Gas Turbines
Gas Turbines
Gas Turbines
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
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devices and industrial gas turbines.
Design the blading and evaluate the performance of centrifugal and axial flow
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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
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turbine.
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