Lecture 1 - Course Intro & Historical development of flights
Lecture 2 - Early development of aircraft propulsive devices
Lecture 3 - Development of Jet propulsion for aircraft
Lecture 4 - Introduction to thermodynamics, Scope and method, Basic concepts: system, surroundings, property, intensive and extensive, state, equilibrium and state postulate, process, path and cycle
Lecture 5 - Quasi-static processes, zeroth law of thermodynamics and temperature, concept of energy and its various forms, internal energy, enthalpy
Lecture 6 - Specific heats at constant pressure and volume Work and heat transfers
Lecture 7 - Tutorial
Lecture 8 - First law of thermodynamics for closed systems
Lecture 9 - First law of thermodynamics for open systems/flow processes
Lecture 10 - Second law of thermodynamics, heat engines, refrigerators and heat pumps, Kelvin-Planck and Clausius statement of second law of thermodynamics
Lecture 11 - Reversible and irreversible processes, concept of entropy
Lecture 12 - Increase of entropy principle, third law of thermodynamics, absolute entropy, perpetual motion machines
Lecture 13 - Tutorial
Lecture 14 - Carnot cycle, Carnot principle, thermodynamic temperature scale
Lecture 15 - Exergy, availability and second law efficiency
Lecture 16 - Tutorial
Lecture 17 - Gas and vapour power cycles, Otto cycle, Diesel cycle, Dual cycle
Lecture 18 - Rankine cycle, Brayton cycle, Stirling and Ericsson cycles
Lecture 19 - Thermodynamic property relations, Jacobean and Legendre transformations, Maxwell’s equations
Lecture 20 - Tutorial
Lecture 21 - Properties of gas and vapour mixtures
Lecture 22 - One-dimensional compressible flows, isentropic flows
Lecture 23 - Flows with friction and heat transfer, normal and oblique shocks
Lecture 24 - Piston-prop engines: Otto cycles; Ideal and Real cycles
Lecture 25 - IC Engines for aircraft application
Lecture 26 - Performance parameters of IC engines
Lecture 27 - Supercharging of aircraft IC engines
Lecture 28 - Tutorial: IC Engines
Lecture 29 - Propeller fundamentals
Lecture 30 - Propeller aerodynamic theories - I
Lecture 31 - Propeller aerodynamic theories - II
Lecture 32 - Tutorial: Propellers
Lecture 33 - Ideal cycles for Jet engines
Lecture 34 - Ideal cycles for variants of jet engines
Lecture 35 - Tutorial
Lecture 36 - Fundamentals of Ramjets and Pulsejets
Lecture 37 - Fundamentals of Rocket engines
Lecture 38 - Fundamentals of Missile engines
Lecture 39 - Various space vehicles and their engines
Lecture 40 - Closure of the lecture series : recap