Combustion Turbines and Engines

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	361-0530/04
Abbreviation	STM
Course title	Combustion Turbines and Engines
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator	Ing. Radim Janalík, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Combustrion Engines
1. Function principle of combustion engines
2. Ideal and actual working cycles
3. Efficiency and performance characteristics
4. Construction of four-stroke and two-stroke engines
5. Individual systen and parts of engines
6. Utilization in transport and energeics
7. Efficiency and economy of operation
Gas turbine
8. Function principle of Gas turbines
9. Brayton cycle (ideal and real)
10. Efficiency and way of increasing of efficiency
11. Microturbine
12. Main patrts construction
13. Aircraft gas turbine engines
14. Steam-gas cycle

Literature

MORAN, M., J., SHAPIRO, H., N. Fundamental of Engineering Thermodynamics. 2nd ed. New York: John Wiey&Sons, Inc., December 2002. ISBN 0-471-97960-0.
HEISLER, H. Advanced engine technology. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, c 1995. .
GIAMPAOLO, Tony. Gas Turbine Handbook: Principles and Practice. The Fairmont Press, Fifth Edition, 2013. ISBN–10: 0-88173-712-7.
JANALÍK. R. Gas turbine, Projekt: Technika pro budoucnost 2.0. Učební opora. VŠB TU Ostrava, 2020.

Advised literature

FERGUSON, Colin, R. Internal combustion engines. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1986.
MÍKA, J. Thermal Motors.
LEE, T.-W. Aerospace Propulsion. Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, United Kingdom, 2014.

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