Space Propulsion

Course content

Functional requirements of aerospace propulsive devices. Mission analysis. Fundamental performance relations. Rocket propulsion systems for launch, orbital, and interplanetary flight. Modeling of solid, liquid-bipropellant, and hybrid rocket engines. Engineering and environmental limitations. Propellant feed systems, turbopumps. Combustion processes in liquid, solid and hybrid rockets. Thermochemistry, prediction of specific impulse. Nozzle flows including real gas and kinetic effects.