Overview
- More than 100 worked examples and end of chapter exercises provide practice for analysis, preliminary design, and systems integration for the student reader
- More than 200 illustrations plus 100 photos support and illustrate the text, giving readers a visual reference
- Details trends in engine developments for forthcoming decades to take into account the ecological requirements of a greener world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a comprehensive basics-to-advanced course in an aero-thermal science vital to the design of engines for either type of craft. The text classifies engines powering aircraft and single/multi-stage rockets, and derives performance parameters for both from basic aerodynamics and thermodynamics laws. Each type of engine is analyzed for optimum performance goals, and mission-appropriate engines selection is explained.
Fundamentals of Aircraft and Rocket Propulsion provides information about and analyses of:
- thermodynamic cycles of shaft engines (piston, turboprop, turboshaft and propfan);
- jet engines (pulsejet, pulse detonation engine, ramjet, scramjet, turbojet and turbofan);
- chemical and non-chemical rocket engines;
- conceptual design of modular rocket engines (combustor, nozzle and turbopumps); and
- conceptual design of different modules of aero-engines in their design and off-design state.
Aimed at graduate and final-year undergraduate students, this textbook provides a thorough grounding in the history and classification of both aircraft and rocket engines, important design features of all the engines detailed, and particular consideration of special aircraft such as unmanned aerial and short/vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. End-of-chapter exercises make this a valuable student resource, and the provision of a downloadable solutions manual will be of further benefit for course instructors.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Prof. Ahmed F. El-Sayed was a Senior Engineer for the Egyptian Airline EGYPTAIR, for 10 years, working in in maintenance, technical inspection, and
R&D departments as well as the engine overhaul shop. He has worked as a researcher in
corporate projects with Westinghouse (USA) and Rolls Royce (UK), and taught
propulsion and turbomachinery courses in several universities in Egypt, the USA, and Libya.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Aircraft and Rocket Propulsion
Authors: Ahmed F. El-Sayed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6796-9
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6794-5Published: 06 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-7393-9Published: 26 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-6796-9Published: 25 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 1010
Number of Illustrations: 329 b/w illustrations, 242 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Thermodynamics