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Due to high power compared to weight and volume, gas turbines are very suitable components of aircraft propulsion systems. Almost all modern aircraft propulsion is gas turbine based. Only with low power (<300 kW), as for very light aircraft, reciprocating engines are used. Aircraft propulsion systems exist in a wide variety of types. The basic principle is always that the propulsive force (thrust) is a reaction to the acceleration of an air flow. In this chapter, we discuss the different systems and we analyse the performance of the core part, which is a gas turbine, and the performance of double-jet engines with mixed and unmixed jets, which are the most common types. The chapter is concluded by a discussion of some technological aspects.
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Dick, E. (2022). Thrust Gas Turbines. In: Fundamentals of Turbomachines. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 130. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93578-8_12
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