JetX Aeolus is launched!

After more than two years in development, Aeolus is launched to deliver a modern and concise learning resource for jet engines!

What is Aeolus?

Aeolus is an educational platform that is aimed at younger engineers (or aspiring engineers) that want to learn more about jet engines or propulsion in general. It currently consists of 9 chapters that cover most basic areas of interest from component design, working cycle analysis and operation characteristics.

It has been a background project for us, as both the inclusion of information with the right degree of complexity and the production of over 65 new graphs, schematics and illustrations were both fairly time intensive. From the platform's homepage, you can navigate to all chapters or jump straight into a subsection using the full directory.

How is it any different than other resources?

Of course, we haven't redefined the principles of propulsion so you will be able to find most of the information provided in other places if you look for long enough. However, there are two reasons why we still felt that Aeolus was going to make a positive contribution among those resources:

• We've tried to write content that is neither too simple nor particularly maths-heavy. When we were previously referring members in their first year to do some background reading, we had come across a lot of resources that do one thing or the other well. We want to add depth to the understanding of the operation of a jet engine, but not quite try to solve for the 3D Navier-Stokes equation!
• We wanted it to look like it's used in 2020! It is very fortunate that there is a wealth of information from scientifically accurate sources, but its presentation doesn't always reflect that. If you are a professional engineer or scientist, aesthetics are secondary, if considered at all, but given that we want to encourage and inspire more young people to learn about propulsion and engineering in general, poorly scanned black and white graphs from a 60s book isn't the way to do it.

Even though a huge amount of time and effort was put towards Aeolus, it is provided for free for everyone, as part of our educational goals.

Will there be new content?

Yes, we're looking into adding new and/or supplementary sections, but not in the immediate future. Having said that, if you've read or used Aeolus and have a suggestion for new content, please use the feedback form within the platform and we'll take that into account!

Also, if you would like to use any of our illustrations or graphs for your project/presentation (applies to non-commercial uses/applications), you are welcome to do so with attribution (either by writing JetX or our website URL). Again, if you have found Aeolus to be helpful in such a way, we'd love to hear from you through the feedback section at the platform.

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