Rocket Propulsion Elements

GEORGE P. SUTTON is a consultant for the aerospace industry. He formerly served as Executive Director of Engineering at Rocketdyne (now The Boeing Company) and as a Laboratory Associate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. OSCAR BIBLARZ is a Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Classification; definitions and fundamentals; nozzle theory and thermodynamic relations; flight performance; chemical rocket propellant performance analysis; liquid propellant rocket engine fundamentals; liquid propellants; thrust chambers; combustion of liquid propellants; turbopumps, engine design, engine controls, calibration, integration and optimization; solid propellant rocket fundamentals; solid propellants; combustion of solid propellants; solid rocket components and motor design; hybrid propellant rockets; thrust vector control; selection of rocket propulsion systems; rocket exhaust plumes; electric propulsion; rocket testing.