- Handouts
- Course Detail
- I.
Introduction
- Overview
- History
- State-of-the-art
- Modern approaches
- Mission Architectures, Issues and
Sizing
- II.
Propellant Feed Systems
- Propellant Options
- Cryogenic propellants
- Storables
- "Green" propellants
- Propellant Storage
- Propellant tank sizing and
design
- Metal tank design and
fabrication
- Composite tank design and
fabrication
- Cryo-composite tank issues
- Propellant Delivery
- Rocket cycles
- Pressurization options
- Pressure supply sizing
- Pressure fed system design
- Turbopump fed system design
- Pump design
- Turbine design
- Alternate pump designs
- III.
Thrust Chamber
Analysis and Modeling
- Overview
- Chamber Flow Fields
- Conventional flows
- Advanced flow fields
- Nozzles
- Theory and analysis
- Conical and bell nozzles
- Plug and spike nozzles
- Nozzle analysis and
simulation tools
- Chambers
- Combustion chemistry
- Combustion analysis tools
- Combustion process
- Combustion performance
- IV.
Rocket Chamber
Stability
- History of Combustion Stability
- Modern Rocket Chamber Stability
- Waveforms
- Empirical data
- Analysis
- Results and predictions
- Instability mitigation
- Historical trial and error
- Resonators and baffles
- Modern mitigation approaches
- V.
Chamber Design
- Chamber Design Approach and
Issues
- Thermal management issues
- Cooling techniques
- Combustion management
- Ablative Chamber Design
- Ablative cooling process
- Ablative materials
- Ablative chamber fabrication
- Regenerative Chamber Design
- Regen cooling process
- Regen design and analysis
- Regen chamber fabrication
- VI.
Injector Design
- Requirements and Issues
- Combustion performance
- Throttling
- Stability
- Impinging Elements
- Analysis
- Sizing
- Pintle Elements
- Analysis
- Sizing
- Swirl Elements
- Analysis
- Sizing
- Manifold Design
- Injector Fabrication
- VII.
Rocket Performance
- Analysis
- Efficiency calculations
- Loss calculations
- Testing
- Traditional test approach
- Modern test approach
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