Aircraft Engines

The module introduces basic engineering and physical understanding of the requirements, components and preliminary design of simple aircraft jet engines. After successful completion of the course, the students have knowledge of the thermodynamic changes of state taking place in the individual components of aircraft jet engines and are able to apply this knowledge to the calculation of the engine efficiency, the optimisation of the thermodynamic cycle and also stage theory and straight cascades. Furthermore, the students gain insight into phenomena such as rotating stall, surging, and engine aeroacoustics as well as the dynamic behaviour of jet engines and their control systems. Moreover, the students are able to determine and evaluate the losses, dimensionless quantities, and characteristic maps of aircraft jet engines and their individual components.

Recommended for 8th Semester

Content

  • Meaning of the drive for flight task, hover, types of propulsion, jet propulsion, propeller drive
  • Theoretical basics, basic physical laws, thrust, power and efficiency, mission of a commercial aircraft, schematic structure of simple jet engines, cycle
  • Changes in state of inlet, compressor, combustion chamber, turbine and nozzle
  • Efficiency, optimization of the cycle, definition of the design point, design and layout of jet engine components, compression shocks, stage theory and straight blade lattice, losses, similarity measures, compressor and turbine cooperation
  • Maps, rotating separation, pumps, acceleration behavior, engine control, engine start, engine arrangement on the aircraft, engine noise and acoustic damping
  • Jet engine with afterburning, twin-engine, wave engine, ramjet engine, rocket engines
  • Heat transfer and cooling, development trials for turbines, test benches and measurement technology, computer-aided design and optimization, flow control and loss minimization, pollutants, combustion chamber vibrations.

Recommended Previous Knowledg

  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Turbomachinery
  • Thermodynamics

Recommended Literature

  • Bräunling: Flugzeugtriebwerke: Grundlagen, Aero-Thermodynamik, ideale und reale Kreisprozesse, thermische Turbomaschinen, Komponenten, Emissionen und Systeme. 3. Aufl., Berlin [u.a.] : Springer, 2009

Type of Examination

  • Written exam

COURSE ENROLLMENT AND MATERIALS

Further information about this module can be found via the Online Course Catalogue and Stud.IP. In addition, you must also register your attendance at this course via Stud.IP.


Lecturer

Dr.-Ing. Florian Herbst
Lecturing Staff

Tutor

Suchla - Foto Suchla - Foto
Dominik Suchla, M.Sc.
Research Staff
Address
An der Universität 1
30823 Garbsen
Building
Room
210
Suchla - Foto Suchla - Foto
Dominik Suchla, M.Sc.
Research Staff
Address
An der Universität 1
30823 Garbsen
Building
Room
210
Pascal Franke, M.Sc.
Research Staff
Address
An der Universität 1
30823 Garbsen
Building
Room
212
Pascal Franke, M.Sc.
Research Staff
Address
An der Universität 1
30823 Garbsen
Building
Room
212