NPTEL : NOC:Fundamentals of Combustion for Propulsion (Mechanical Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Prof. S Varunkumar, Prof. H S Mukunda


Lecture 1 - Introduction

Lecture 2 - Combustion processes in ICE and Gas turbine engines

Lecture 3 - Combustion in solid and liquid rocket motors

Lecture 4 - Equilibrium

Lecture 5 - Chemical kinetics, Equilibrium vs rate controlled

Lecture 6 - Demonstration of NASA-CEA

Lecture 7 - Premixed and diffusion flames: principal features and differences - Part I

Lecture 8 - Premixed and diffusion flames: principal features and differences - Part II

Lecture 9 - Quenching, flammability and other limit phenomena

Lecture 10 - Conservation equations

Lecture 11 - Integral Analysis of flame

Lecture 12 - Solid propellant combustion

Lecture 13 - Erosive burning

Lecture 14 - Instability in solid rockets

Lecture 15 - Analysis of p-t traces - Part II

Lecture 16 - Statistical representation of composite propellants in HeQu1D - geometry and thermochemistry

Lecture 17 - HeQu1D model - Parameter estimation

Lecture 18 - Effects of Al - extended HeQu1D model

Lecture 19 - Instability in solid rockets - II

Lecture 20 - Tutorial

Lecture 21 - Liquid propellant rockets - Part I

Lecture 22 - Liquid propellant rockets - Part II

Lecture 23 - Combustion in liquid rockets

Lecture 24 - Instabilities in liquid rockets and gas turbine after burners

Lecture 25 - CFD modeling aspects - Fundamentals

Lecture 26 - CFD modeling aspects - Modeling appraches

Lecture 27 - Effect of turbulence on flames

Lecture 28 - Scramjets - Part I

Lecture 29 - Scramjets - Part II

Lecture 30 - Summary - Premixed flames

Lecture 31 - Summary - Non-premixed flames

Lecture 32 - Summary - Solid rocket propulsion

Lecture 33 - Additional Insights