Department of Aircraft Engines and Power Plants

Major subject: Aircraft engines and power plants.
Direction: Aviation and Cosmonautics

Ion-plasma rocket engines and power plants of satellites and space vehicles are the objects of study.

Specializations:

-engines and power unit of satellites and space vehicles  

-Ion-plasma technologies:

 

Brief annotation of the major subject and specializations:

Ion-plasma engines are the engines of the 21st century  spacecraft. Their characteristics are unique: reliability, longevity, inexhaustible fuel reserves in space make them the only engines designed for distant flight. The electrojet engines are even now installed on many satellites and spacecraft of Russia, USA, France, FRG, Italy, Japan and other countries.

The heart of any space vehicle is the power plant, which includes onboard systems and devices which guarantees  production, conversion, accumulation and electrical power distribution for the functioning of all systems on board the flight vehicle.

Under the terrestrial conditions "elecktrorocket engine" are used as "technological tool" for obtaining coatings from metallic and nonmetallic materials on the articles of industrial, everyday and medical usage, which makes it possible to sharply increase the service life of the articles, to make articles under "gold", "silver",etc.

The knowledge of computer designing technologies augmented by deep knowledge of the object of design makes it possible for specialists to be those claimed of any design bureau, research institutions, industrial enterprises.

The international collaboration between scientists, engineers of different countries is impossible without knowledge of foreign languages, especially this is characteristic for the rocket-space branch, which ever more acquires international nature.To solve these problems is possible, being trained on the "scientific-technical translation" specialization.

 

 

BACHELOR’S degree

 

4 years of training

 

Natural sciences disciplines

 

Higher mathematics

Physics

Chemistry

Computer equipment and programming

Engineering and computer graphics

Introduction to major subject

Theoretical mechanics and theory of mechanisms and machines

Mechanics of material and structures

Electrical engineering and electronics

Interchangeability and standardization

Designing of  mechanisms and machines

Aviation materials science

Thermodynamics and heat exchange

Aerohydrodynamics

Functional systems and information-measuring systems for aerospace engineering

Physical-chemical bases of technological processes

Energy and resource saving

Ergonomics and design

Economy of enterprises

Bases of labour protection activity

Marketing and management

Human engineering psychology

 

Vocational and practical disciplines

 

Solid-state physics

Theoretical bases of numerical simulation of physical processes in aircraft power units

Gas electrodynamics

Plasma kinetics and electrode processes

Energy sources and converters

Nontraditional energy sources and converters

Bases of theory and functioning of plasma accelerators and power units

Physical principles of direct energy conversion

Equipment and experimental support of tests

External effect factors

Bases of simulation of aerospace engineering objects

Reliability and effectiveness of aerospace equipment

General arrangement and design of aerospace engineering objects

Technology of production of plasma accelerators and power units

 

 

SPECIALIST’S degree

 

1,5 years of training

 

Norm disciplines

Disciplines for special study

 

Special sections of mathematics and mechanics

Utilization of aerospace engineering objects

Organization and management of production

 

Optional disciplines (for independent choice)

 

Labour protection activity in industry

Mathematical modeling of dynamic processes in plasma accelerators elements and power units

Power supply and control of rocket engines

Engineering and design of rocket engines

Testings of plasma accelerators and power units

Interaction of plasma flows with gas medium and surface

Construction and design of plasma accelerators and power units

Pre-graduate course

 

 

MASTER’S degree

 

1,5 years of training

 

Norm disciplines

Disciplines for special study

 

Special sections of mathematics and mechanics

Utilization of aerospace engineering objects

Organization and management of production

 

Optional disciplines (for independent choice)

 

Labour protection activity in industry

Mathematical modeling of dynamic processes in plasma accelerators elements and power units

Power supply and control of rocket engines

Engineering and design of rocket engines

Testings of plasma accelerators and power units

Interaction of plasma flows with gas medium and surface

Construction and design of plasma accelerators and power units

Pre-graduate course

 

PhD degree

 

3 years of training

 

Major subject

 

Aircraft engines and power units

 

 

Leading instructors:

 

Belan Nikolay Vasilievich - Professor, D. Sc.

 

 

Main published works:

 

1.      A.Loyan, N.Belan, A.Oranskiy, N.Koshelev, S.Lobov. The Results of Researching of Low-Current Self-Heated Hollow Cathodes on Electric Current Range from 0,3 up to 0,5 A.//27th International Electric Propulsion Conference (IEPS-2001) (14-19) 12, 2001. 01-272.

2.      Основы питания и управления электрореактивных двигательных установок / Н. В. Белан, Н.А. Маштылев. – Харьков: Нац. аэрокосмический ун-т «Харьк. авиац. ин-т», 2002. – 343 с.

Bases of power supply and control of electrojet power plants

 

3.              Белан Н.В., Олендарев В.Д., Максименко Т.А. Физико-математическая модель процессов в стационарном плазменном двигателе // Авіаційно-космічна техніка і технологія: Зб. наук. праць. – Харків: Нац. аерокосмічний ун-т “Харк. авіац. ін-т”; Миколаїв: Вид-во МФ НаУКМА, 2002. – Вип. 31. Двигуни та енергоустановки. – С. 254-258.

Physical-mathematical model of stationary plasma engine processes

 

Bezruchko Konstantin Vasilievich – Professor, D. Sc.

 

Main published works:

 

1.      Солнечные энергосистемы космических аппаратов. Физическое и математические моделирование / К. В. Безручко, Н. В. Белан, Д. Г. Белов, С. В. Губин, В. И. Драновский, Я. С. Кривцов, И. Т. Перекопский, И. Б. Туркин / Под ред. акад. НАН Украины С.Н. Конюхова. – Харьков: Гос. аэрокосмический ун-т «Харьк. авиац. ин-т», 2000. – 515 с.

Spacecraft solar power systems. Physical and mathematical modeling.

 

2.      Солнечные батареи автоматических космических аппаратов (компоновка на КА, конструкция узлов, проектировочные расчеты) / К. В. Безручко, В. Ф. Гайдуков, С. В. Губин, В. И. Драновский, Я. С. Карпов, И. Б. Туркин – Учеб. пособие для технических вузов и специальностей аэрокосмического профиля. – Харьков: Нац. аэрокосмический ун-т «Харьк. авиац. ин-т»,2001. – 276 с.

Solar batteries of automatic spacecraft (direct installation upon spacecraft, units structure, design calculations)

 

3.      Безручко К. В., Губин С. В., Семененко С. В. Математическое моделирование вольт-амперной характеристики фотоэлектрической батареи для систем автономного электроснабжения // Сборник научных трудов СНИЯЭиП. – Севастополь: СНИЯЭиП, 2002. – Вып. 6. – с. 102-110.

Mathematical modeling of voltage-current characteristics of photoelectric battery used in autonomous power supply systems

 

Kolesnik Vladimir Petrovich - Associate Professor, Cand. Sc.

 

Main published works:

 

1.      Гнап А.К., Коваленко Н.И., Колесник В.П. Формирование переходного слоя при взаимодействии потоков металлической плазмы с диэлектриками //Электрометаллургия. Вып. 4, 2001. – 18-21.

Formation of transition layer under metallic plasma flow and  dielectrics interaction

 

2.      Формирование жаростойких покрытий типа Me-Cr-Al-Y / Белан Н.В., Иващенко С.С., Колесник В.В., Колесник В.П.// Вопросы проектирования и производства конструкций летательных аппаратов: Сб. науч. трудов. Вып. 30(3). Харьков, 2002 – с. 175.

Formation of heat-resistance coatings of Me-Cr-Al-Y type

 

Oranskiy Anatoly IvanovichProfessor, Doctor of Technical Sciences

 

Main published works:

 

1.      С.А.Огиенко, А.И.Оранский. Моделирование течения нейтрального газа в канале СПД и исследование возможности воздействия на это течение с целью увеличения тяги движителя. // Інтегровані компютерні технології в машинобудуванні. Харків.: ХАІ, 2001,С.57.

Simulation of inert gas flow in stationary plasma engine channel and study of possibility of its influence on this flow with the purpose of propeller thrust augmentation.

 

2.      Работы Национального аэрокосмического университета «Харьковский авиационный институт» в области электрореактивных двигателей / Н.В.Белан, В.И.Белоконь, Н.Н.Кошелев, А.В.Лоян, А.И.Оранский, Н.П.Степанушкин // Авіаційно-космічна техніка і технологія: Зб. наук. праць. – Харків: Нац. аерокосмічний ун-т “Харк. авіац. ін-т”; Миколаїв: Вид-во МФ НаУКМА, 2002. – Вип. 34. Двигуни та енергоустановки. – С. 244-247.

Proceedings of the National Aerospace University Kharkov Aviation Institutein the field of ion-plasma jet engines.

 

3.      S.Yu.Nesterenko, A.I.Oranskiy. Two-Dimension Effects In Ion Flow Inside Inter-Electrode Gap Of Plasma-Ion Thruster // International Conf. And School on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. Book of Abstracts. – Alushta (Crimea), Ukraine, September 16-21, 2002. – 2002. – P.12.