1998. He received the Henry Ford Technology Award in 1998 for the development and deployment of a virtual wind tunnel. He has four U.S. patents to his credit. He has published technical papers on simulations of fluid flows including plasmas and non-equilibrium flows, computational aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, scientific computing and ramjet, scramjet engines. His primary research specialization is CFD and he is currently involved in the simulation of high speed reacting flows, prediction of jet noise, simulation of fluid flows using the lattice Boltzmann method and high performance computing.

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