Jet Engine Competition: Analysis, Assembly and Operation
Cancelled
Prof. Zoltan Spakovszky, F. Ehrich
Wed Jan 5, Fri Jan 28, ??-??:00am, Times/Places Arr with Teams
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Dec-2010
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Unified Engineering (16.003-16.004)
The course gives students a “hands-on” experience in design modeling and analysis, engine assembly, test bed layout and operation of a small-scale gas turbine jet engine (the JetJoe JJ1200 Mk2 model jet engine kit designed for hobbyists who build jet powered model aircraft). Students are divided into teams and supplied with a kit of parts and all the necessary tools and reference text materials. The teams first establish an aero-thermodynamic performance model of the jet engine and estimate the design performance based on geometric information and component performance assumptions. The performance analysis is a competition and each team is asked to provide a performance bid before assembling the jet engine. The jet engine is then tested and the performance is measured at the Gas Turbine Laboratory. A prize is awarded to the winning team. Co-sponsored by the Gas Turbine Laboratory.
Contact: Robin Courchesne-Sato, rsato@mit.edu
Sponsor: Aeronautics and Astronautics
Latest update: 03-Dec-2010
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