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1. Compare air breathing engine and rocket engine. IO

2. What are the factors to be considered while designing a subsonic LO

inlet?
3. What is meant by sub critical mode of inlet operation? State its advantages and IO
disadvantages.
4. What are the requirements of an aircraft intake? LO

5. Define efficiency of the combustion. IO

6. List the advantages and disadvantages of annular combustor. LO

7. What are the types of nozzle in gas turbine engine? LO

8. Define under expanded nozzle. IO

9. Define laminar flow airfoils. LO

10. Define Diffusion Factor IO

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11. a) Calculate the drag at Mach 0.8 and 40-kft altitude of the HF-1 aircraft at 90 percent IO
of maximum gross takeoff weight with load factors of 1 and 4.
OR
b) With a neat sketch explain the air breathing of ramjet engine LO

12. a) LO
What are the objectives of chamber geometry

OR OR
b) Calculate the throat & exit areas of a nozzle to expand air at the rate of 4.5 kg/s from IO
8.3 bar, 327 C into a space at 1.38 bar. Neglect the inlet velocity & assume
isentropic flow.

13. a) LO
Briefly explain the vortex theory

OR OR
b) Explain the principles of blade surface boundary layers IO

14. a) List the merits and demerits of axial turbine designs IO

OR OR
b) A simple gas-turbine engine operates with air as the working fluid, a pressure ratio LO
of 18:1, and a maximum temperature of 700 oC. The air enters the compressor at 100
kPa, 20 oC. Determine the thermal efficiency, specific heat addition, and state of air
exhausted by the turbine when it is modeled by the Brayton cycle.

15. a) Give the difference between pulse jet and ram jet engine. IO
OR OR
 b) An ideal ramjet is operated at 50,000 ft and Mach 3. The diffuser and nozzle are LO
assembled to be isentropic,
and the combustion is to be modeled as an ideal heat interaction at constant Mach
number with constant
total pressure. The cross-sectional area and Mach number for certain engine stations
are given. The total temperature
leaving the combustor Tr4 is 4000°R.
a) Determine the mass flow rate of air through the engine (lbm/s)

16. a) An aircraft with a turbofan propulsion system is flying at a speed of 200 m/s at an HO
altitude where pressure is 60 kPa and temperature is 0 oC. The compressor has a
pressure ratio of 8:1, the maximum Brayton cycle temperature is 400 oC, and the
area of the opening servicing the fan engine is 3 m2, and the mass flow rate ratio,
defined as rm = (mt + me)/me, is 4:1. Where mtis the thrust generating mass flow rate
and me is the mass flow rate needed to supply the Brayton cycle engine. Determine
the thrust force generated by this propulsion unit.
OR
b) A convergent divergent nozzle expands air at 6.84 bar & 427 C into a space at 1 bar. HO
The throat area of the nozzle is 650 mm² & the exit area is 975 mm². The exit
velocity is found to be 680 m/s when the inlet velocity is negligible. Assuming that
friction in the convergent portion is negligible, calculate:
(i) The mass flow through the nozzle, stating whether the nozzle is under-expanding
or over-expanding;
(ii) The nozzle efficiency & the coefficient of velocity.