Aero-propulsion engines

Oates, G.C., The Aerothermodynamics of Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines, Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory, Technical Report AFAPL-TR-78-52, 1978. 

Despite the fact that thermo-acoustic instabilihes have been studied for more than a century, their control and elimination in practical combustion devices is still a problem that is difficult to master, particularly in devices with a high energy density such as aero-engines and rocket propulsion systems [24-28]. 

The realization of improved efficiency for engines used for aero and space propulsion as well as for land-based power generation will depend strongly on advancements made in... 

The first and second stages of the Rocket Engine Laboratory were eompleted at Purdue University under his direction. In 1954 he took all of the gas turbine and jet propulsion work to the new rocket Lab, so that the Purdue Aero Sehool was left with no graduate program in this field. 

From Bolz, R.E. and Tuve, G.L., Fluid and aero mechanics, in CRC Handbook of Tables for Applied Engineering Science, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1973, pp. 496-501. Originally from JPL Technical Report 32-1332, L.H. Back, Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology 1968. 

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