AE223: Thermodynamics and Propulsion

2018 – 2019 ( Semester I )

Instructor: Prof. Krishnendu Sinha ( krish@aero.iitb.ac.in )

Teaching Assistants:

• Nitin Murugan - for issues related to Attendance (nitinmurugan@gmail.com)

• Rahul Upadhyay - for issues related to Tutorial Problems (rahulupadhyay098@gmail.com)

• Jagadish Babu - for issues related to Grading (jagadishbabu.iitb@gmail.com)

• Pratikkumar Raje - for issues related to Moodle ( pratikraje@iitb.ac.in )

Class Timing: Monday: 8:30 to 9:25 AM

Tuesday: 9.30 to 10.25 AM
Thursday: 10.35 to 11.30 AM

Tutorial Timing: Monday: 3.30 to 5.00 PM

Course Content:

 Basic concepts: System boundary, surroundings, state, extensive and intensive properties,
energy interactions, work and heat transfers, equilibrium, quasi-static and reversible
processes, non-equilibrium and irreversible processes.

 Thermodynamic laws: Zeroth law and temperature, first law and internal energy, first law
applied to flow processes, second law, entropy and absolute temperature, third law and
absolute entropy, energy and exergy.

 Applications: thermodynamics of simple compressible systems, cyclic processes, Carnot

cycle; Cycle analysis: Otto cycle, Diesel cycle, Joule-Brayton cycle.

 Introduction to aerospace power plants: turbojet, turbofan, ramjet, rockets.

 Elements of heat transfer.

Text Book: Nag, P. K., Engineering Thermodynamics, McGraw Hill Education; Fifth edition (1
April 2013).

Attendance: contributes to your final grade.

Grading Scheme:

 Tutorials cum Quiz:----- 20%

 Mid-Sem Exam: -----25%
 End-Sem Exam: ------50%
 Class Participation (Including Attendance): -----5%