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Gas Turbines

This document provides information about the course "Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion" offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The 3 credit course aims to teach students to analyze ideal and practical gas turbine cycles, design compressors and turbines, and analyze combustion and off-design performance. The syllabus covers topics like gas turbine cycles, compressors, combustion, turbines, and off-design performance. Reference materials include textbooks and online courses on gas turbines, compressors, combustion, and jet propulsion.

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Gas Turbines

This document provides information about the course "Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion" offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The 3 credit course aims to teach students to analyze ideal and practical gas turbine cycles, design compressors and turbines, and analyze combustion and off-design performance. The syllabus covers topics like gas turbine cycles, compressors, combustion, turbines, and off-design performance. Reference materials include textbooks and online courses on gas turbines, compressors, combustion, and jet propulsion.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Course Credits
Code: GAS TURBINES AND JET PROPULSION 3-0-0: 3
ME5151

Prerequisites: NIL

Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
Analyze the ideal and practical gas turbine cycles of air-breathing propulsion
CO1
devices and industrial gas turbines.
Design the blading and evaluate the performance of centrifugal and axial flow
CO2
compressors.
CO3 Analyze the combustion process in the gas turbine combustion system.
CO4 Design axial and radial in-flow gas turbines.
Analyse the off-design performance and matching of the components of a gas
CO5
turbine.

Course Articulation Matrix:


PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6
CO1 3 2 2 2
CO2 3 3 2 2
CO3 3 3 2 2
CO4 3 2 3 2 2
CO5 3 2 3 3 2

Syllabus:
Introduction: Review of the fundamentals, Classification of turbomachines, Applications of gas
turbines.
Gas Turbine Cycles for Shaft Power: Ideal shaft power cycles and their analysis, Practical
shaft power cycles and their analysis, Combined cycles and cogeneration schemes.
Gas Turbine Cycles for Propulsion: Propulsive devices - Criteria of performance, Gas turbine
cycles for turbojet, turbofan, turboprop and turbo-shaft engines, Thrust augmentation
techniques.
Fundamentals of Rotating Machines: Euler’s energy equation, Components of energy
transfer, Impulse and reaction machines, Degree of reaction, Flow over an airfoil, Lift and drag.
Centrifugal Compressors: Construction and principle of operation, Factors affecting stage
pressure ratio, Compressibility effects, Surging and choking, Performance characteristics.
Flow through Cascades: Cascade of blades, Axial compressor cascades, Lift and drag forces,
Cascade efficiency, Cascade tunnel.
Axial Flow Compressors: Construction and principle of operation, Factors affecting stage
pressure ratio, Degree of reaction, Three dimensional flow, Design process, Blade design,
Stage performance, Compressibility effects, Off-design performance, Axi-radial flow
configurations.
Gas Turbine Combustion System: Operational requirements, Factors affecting combustion

Scheme and Syllabi w.e.f. 2021-22


Department of Mechanical Engineering

chamber design, Combustion process, Flame stabilization, Combustion chamber performance,


Practical problems - Gas turbine emissions.
Axial and Radial Flow Turbines: Construction and operation, Vortex theory, Estimation of
stage performance, Overall turbine performance, Turbine blade cooling, Radial flow turbines.
Off-Design Performance: Off-design performance of single shaft gas turbine, free turbine
engine and jet engine, Methods of displacing the equilibrium running line.
Other Topics: Design of Nozzles, afterburners, anti-icing mechanisms.
Learning Resources:
Text Books:
1. Gas Turbine Theory, Sarvanamuttoo, H.I.H., Rogers, G. F. C. and Cohen, H., Pearson
Prentice Hall, 2017, 7th Edition.
2. Gas Turbines, Ganesan, V., Tata McGraw Hill, 2017, 3rd Edition.
3. Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery, Dixon, S.L, Elsevier, 2014, 7th
Edition.
4. Fundamentals of Jet Propulsion with Applications, Flack, R.D., Cambridge University Press,
2011.
Reference Books:
1. Turbines, Compressors and Fans, Yahya, S. M, Tata McGraw Hill, 2017, 4th Edition.
2. Gas Turbine Combustion – Alternative Fuels and Emissions, Lefebvre, A.H. and Ballal D. R.,
CRC Press, 2010.
Online Resources:
1. Aircraft Propulsion by Prof. Vinayak N. Kulkarni, NPTEL Course (Link:
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/112/103/112103281/)
2. Jet Aircraft Propulsion by Prof. Bhaskar Roy and Prof. A M Pradeep (IIT Bombay),
NPTEL Course (Link: https://nptel.ac.in/courses/101/101/101101002/)

Scheme and Syllabi w.e.f. 2021-22

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