Handbook of Aerospace Propulsion Engineering

Fundamentals and Advanced Design of Liquid, Solid, and Hybrid Rocket Engines

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Harry D. James

Verlag:

Independently Published

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36538487

EAN: 9798189945236

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mi, 02.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 121.–

Beschreibung

A liquid engine's turbopump, a solid motor's propellant grain, and a hybrid motor's fuel port are usually taught from three different books, in three different notations, by three different authors. Engineers moving between chemical rocket propulsion specialties often find that the literature was never written to be read together: a text strong on liquid engine cycles says little about solid-motor internal ballistics, and a text built around solid propellant grain design rarely shares consistent notation with a hybrid motor discussion. That fragmentation slows down exactly the engineers and students who need to move fluidly between propellant families, not just master one of them. This handbook builds a single, consistently notated foundation - from the control-volume derivation of the thrust equation and compressible nozzle flow through the complete design of liquid, solid, and hybrid rocket engines, the vehicle-level systems that surround them, and a closing survey of the propulsion technologies now emerging alongside them. What This Book CoversDerive the thrust equation and specific impulse from first principles, and carry that same notation forward through every later chapter without re-explanation. Work through compressible flow and nozzle gas dynamics, and propellant thermochemistry, as the shared foundation for every propellant family covered later. Study complete liquid rocket engine design: feed systems and engine cycles, thrust chambers, injectors and cooling, turbopump architecture, and combustion stability. Study complete solid and hybrid motor design: grain design and internal ballistics, propellant chemistry and structural design, hybrid motor configurations, and shared nozzle and thrust-vector-control design. Apply vehicle- and system-level engineering common to every chemical propellant family: flight performance and trajectory analysis, propellant storage and pressurization, and engine systems integration and control. Follow propulsion system testing and health monitoring, from facility systems and instrumentation through automated failure detection, and study the engineering of reusable propulsion system refurbishment. Work every chapter's fully worked numerical examples and boxed-answer practice problems, and close with a survey of emerging propulsion technology and cross-family selection judgment. Key topics:. Thrust and specific impulse derivation; compressible flow and nozzle gas dynamics; propellant thermochemistry; complete liquid rocket engine design; turbopump design; nozzle contour design and thrust vector control; combustion instability; solid propellant grain design and internal ballistics; solid propellant chemistry, structural design, and manufacturing; hybrid rocket motors; engine systems integration and control; flight performance and trajectory analysis; propellant storage, tankage, and pressurization; propulsion system testing, instrumentation, and health monitoring; reusability and refurbishment; and emerging propulsion technologies. Who this book is for:. Written for upper-level engineering students and practicing propulsion engineers who need a single, rigorously derived, consistently notated reference spanning liquid, solid, and hybrid chemical rocket propulsion - a dependable desk reference rather than a shelf of narrower specialty texts. Get your copy and start connecting every propellant family - and every stage from first-principles derivation to flight-qualified hardware - to the same rigorous foundation.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Harry D. James

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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