ECAM LaSalle Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Programme
General Data
Academic program ECAM LaSalle Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Programme Module Manager(s) :
AHMAD Hafiz Muhammad,BEN HAJ SLAMA Rafika
EC Type : Lectures Compressible Flows and Propulsion Systems (LIIEEng07ECompFlowPropSyst)
Tutorials : 12h00
Lectures : 12h00
Individual work : 36h00
Total duration: 70h00
Status
Period
Semester 7
Teaching language :
English
Learning Outcomes
1. Understanding the phenomenon of compressible flow and shock waves.
2. Analyze and evaluate the isentropic model for nozzle design (convergent and convergent-divergent nozzles).
3. Able to perform thermodynamic analysis to evaluate the performance parameters of air-breathing and rocket propulsion systems.
4. Explain and compare jet propulsion-related technologies applied to various types of vehicles.
Content
This course aims to understand
• Jet propulsion systems and their performance criteria applied to Air-Breathing and Rocket engines: Thrust; Specific Impulse; Propulsion efficiency; Tsiolkovsky rocket equation; Breguet aircraft equation.
• Fundamental of Compressible flows: Mach number and thermodynamics of compressible flows; Shockwaves; Conservation laws; application to Isentropic flows.
• Rocket engine design: Stagnation and critical states; operating mode of nozzles in rocket engines; influence of combustion pressure and temperature and of nozzle geometry on the thrust finally produced. Calculation of the resulting specific impulse.
• Propulsion systems combustion processes: influence of fuel composition and of Air-Fuel Ratio on the performance of air-breathing combustion processes; use of liquid and solid propellants in rocket engine combustion processes.
• Air-breathing propulsion turbomachines: Thermodynamic cycles used in turbojet or turbofans engines; influence of pressure ratios, air and fuel mass flow rates, blades geometries on the engine performances (specific impulse, propulsion efficiency and specific fuel consumption).
Corequis
IBENG-1-MATHS-S1, IBENG-1-MATHS-S2, IBENG-2-MATHS-S3 / IBENG-2-FLUID-S3, IBENG-2-FLUID-S4, IBENG-1-THERM-S2
Bibliographie
• J. D. Anderson Jr., Modern Compressible Flow with Historical Perspective, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2003.
• E. A. Baskharone, Principles of Turbomachinery in Air-Breathing Engines, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• G. P. Sutton & O. Biblarz, Rocket Propulsion Elements, 9th edition, Wiley, 2017.
Assessment(s)
Nature Coefficient Observable objectives
1 1. Understanding the phenomenon of compressible flow and shock waves.
2. Analyze and evaluate the isentropic model for nozzle design (convergent and convergent-divergent nozzles).
0,5 In this exam following topic will beanalyzed:
1. propulsion systems
2. Governing equations for flow induced disturbance
3. Fundamentals of Compressible flow (sonic, sub-, and super-sonic) through nozzles

2 3. Able to perform thermodynamic analysis to evaluate the performance parameters of air-breathing and rocket propulsion systems.
4. Explain and compare jet propulsion-related technologies applied to various types of vehicles.
0,5 In this exam, the following topic will be be analyzed:
1. Combustion in air breathing engines
2. Combustion in rocket engines
3. Jet engines