Chemical Rockets
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Chemical Rockets
£7.25
Topics in this product include the rocket equation and staging, turbopump types and difficulties, hybrid propulsion systems including SABRE, mission requirements across thruster types, and propulsion system design from blowdown systems to nozzle throat sizing.
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PropulsionPage-by-page contents
Propulsion
Page-by-page contents
- 01Mission requirements, types of chemical thrusters, cold gas, monopropellant, bipropellant, solid
- 02Specific impulse vs thrust of different types of engines
- 03Derivation of rocket equation, specific impulse, efficiency
- 04Chemical rocket equation, electric rocket equation, thrust efficiency
- 05Example
- 06Chemical rockets, effective exhaust velocity, characteristic velocity, thrust coefficient, specific impulse
- 07Propulsion system design, blowdown system, pressurised feed systems, propellant tanks
- 08Finite burn losses, orbit trim, interplanetary delta V, attitude control
- 09Example
- 10Types of rockets: cold gas, warm gas, monopropellant thrusters, bi-propellant systems, mixture ratio
- 11Types of rockets: solid rocket motors, hybrid rockets, resistojets
- 12Propulsion basics, chemical rocket thrust, thrust coefficient, exit velocity derivation
- 13Nozzle throat area, nozzle expansion ratio, mass flow rate, characteristic velocity, specific impulse
- 14Rockets, rocket dynamics, rocket equation derivation, staging, velocity during final stage
- 15Problems with rocket engines, specific impulse, classes of rocket engines
- 16Cold jets, hot gas jets, pressure-fed liquid fuel rocket motor
- 17Solid-fuel rocket motor, common propellant mixes, flame temperature, casting shape, burn rate, chamber pressure, particle size
- 18Turbopumps, expansion turbopump, gas generator turbopump, staged-combustion turbopump, aspirating turbopump
- 19Difficulties with turbopumps, thermodynamic analysis, hydrogen cycle, oxygen cycle
- 20Turbopump continued, propellant loads, flow rate, heating, nozzle problem, hybrid rocket engine
- 21Comparing engines, rocket equation, high-altitude research projects (HARP)
- 22Hybrid propulsion systems: air turboramjet expander cycle, brayton cycle precooling, turbojet precooling
- 23Hybrid propulsion systems: mass-injection pre-compression cooling, ramjet precooling, SABRE, pulse jet