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ABSTRACT
Aerospace propulsion systems (for aircraft, space launchers, missiles, probes, satellites, etc.) are mostly of two types; reactors and propellers. This article presents several categories of propulsion systems and defines the main quantities used in the domain of the propulsion, such as specific impulse and constructive index. The main industrial trends are also presented.
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Marc BOUCHEZ : Graduate of the École catholique d'arts et métiers de Lyon and the École supérieure des techniques aérospatiales - Temporary professor of propulsion at several universities and grandes écoles - Emeritus member of the Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France - Engineer in MBDA's Flight Engineering & Propulsion department, - Bourges, France
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The following articles review the essential concepts of flight, the aerodynamic and thermodynamic formulas used in propulsion, at the pre-project stage, as well as the different levels of modeling and simplified design laws for cruise, acceleration and initially powered ballistic flight.
In this article, particular attention is paid to the link with the design of the flying vehicle whose propulsion is to be studied, and to the orders of magnitude of the parameters associated with a given level of technology.
The examples and data provided are taken from the open literature, sometimes deliberately left in English, as the applications of these engines inevitably lead to restrictions on certain particular points of the propulsion systems from a commercial or military point of view.
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KEYWORDS
propulsion systems | propeller | jet engine
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