Rocket Propulsion I

• Course Outline

• Handouts
  • General Information
    • Rocket Propulsion Terminology
    • Inversion of the Stodola Relation for the Supersonic Case
    • Lecture Notes
    • Solid Propellant Rocket Motors
       
• Assignments  
• Problem Set 1
  • Definitions and Fundamentals
• Problem Set 2
• Nozzle Theory and Thermodynamic Relations
• Problem Set 3
  • Heat Transfer Analysis of Rocket Systems
• Problem Set 4
  • Flight Performance
• Problem Set 5
  • Liquid Propellant Rocket Engine Fundamentals
• Problem Set 6
  • Liquid Propellants
• Problem Set 7
  • Combustion of Liquid Propellants
• Problem Set 8
  • Solid Propellants
• Problem Set 9
  • Solid Propellant Rocket Fundamentals
     
• Contributors
  • Kazimierz Siemienowicz (c.1600-c.1651)
  • William Congreve (1772-1828)
  • Gustaf de Laval (1845-1913)
  • Nikolai Kibalchich (1850-1881)
  • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) (see 1, see also Rocket Equation)
  • Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963) (see 1)
  • Robert Goddard (1882-1945) (see also)
  • G. I. Taylor (1886-1975) (see also Taylor Cone)
  • Friedrich Zander (1887-1933) (see also GRID)
  • Rudolf Nebel (1894-1978)
  • Herman Oberth (1894-1989) (see 1, 2, 3)
  • Max Valier (1895-1930) (see also)
  • Yuri Kondratyuk (1897-1942)
  • Fritz von Opel (1899-1971) (see RAK1, Ente)
  • Friedrich Sander (1885-1938)
  • Karel Bossart (1904-1975)
  • Sergei Korolev (1907-1966)
  • Klaus Riedel (1907-1944)
  • Alelsei Mihailovich Isaev (1908-1971)
  • Valentin Glushko (1908-1989)
  • Loius Dunn (1908-1979)
  • Luigi Crocco (1909-1986)
  • Leonid Dushkin (1910-1990)
  • Walter Thiel (1910-1943)
  • William Hayward Pickering (1910-2004)
  • Tsien Hsue-shen (1911-2009)
  • Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) (see also)
  • Frank Malina (1912-1981)
  • Vladimir Chelomei (1914-1984)
  • Jack Parsons (1914-1952)
  • Helmut Göttrup (1916-1981) (see also Gorodomlya Island 1, 2)
  • Jim Chamberlin (1915-1981)
  • Vasily Mishin (1917-2001)
  • Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (1919-1971)
  • Maxime A. Faget (1921-2004)
  • Alan Shepard (1923-1998)
  • Victor Makeev (1924-1985) (see also Makeyev OKB)
  • Virgil "Gus" Grissom (1926-1967)
  • Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968)
  • Neil Armstrong (1930-present)
  • APJ Abdul Kalam (1931-present)
  • Von Karman's approach to research--as described by Bill Sears
  • Robert Geisler
  • F. E. C. Culick (see 1, 2)
  • William A. Sirignano
  • Charles Mitchell
     
• Terms and Definitions
  • Tsiolkovsky's Rocket Equation
  • Thrust
  • Momentum
  • Specific Impulse
  • Mass Fraction
  • Mass Ratio
  • Nozzle
  • De Laval Nozzle
  • Choked Flow
  • Mass Flow Rate
  • Plug Nozzle
  • Expanding Nozzle
  • Aerospike Engine
  • Regenerative Cooling
  • Turbopump
  • Rocket Engine
  • Chemical Reaction
  • Solid Fuel Rocket
  • Solid Rocket Booster
  • Liquid Rocket
  • Hybrid Rocket
  • Monopropellant Rocket
  • Monopropellant
  • Hydrazine
  • Hydrogen Peroxide
  • Hight-test Peroxide (HTP)
  • Bipropellant Rocket
  • Oxidizer
  • Redox
  • Oxygen
  • Oxidation Number
  • Liquid Oxygen (LOX)
  • Liquid Hydrogen
  • Rocket Fuel
  • Alcohol
  • Kerosene
  • RP-1
  • Hypergolic
  • Nitrogen Tetroxide (Dinitrogen Tetroxide)
  • UDMH
  • Monomethylhydrazine (MMH)
  • Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH)
  • Aerozine 50
  • Red Fuming Nitric Acid (RFNA and IRFNA)
  • UH 25
  • Tripropellant Rocket
  • Explosive Bolt (Pyrotechnic Fastener)
  • Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
  • Geostationary Orbit (GEO)
  • Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)
  • Staging Rocketry
  • Single Stage to Orbit
  • Two Stage to Orbit
  • Three Stage to Orbit
  • Atmospheric Re-entry
  • Hohmann Transfer Orbit
  • Apsis
     
• Papers
  • My Memoirs of Solid Propellant Development at the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory
  • Eaton Canyon: A History of Rocket Motor Research and Development in the CalTech-NDRC-Navy Rocket Program, 1941-1946
  • Launch Vehicle Historical Reliability
  • Large Space Solid Rocket Motors in Europe - Past and Future Developments
     
• More Information

• Some References
  • Rocketry
    • Rocket Propulsion Elements
    • How to Design, Build, and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines
    • Easy PVC Rockets
       
  • Chemistry and Propellants
    • Advances in Chemical Propulsion: Science to Technology
    • Propellants and Explosives: Thermochemical Aspects of Combustion
    • Shockwaves and Explosions
    • Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics
       
  • Space
    • Encyclopedia of Space and Technology