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B024571 - AERONAUTICAL PROPULSION SYSTEMS
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Teaching Language
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2016-17
Coorte 2015 - Second Cycle Degree in Energy Engineering
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Industrial Engineering (DIEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
ING-IND/09 - ENERGY SYSTEMS AND POWER GENERATION
Credits
9
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
27/02/2017 ⇒ 09/06/2017
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course program
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
italian
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lecture notes
Teaching Methods
Lectures with the aid of notes provided by the teacher.
Further information
Visit the official website, access is restricted, ask information to the teacher: http://arnone.de.unifi.it/tgroup/academics
Type of Assessment
Oral examination.
Course program
Aircraft short history
Aerodynamics of the airplane
ROCKETS PROPULSION:
- Chemical rockets with liquid and solid propellant
- Thrust chambers
- Introduction to electrical rockets
- Introduction to space missions, orbits
INTAKES:
- Basic requirements and performance parameters definition.
- Subsonic intakes.
- Supersonic intakes, normal shocks, oblique shocks, external, mixed, and internal compression.
Nozzles for aeronautical propulsion
Aircraft propellers
Evolution of aircraft piston engines
Helicopter aerodynamics
Vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts
Parametric cycle analysis of ideal engines
Aeroengine starting
Ice, Fire & Bird-Strike Protection
Flight missions, Instrumentation & Failures
Aerodynamics of the airplane
ROCKETS PROPULSION:
- Chemical rockets with liquid and solid propellant
- Thrust chambers
- Introduction to electrical rockets
- Introduction to space missions, orbits
INTAKES:
- Basic requirements and performance parameters definition.
- Subsonic intakes.
- Supersonic intakes, normal shocks, oblique shocks, external, mixed, and internal compression.
Nozzles for aeronautical propulsion
Aircraft propellers
Evolution of aircraft piston engines
Helicopter aerodynamics
Vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts
Parametric cycle analysis of ideal engines
Aeroengine starting
Ice, Fire & Bird-Strike Protection
Flight missions, Instrumentation & Failures