Question: A ramjet engine is an air - breathing propulsion device with essentially no rotating machinery ( no rotating compressor blades, turbine, etc. ) . The

A ramjet engine is an air-breathing propulsion device with essentially no rotating machinery
(no rotating compressor blades, turbine, etc.). The basic generic parts of a conventional ramjet
are sketched below. The flow, moving from left to right, enters the inlet where it is compressed
and slowed down. The compressed air then enters the combustor at subsonic speed, where it is
mixed and burned with a fuel. The hot gas then expands through a nozzle. The net result is
the production of thrust toward the left. The ramjet shown is in a supersonic freestream with
a detached shock wave ahead of the inlet. For this problem, you may assume that the gas that
flows through the engine has a ratio of spocific heats =1.4, and R=287JkgK.
(a) The portion of the shock between point 1 and point 2 is a normal shock. After passing
through the shock wave, the flow from point 2 to point 3, located at the entrance to the
combustor, is isentropic. The ramjet is flying at Mach 2 at a standard altitude of 10km, where
the air pressure and temperature are 26500Pa and 223.3K respectively. Calculate the air
temperature and pressure at point 3 when the Mach number at that point is 0.2.
(b) Calculate the entropy change across the shock wave.
(c) Suppose heat is added from point 3 to point 4 in a constant pressure process, such that
p4=p3,T4=3990K, and M4=0.633. The flow from point 4 to 5 is then accelerated in an
isentropic process isentropic, where the flow becomes choked at point 5(i.e.M5=1). If the
area of the nozzle throat at point 5 is 0.1m2, calculate T5,p5,5,c5, and the mass flow rate of
air through the engine.
 A ramjet engine is an air-breathing propulsion device with essentially no

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