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Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS
1 Introduction (PDF)
2 Rocket Nozzles and Thrust (PDF)
3 Ideal Nozzle Fluid Mechanics (PDF)
4-5 Nozzle Design: Method of Characteristics (PDF)
6 Effects of Particles in Nozzle Flow (PDF)
7 Convective Heat Transfer: Reynolds Analogy (PDF)
8 Convective Heat Transfer: Other Effects (PDF)
9 Liquid Cooling (PDF)
10 Ablative Cooling, Film Cooling (PDF)
11 Radiation Heat Transfer and Cooling (PDF - 1 MB)
12 Review of Equilibrium Thermochemistry (PDF)
13 Examples of Chemical Equilibrium (PDF)
14 Non-Equilibrium Flows (PDF)
15 Selection of Propellant Mixtures (PDF)
16 Solid Propellants: Design Goals and Constraints (PDF)
17-18 Solid Propellants: Other Topics (PDF)
19 Liquid Propellants (PDF)
20 Combustion of Liquid Propellants (PDF)
21 Liquid Motors: Injection and Mixing (PDF)
22 Liquid Motors: Stability (Low Frequency) (PDF)
23 Liquid Motors: Stability (High Frequency); Acoustics (PDF)
24 Pressurization and Pump Cycles (PDF)
25 Basic Turbomachine Performance (PDF)
26 Turbopumps (PDF)
27 Turbines (PDF)
28 Mechanical Design of Turbomachinery (PDF)
29 Rotordynamics Problems (PDF)
30 Dynamics of Turbopump Systems: The Shuttle Engine (PDF)
31 Active Control of Rockets
32 Orbital Mechanics: Review, Staging (PDF)
33 Performance to LEO (PDF)
34 Performance to GEO (PDF)
35-36 Impulsive and Low-Thrust Maneuvers in Space (PDF)
37 Future Developments (PDF)