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Code No. A7605

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD
M .Tech. I Semester Regular Examinations, March – 2009
AERODYNAMICS AND PROPULSION OF FLIGHT VEHICLES
(Aerospace Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max.Marks.60
Answer any Five questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) What do you mean by a barotropic fluid? Explain the conservative

laws for this fluid in a conservative body force field with a
schematic.
(b) Explain the independence of scale for an inviscid flow. Enumerate
in detail the effects of considering additional parameters like
viscosity, heat conduction, shock waves or vortex wakes and
dimensionless numbers in viscous flows.

2. (a) Enumerate four important deductions based on the analytical and

experimental comparison studies for thin airfoils in supersonic
flows.
(b) What do you mean by a thin wing and explain the theory behind
it? Suggest two methods to derive the equations of motion
governing subsonic or supersonic flow around thin wings and
explain any one of them in detail.

3.(a) Deduce an expression for calculation of supersonic drag using

momentum theory.
(b) Explain the theory of drag due to lift in forward and reverse flows
with a neat schematic. Obtain an expression for element of drag
with respect to pressure disturbance.

4. What do you understand by singular perturbation method?

Considering a mass spring damper system involving an ordinary
differential equation explain the subsequent motion of the mass,
when m is very small with mathematical equations.

5. (a) Differentiate between ideal cycle and non-ideal cycle analysis in

air-breathing engines.
(b) Using h-s diagram for an ideal turbojet without an afterburner
obtain expressions for dimensionless thrust (ideal thrust equation)
and non dimensional TSFC.
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6.(a) What are diffusers and their functions? Classify them and explain
the effects of boundary layer growth and other viscous flows in
subsonic diffusers?
(b) What are nozzle coefficients and their significance on performance?
List two dimensionless nozzle coefficients and explain them in
detail using suitable correlations?

7. (a) What are compressors and their functions? Explain single stage
energy analysis in an axial flow compressor and tabulate various
component trends across it.
(b) What are turbines and their functions? Explain energy transfer
and energy transformation across a single stage impulse turbine
along with pressure and velocity distributions.

8.(a) What are combustors and their role played in air-breathing

propulsion? List four important steps involved in gas turbine
combustion and explain them in detail.
(b) What are bypass ducts and mixers in turbofan engine? Explain
viscous dissipation and its relation with Fanno line flow.

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