ASE 362K

Homework#1 (due Jan 31)

Spring 2014

Note: By their design, there is no shaft or other power transfer in inlets or nozzles. Compressors and turbines do have shaft power transfers. For air assume R = 287 J/kg-K, ! = 1.40. 1. Air flows into a subsonic aircraft inlet with a velocity of 206 m/s. The static temperature and pressure of the air at the inflow section are 227 K and 22.4 kPa respectively. The inflow area is 0.56 m2. The outflow air has static temperature and pressure of 241 K and 26.4 kPa respectively, and its velocity is 118 m/s. Assuming steady quasi-1D flow across the inlet and exit sections, calculate: (a) the mass flow rate of air through the inlet; (b) the outflow area; (c) the inflow and outflow Mach numbers (d) the specific entropy increase [J/kg-K] of the air for the stated conditions, and the entropy production rate [W/K] due to the inlet. 2. Air enters a compressor at a pressure of 74.7 kPa and 287 K and leaves at 622 kPa and 579 K. The air flow rate is 50 kg/s. Calculate: (a) the shaft power input required to drive the compressor; (b) the entropy production rate due to the compressor operation. 3. An ideal gas has a molar mass of 20 kg/kmol and a ratio of specific heats ! = 1.20. It enters a rocket nozzle with a negligible velocity, with a pressure of 10.0 MPa and a temperature of 3200 K. One can assume that the gas flow through the rocket nozzle is adiabatic, steady, and quasi 1-D and the specific heats are constant. The gas pressure and temperature at the nozzle exit plane are 14.0 kPa and 1177 K respectively. Calculate: (a) the value of cp for the gas; (b) the gas exit velocity and Mach number; (c) the exit velocity if the expansion were isentropic to the same exit pressure (14.0 kPa). 4. A gas of molar mass 44 kg/kmol is at a pressure of 4.0 MPa and a temperature of 500 K. Estimate the gas density if it is (a) Propane (C3H8) (b) Nitrous oxide (N2O). Hint: check how well the ideal gas approximation works in each case by determining the compressibility factor for each gas (do a search for the critical properties). Recall that a slightly more general form of the ideal gas equation is p = Z ! RT , where the compressibility factor Z is a function of the reduced pressure and temperature: Z = Z ( pr , Tr ); pr ! p pc , Tr ! T Tc ; pc, Tc are the critical pressure and temperature. Cite your reference(s) for critical state data and for your Z calculation.

P. L. Varghese