ME 421 - Aerospace Propulsion

Course Cross-listed with ME 531
3 credit(s)
The performance analysis of aircraft gas turbine engines, turboprops, and rocket vehicles. Ideal shaft power gas turbine cycles; cycle losses; the ideal ramjet, turbojet, and turbofan engines; aircraft engine losses; turboprops and propellers; performance of rocket vehicles. Students who have completed ME 421 cannot take ME 531.
Prerequisite(s): ME 420 or ME 530.

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