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Thermodynamics and Propulsion

Index

absorptance
19.
absorption
19.
actuator disk theory
11.7.3
adiabatic
see processes
adiabatic efficiency
see efficiency
adiabatic flame temperature
15.5
angular momentum
12.2
Biot number
17.3
black body
19.1
boundary layer
17.1
Brayton cycle
3.7
efficiency
3.7.1
in $ T$ -$ s$
6.4
maximum work
3.7.2
net work
6.4.1
Breguet Range Equation
13.3
Carnot cycle
3.3 | 6.1
efficiency
3.3
in $ T$ -$ s$
6.3
two-phase
8.3
Clausius-Clapeyron equation
8.4
climbing flight
of aircraft
13.5
coefficient of performance
3.4
combined cycle
8.7
combined first and second law
5.1 | 5.3
compressor adiabatic efficiency
11.6.5
conduction
16.2
resistance circuits
16.4
through cylindrical shell
16.5.1
through spherical shell
16.5.2
with convection
17.2
conductivity
16.2
continuum
1.2.1
control volume
2.5
defined
2.6
convection
17.
Newton's law of cooling
17.
Reynolds analogy
17.1
with conduction
17.2
coordinate systems
10.
critical point
8.1
critical radius of insulation
17.2
cycle
Brayton
3.7
Carnot
3.3
combined
8.7
defined
1.2.5 | 3.1
Diesel
3.6
Otto
3.5
Rankine
8.5
real cycle behavior
11.6.5
Diesel cycle
3.6
dimensional analysis
for propellers
11.7.4
dissipation
6.5
drag
used to predict heat transfer
17.1
efficiency
adiabatic
6.7 | 11.6.5
Brayton cycle
3.7.1
Carnot cycle
3.3
overall
11.1 | 13.3.1
propulsive
11.2 | 13.3.2
refrigerators and heat pumps
3.4
thermal
3.1
emittance
19.2
endurance
of aircraft
13.4
energy
2.1
internal
2.1 | 2.6
kinetic
2.1
potential
2.1
transfered as heat
1.3.1
transfered as work
1.3.3
unavailable
6.6
enthalpy
defined
2.3.1
enthalpy of formation
15.3
entropy
6.8
and disorder
7.1
and propulsive power
6.7
definition
5.1
generated
6.5
on a microscopic scale
7.2
entropy changes
6.5
hot brick problem
5.5
ideal gas
5.4
equilibrium
1.2.4
defined
1.2.4
euler turbine equation
12.3
extensive
see properties
fin
18.2
First Law of Thermodynamics
combined with second law
5.3
control mass form
2.1
control volume form
2.5.2
for reacting systems
15.4
SFEE (simplified CV form)
2.5.3.3
Fourier's law of heat conduction
16.2
free expansion
4.2 | 5.5
friction
and lost work
6.7
fuel-air ratio
11.6.3.2 | 15.2
Gibbs equation
5.1 | 5.3
gray body
19.2
h-s diagrams
6.4
heat
1.3.1
sources
18.1
transfer in steady state
16.3
two-phase systems
8.2
heat exchangers
18.5
efficiency
18.5.3
heat flux
16.2
heat pumps
3.4
heat reservoir
heat transfer between two
5.5
heat transfer to or from
5.5
work from single
5.5
heat transfer coefficient
17.1
hot brick problem
5.5
ideal gases
2.4.1
enthalpy
2.3.1 | 2.4.1
entropy changes
5.4
equation of state
2.4.1
internal energy
2.4.1
perfect gas
2.4.1
specific heats
2.4.1 | 2.4.1
intensive
see properties
internal combustion engine
3.5
internal energy
see energy
irreversibility
4.2 | 6.5 | 6.8.2
in cycles
11.6.5
isentropic efficiency
see adiabatic efficiency
isothermal
see processes
Isp
11.4
jet engine
thrust
10.3
Joule cycle
see Brayton cycle
Kirchoff's law
19.2
laminar boundary layer
see boundary layer
lost work
6.5 | 6.6
throttle
6.7
maximum work
allowed by Second Law
6.1
Brayton cycle
3.7.2
momentum
integral theorem
10.
Newton's law of cooling
17.
Newton's Second Law
10.
nozzle
rocket
14.3
Otto cycle
3.5
efficiency
3.5.1
non-dimensional power
3.5.2
overall efficiency
see efficiency | see efficiency
path
1.2.5
perfect gas
2.4.1
performance
of aircraft
13.
of aircraft engine
11.
of propeller
11.7
of ramjet
11.6.3
of rocket
14.1
of turbojet
11.6.4
phase
8.1
power coefficient
11.7.4.4
power required
for aircraft
13.2
Prandtl number
17.1
process
defined
1.2.5
processes
adiabatic
1.3.1 | 2.3.1
examples of reversible and irreversible
6.8.3
isothermal
3.3 | 4.2
isothermal work $ N\mathcal{R}T
\ln\left(\frac{P_1}{P_2}\right)$
3.1
quasi-equilibrium
1.2.6
reversible
1.3.3
reversible and adiabatic
2.4.2
reversible and adiabatic $ pv^\gamma$ relationship
2.4.2
propellers
actuator disk theory
11.7.3
efficiency
11.7.4.3
performance
11.7
power coefficient
11.7.4.4
thrust coefficient
11.7.4.1
torque coefficient
11.7.4.2
properties
extensive
1.2.3 | 1.4
intensive
1.2.3 | 1.4
specific
1.2.3 | 1.4
propulsive efficiency
11.2 | 13.3.2
implications for design
11.3
quality
8.1
quasi-equilibrium
see processes
quasi-one-dimensional heat flow
16.5
radiation
19.
of a black body
19.1
ramjet
3.7.3
efficiency
3.7.3
fuel-air ratio
11.6.3.2
performance
11.6.3
specific impulse
11.6.3.3
thrust
11.6.3
range
see Breguet Range Equation
Rankine cycle
8.5
efficiency
8.5
superheated
8.6
reciprocity relation
19.4
reflectance
19.
reflection
19.
refrigerators
3.4
resistance circuits
16.4
reversibility
1.3.3 | 4.1 | 5.2.5 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 6.8.2
things to check for
4.3
Reynolds analogy
17.1
rocket
performance of
14.1
thrust
10.2
rocket equation
14.2
rocket nozzle
14.3
saturated liquid
8.1
saturated vapor
8.1
saturation state
8.1
Second Law of Thermodynamics
5.2.4
combined with first law
5.3
experimental proof
8.4
SFC
11.4
shape factor
19.4
reciprocity
19.4
shear stress
17.1
sign conventions
control mass form
2.6
skin friction coefficient
17.1
slab
16.3.1
composite
16.4
specific
see properties
specific heats
2.4
ideal gases
2.4.1
specific impulse
11.4
stagnation temperature
defined
2.5.3
Stanton number
17.1
state
static vs. stagnation
2.6 | 6.7
thermodynamic
1.2.3
state equation
see ideal gases
Steady Flow Energy Equation
see First Law of Thermodynamics
steady-state heat transfer
16.3
Stefan-Boltzmann constant
19.1
stoichiometric
15.1
superheated
Rankine cycle
8.6
vapor
8.1
system
closed
1.2.2
T-s diagrams
6.3
tank filling problem
2.3.3 | 2.5.4.1
temperature distribution
cylindrical shell
16.5.1
slab
16.3.1
spherical shell
16.5.2
temperature scale
6.2
theoretical air
15.1
thermal conductivity
16.2
thermal resistance circuits
16.4
thermochemistry
15.
thermocouple
19.3.2
thermodynamic cycle
see cycle
thermodynamic efficiency
see efficiency
thermodynamic properties
see properties
thermodynamic state
see state
thermodynamic system
see system
thermodynamic temperature scale
see temperature scale
throttle
2.3.1 | 6.7
thrust
11.6.3
thrust coefficient
11.7.4.1
torque coefficient
11.7.4.2
transient heat transfer
18.3
transmission
19.
transmittance
19.
TSFC
11.4
turbine adiabatic efficiency
11.6.5
turbojet
performance
11.6.4
turbulent boundary layer
see boundary layer
two-phase systems
8.1
Carnot cycle
8.3
P-T diagram
8.1
P-v diagram
8.1
Rankine cycle
8.5
T-v diagram
8.1
work and heat transfer
8.2
unavailable energy
6.6
vapor dome
8.1
slope
8.4
vapor pressure curve
8.1
velocity triangles
12.5
view factor
19.4
viscosity
dynamic
17.1
kinematic
17.1
work
1.3.3 | 1.4
$ \int PdV$
1.3.3
from a single heat reservoir
5.5
net work in a real cycle
11.6.5
shaft
2.6
two-phase systems
8.2
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
1.3.2 | 5.2.2

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