AE419 Propulsion Fall 2014

Homework Set #2 Handout: Wensday, 09/10 Due: Tuesday 09/16, 5:00pm

1. A 1 m
3
rocket-propellant chamber is filled with combustion gases at 3000 Kel and 7
MPa at the instant combustion crease. The throat area of the nozzle is 0.1 m
2
. Estimate
after 1 second, how much the chamber pressure will be. You can assume that at the
instant combustion ceases, the chamber propellant supply stops completely, and also that
=1.2, and

=20.

2. A 2D diffuser that produces no net turning of the flow, for the geometry shown,
calculates the overall stagnation pressure ratio for a flight Mach number of 3.0. Neglect
all losses except those occurring in the shocks. And, what will be the stagnation pressure
ratio shall be if there is only one normal shock wave (no oblique shock waves) with an
Mach number 3.0.?


3. Air enters a constant-area duct at Mach 3 and stagnation conditions of 800 Kel and 1.3
Mpa. In the duct it undergoes a frictionless energy-transfer process such that the exit
Mach number is 1.0, determine the stagnation temperature and pressure at the exit.

4. A given steady flow of a perfect gas in a constant-area duct is affected by friction. For
subsonic flow the wall friction coefficient is not very sensitive to Mach number and may
be represented approximately (for smooth-walled ducts) as:

,
the same as for incompressible. Consider a duct operating with an inlet Mach number
of 0.2 and =1.4. With a Reynolds number in the duct of 10
5
,
the exit Mach number is
0.25. Determine the relative pressure drop (p
1
-p
2
)/p
1.



(If you feel short of conditions, then add your assumptions and explain them).