Course overview
This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to analyse air and non-air breathing propulsion systems, encompassing gas turbines, ramjets, ducted rockets, scramjets, and space propulsion. Through studying combustion reactions, specific fuel consumption, and aerothermodynamics of various components, learners will develop critical thinking and problem-solving abilities to optimise gas turbine component design parameters. By mastering thrust prediction and engine performance, students will gain practical insights into the complexities of propulsion systems. Graduates will emerge equipped to address real-world challenges in gas turbine design within the aerospace industry, contributing significantly to technological advancement.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain working principles of air breathing and non-air breathing propulsion systems such as turbojets, turbofans, ramjets, scramjets and rockets
- Demonstrate skills to analytically and numerically solve problems relating to aerospace propulsion systems
- Demonstrate ability to write and present aerospace propulsion design results and data in a report independently
- Demonstrate ability to write and present aerospace propulsion design results and data in a report in a group
- Explain the parameters that influence the performance of gas turbine engines