Engine Structures and Design I.

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Department of Aerospace Engineering

Synopsis:

Geometry flow optimization of turbine engines, design modules. System of engine housing, bearing support, rotor system, connecting shafts and clutches. Motor curtains.

Sizing components, external forces and moments, load mode, internal stress, dilatation, corrosion, material fatigue. Dynamic tuning, structural damping, control operating clearance. Materials and special technologies. Bearings, filling and sealing, oil and cooling circuits. Inlets and their protection. Multistage axial and mixed compressors. Features, stability, control. Combustion chamber - types, features. Combustion kinetics, flame stabilization, perfect combustion, temperature field, pressure loss. Fuel systems. Ignition systems.

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Aicraft Propulsion.

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Study Objective:

Introduction to design and structures of aerospace turbine engines.

Study materials:

H. G. Münzberg: FlugantriebeGrundlagen, Systematik und Technik der Luft - und Raumfahrtantriebe, Springer-Verlag Berlin-New York, 1972

D. V. Chronin: Konstrukcija i projektorovanije aviacionnych gazoturbinnych dvigatelej, MAŠINOSTROJENIE, Moskva, 1989

The aircraft gas turbine engine and its operation p & W Oper. Instr. 200/1988

K. V. Cholščevnikov: Teorija i rasčet aviacionnych lopatočnych mašin, MAŠINOSTROJENIE Moskva, 1986

Z. Linhart, J. Kamenický: Konstrukce leteckých motorů, učebnice U 781/I, VA Brno

Technical documentation of WALTER a.s. Prague.

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