Elements of Propulsion: Gas Turbines and Rockets

Author:Jack D. Mattingly

AIAA Education Series
2006, 869 pages, Mixed media
ISBN: 1-56347-779-3
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DESCRIPTION: This text provides a complete introduction to gas turbine and rocket propulsion for aerospace and mechanical engineers. Building on the very successful Elements of Gas Turbine Propulsion, textbook coverage has been expanded to include rocket propulsion and the material on gas dynamics has been dramatically improved. The text is divided into four parts: basic concepts and gas dynamics; analysis of rocket propulsion systems; parametric (design point) and performance (off-design) analysis of air breathing propulsion systems; and analysis and design of major gas turbine engine components (fans, compressors, turbines, inlets, nozzles, main burners, and afterburners).

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• Design concepts introduced early (aircraft performance in introductory chapter) and integrated throughout; includes six extensive design projects: two multi-chapter for the design of gas turbine engine cycles and four for the axial-flow turbomachinery.
• Extensive student input on the design of the book means the book builds upon definitions and gradually develops the thermodynamics, gas dynamics, and gas turbine engine principles. Also contains over 100 worked examples and more than 260 homework problems so concepts are applied after they are introduced.
• Eight user-friendly, computer programs for IBM compatible computers accompanies the text which allows for rapid calculation of trends, "what if" questions, conceptual design, homework problems, and homework verification.
• Fifty-page foreword by Hans von Ohain (German inventor of the jet engine) covers past, present, and future of jet propulsion.