This page cover the following topics related to
Propulsion : Introduction, Rocket Nozzles and Thrust, Ideal Nozzle Fluid
Mechanics, Nozzle Design, Convective Heat Transfer, Liquid Cooling, Ablative
Cooling, Film Cooling, Radiation Heat Transfer and Cooling, Review of
Equilibrium Thermochemistry, Non-Equilibrium Flows, Selection of Propellant
Mixtures, Solid Propellants: Design Goals and Constraints, Solid Propellants:
Other Topics, Liquid Propellants, Combustion of Liquid Propellants, Liquid
Motors, Acoustics, Pressurization and Pump Cycles, Basic Turbomachine
Performance, Turbopumps, Turbines, Mechanical Design of Turbomachinery,
Rotordynamics Problems, Dynamics of Turbopump Systems: The Shuttle Engine,
Active Control of Rockets, Orbital Mechanics: Review, Staging, Performance to
LEO, Performance to GEO, Impulsive and Low-Thrust Maneuvers in Space, Future
Developments.
Author(s): Prof. Manuel Martinez-Sanchez, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
This note covers
introduction to spacecraft Propulsion, Basic propulsion equations, Spacecraft
propulsion systems survey and spacecraft propulsion system selection.
Propulsion (Lat. pro-pellere, push forward) is
making a body to move (against natural forces), i.e. fighting against the
natural tendency of relative-motion to decay. Motion is relative to an
environment. Sometimes, propulsion is identified with thrust, the force pushing
a body to move against natural forces, and one might say that propulsion is
thrust (but thrust not necessary implies motion, as when pushing against a wall;
on the other hand, propulsion implies thrust).This PDF covers the following
topics related to Propulsion : Air-breathing Engines, Inlets and Combustion
Chambers, Nozzles, Compressors, Turbines.
Author(s): Dr. Maruthupandiyan, Associate Professor, Institute
of Aeronautical Engineering
This note explains the following
topics:Introduction to Aircraft Jet Propulsion, Jet Engine Cycles :
Thermodynamic Analysis of real cycles, Compressors and Turbines, Combustion
Systems, Intakes and Propelling Nozzles, Aircraft Engine Installed Performance,
Sizing and Matching, Ramjets, Scramjets and Pulsejets.
Author(s): Prof.
Bhaskar Roy and Prof. A M Pradeep