AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING


ROCKET AND SPACE PROPULSION



UNIT-I       FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMICAL ROCKET PROPULSION              

Operating principle – specific impulse of a rocket – internal ballistics – performance considerations of rockets – types of igniters- preliminary concepts in nozzle-less propulsion – air augmented rockets – pulse rocket motors – static testing of rockets & instrumentation –safety considerations


UNIT-II           SOLID ROCKET PROPULSION                                                   

Salient features of solid propellant rockets – selection criteria of solid propellants – estimation of solid propellant adiabatic flame temperature - propellant grain design considerations – erosive burning in solid propellant rockets – combustion instability – strand burner and T-burner – applications and advantages of solid propellant rockets


UNIT-III        LIQUID ROCKET PROPULSION         

                        

Salient features of liquid propellant rockets – selection of liquid propellants – various feed systems and injectors for liquid propellant rockets -thrust control and cooling in liquid propellant rockets and the associated heat transfer problems – combustion instability in liquid propellant rockets – peculiar problems associated with operation of cryogenic engines.

UNIT-IV        HYBRID ROCKET PROPULSION                                                       

Introduction to hybrid rocket propulsion – standard and reverse hybrid systems- combustion mechanism in hybrid propellant rockets – applications and limitations


UNIT-V           ADVANCED PROPULSION TECHNIQUES     

                         

Electric rocket propulsion– types of electric propulsion techniques - Ion propulsion – Nuclear rocket –comparison of performance of these propulsion systems with chemical rocket propulsion systems –future applications of electric propulsion systems - Solar sail