Unit-4: JET ENGINES

Prepared by:
Ankur Sachdeva
Assistant Professor, ME
 What is Propulsion
• A propulsion system is a machine that produces thrust to push an
object forward.
• On airplanes, thrust is usually generated through some application
of Newton's third law of action and reaction.
• A gas, or working fluid, is accelerated by the engine, and the reaction
to this acceleration produces a force on the engine
 How a thrust is generated?
• Thrust is the force that moves an aircraft through the air.
• Thrust is generated by the engines of the airplane.
• Thrust is a mechanical force.
• It is generated through the reaction of accelerating a mass of gas.
• The gas is accelerated to the rear and the engine (and aircraft) is
accelerated in the opposite direction.
• To accelerate the gas, we need some kind of propulsion system
 Air Breathing and Non-Air Breathing Engines
• An air-breathing engine is an engine that takes in air from its
surroundings in order to burn fuel.

• Non-air-breathing engines carry an oxygen supply.

• They can be used both in the atmosphere and in outer space.
• They are commonly called rockets and are of two kinds liquid-
propellant and solid-propellant.
Propellor engine
Jet Engines
Jet Engine – Common Types